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Chapter 17 Revolution of Industrialization

The Industrial Revolution is an era where human response the endlessly renewable fossil fuels such as coal, oil , and natural gas replaced the endlessly renewable energy sources of wind , water, wood, and the muscle power of people and animals. This impact the environment the massive extraction of nonrenewable raw materials to feed and to fuel industrial machinery, coal, iron ore, petroleum,guano, and much more altered the landscape in many places. The British textile industry, which used 52 million pounds of cotton in 1800, consumed 588 million pounds in 1850. Britain's output of coal soared from 5.23 million tons in 1750 to 68.4 million tons a century later.

Chapter 16 (Echoes through end)

 In 1780-1890 Slavery was abolition ,Enlightenment thinkers in eighteenth-century Europe had increasingly critical of slavery as a violation of the natural rights of every person .Slavery in this view was out of date, unnecessary in the new era of industrial technology and capitalism. The successful Haitian Revolution was followed by three major rebellions in the British West Indies. The Atlantic revolutions also gave new prominence to a relatively recent kind of hum community . By the end of the 20th century , the idea that humankind was divided into separate nations, each with distinct culture and territory and deserving and independent political life.  Atlantic revolution lay in the emergence of a feminist movement . European Enlightenment had challenged traditions, including women's intrinsic inferiority .  

Chapter 16 (1st 2sections)

The Atlantic Revolution started when British government start having conflicts in European wars. Britain's West Indian colonies would make profitable and greater signifinance  than those in North America. Englishmen had birthrights almost no one in the colonies thought of breaking away from England because British Empire provided many advantages such as protection in war.  Atlantic revolution took place in France as well. French soldiers had provided assistance to the American colonists the French government aided the Americans  in effort to undermine its British rivals .