HIST 125 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Social Darwinism, Carl Linnaeus, Industrial Revolution
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Canada entices its people to live along rail line to prove that there are canadians there. Brazil outlaw slavers in 1830, by 1880s abolished slavery but do not offer citizenship, going to cause problems later on. Otto von bismarck operation while us is having civil war, brazils free black population, unifications in germany and italy, conflicts of crown of auto hungarian crowns. Steel stronger than iron, less brittle, outweighs iron. Fairly cheap to produce and transport, steal gets the ir (mills, trains, smoke in london) started bc of steel, coal industry, iron industry, railway industry all expanding, railroads expanding at higher speeds. Charles darwin failed cleric, not suited to be a pastor, ill with some kind of maloti, disables him later in life. Naturalism, tags along on voyage to southern pacific. Boards the hms beagle to voyage to the galapagos islands tracks finches, different beaks for different foods. Theory of evolution a species adapts to survive.