HY 106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Grand National Consolidated Trades Union, Continental System, Cotton Gin
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The industrial revolution (with a brief bit of napoleon: napoleon in fifteen minutes. Cotton, steam, iron, and rails: the consequence of industrialization. Key terms: code napoleon (code civil, continental system, waterloo, richard arkwright, eli whitney, cotton gin. Political and legal reforms that consolidated the gains of the revolution. When he took power he sat down a group of lawyers to take the constitution and write down a new concise set of laws based on the ideals of the revolution and the third estate. He brings the tax roles from the provinces to series of wars that brought france to rule vast amounts of land. 2 events lead us to the rest of his empire. 1) battle of trafalgar: napoleon had plans to invade england but was defeated at trafalgar so he was unable to invade that year. 2) battle at austerlitz: he won this battle. Paris, makes peace with the catholic church peace with the pope.
