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Though many countries were liberated through revolutions both political and scientific, workers, slaves, and the poor were continually treated with malice and disregard.

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Serfs in Russia were extremely poor and uneducated. They had very few rights and were treated as if they were slaves.

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Though Catherine the Great was an advocate for educating the people of Russia, she made no attempts to free or protect the most uneducated of her subjects, the serfs. As Catherine once said, "If Russians knew how to read, they would write me off."

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The American Revolution, a Sign of Progress

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The American Revolution, a Sign of Progress

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"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed, by their Creator, with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness." -Thomas Jefferson

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Slavery in the United States Continues to Grow

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Slavery in the United States Continues to Grow

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Before the French Revolution, commoners made up the majority of France's population, yet were treated poorly.

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The French Revolution aimed to take power away from the tyrannical monarchs that once ruled, marking a time of progress for France.

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Many new inventions came out of Great Britain, including the flying shuttle pictured below.

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Many children had to work long hours for little pay. Work in factories was often dangerous, even for adults.

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"Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guild-master and journeyman...modern bourgeois society that has sprouted from the ruins of feudal society has not done away with class antagonisms. It has but established new classes, new conditions of oppression, new forms of struggle in place of the old ones." -Karl Marx in "The Communist Manifesto"

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In 1848, after "The Communist Manifesto" gained traction, workers started revolutions in Germany, France, and the Austrian Empire.