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Interactive Timeline – Industrialization and Its Discontents, 1765-1905

The events listed in the right column are out of order. First, place the events in correct order by dragging and dropping each event so it matches the correct year on the timeline.

Once you have placed all items in the correct order please complete the self-quiz below.

1765

1830

1848

1859

1869

1872

1874

1879

1884

1900

1901

1903

1905

correct incorrect James Watt improves the steam engine

correct incorrect First passenger railroad opened between Liverpool and Manchester

correct incorrect Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish The Communist Manifesto

correct incorrect Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection

correct incorrect Opening of the Suez Canal; transcontinental railroad completed in the United States

correct incorrect Claude Monet paints Impression, Sunrise

correct incorrect Siegfried Marcus perfects the first internal combustion automobile

correct incorrect Thomas Edison perfects the incandescent lightbulb

correct incorrect Hiram Maxim invents the first fully automatic machine gun

correct incorrect Sigmund Freud publishes The Interpretation of Dreams

correct incorrect Guglielmo Marconi sends first transatlantic radio message

correct incorrect Wright Brothers achieve first engine-powered sustained flight

correct incorrect Albert Einstein publishes theory of relativity

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1. Put these inventions in the correct chronological order:

A. Radio, airplane, automobile, lightbulb, machine gun B. Machine gun, lightbulb, automobile, airplane, radio *C. Automobile, lightbulb, machine gun, radio, airplane D. Lightbulb, radio, airplane, machine gun, automobile

2. Put these social-cultural developments in their corrrect chronological order:

*A. Communist Manifesto, On the Origin of Species, Impression Sunrise, Interpretation of Dreams, theory of relativity B. On the origin of Species, Impression Sunrise, Communist Manifesto, Interpretation of Dreams, theory of relativity C. Interpretation of Dreams, Communist Manifesto, On the Origin of Species, Impression Sunrise, theory of relativity D. theory of relativity, Communist Manifesto, On the Origin of Species, Impression Sunrise, Interpretation of Dreams

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