1. The Restoration & The eighteenth Century

2. Restoration Charles II restored to throne in 1660
Liked ceremony and lavish living
James II takes throne after Charles’ death

4. Glorious Revolution James II (Charles’ brother) takes throne in 1685
Parliament asked Charles’ daughter Mary and husband William to replace James
Called the Glorious Revolution because there was no bloodshed

6. Industrial Revolution
More people living in town
New class distinctions begin to emerge
Factory owners were “capitalists”—a higher social class than workers

7. Growing Pains The Plague killed 70,000 in 1665
A fire in 1666 destroyed 13,000 houses and 88 churches in four days

9. Positive Growth
Laws of gravity and motion discovered by Isaac Newton, who also invented Calculus!
James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny
James Watt invented the steam engine
The “bluestockings” helped change views of women

10. Food and Fashion
Food prices rose; men sent their wives out in mobs to harass farmers into lowering grain prices
Poor people invented toast because they couldn’t spread butter on bread in their cold houses
Lighter colors became popular, along with flowing fabric
French King Louis XIV introduced the wig