Chapter 21 Review: Important Events
| 1830–1832 | Cholera epidemic sweeps across Europe |
| 1830 | France invades and begins conquest of Algeria |
| 1832 | George Sand, Indiana |
| 1833 | Factory Act regulates work of children in Great Britain; abolition of slavery in British Empire |
| 1834 | German Zollverein is established under Prussian leadership |
| 1835 | Belgium opens first continental railway built with state funds |
| 1839 | Beginning of Opium War; invention of photography |
| 1841 | Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop |
| 1846 | Famine strikes Ireland; Corn Laws are repealed in England; peasant insurrection in Austrian province of Galicia |
| 1848 | Revolutions of 1848 throughout Europe; last great wave of Chartist demonstrations in Britain; Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto; abolition of slavery in French colonies; end of serfdom in Austrian Empire |
| 1851 | Crystal Palace exhibition in London |
Consider three events: Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop (1841), Revolutions of 1848 throughout Europe (1848), and Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto (1848). How do these events represent different responses to the changes wrought by the Industrial Revolution?