Age Of Indusrty

Question 1

What was Urbanization?

Answer 1

Urbanization was rapid growth in wealth and social classes and it was directly related to Industrialization and creation of the factory.

Question 2

What was the Agricultural Revolution?

Answer 2

It was one of the factors that led to the Industrial Revolution. There were changes made to farming and stock breeding. Both led to immense increase in food production.

Question 3

What was the Cottage Industry?

Answer 3

The Cottage Industry was the process an industry dedicated to weaving cotton.

Question 4

What were the Enclosure Acts?

Answer 4

The enclosure acts allowed landlords to easily evict their tenants while converting the crop fields to meadows to raise sheep and generate income from their wool. The enclosure movement and new agricultural practices largely destroyed the traditional patterns of English village life.

Question 5

What did James Hargreave invent and what did it do?

Answer 5

James was the inventor of the Spinning Jenny and it enabled spinners to produce yarn in greater quantities.

Question 6

What did Richard Arkwright invent and what did it do?

Answer 6

Richard invented the water frame spinning machine, that was powered by water.

Question 7

What did Edmund Cartwright invent and what did it do?

Answer 7

Edmund invented the Power loom which allowed the weaving of cloth to catch up with the spinning of yarn.

Question 8

Who was James Watts and what did he invent?

Answer 8

James was a Scottish engineer was invented the Steam Engine.

Question 9

What was the steam engine?

Answer 9

The steam engine revolutionized the production of cotton goods and allowed the factory system to spread to other areas of production. It was three times faster than previous engines.

Question 10

What was a Proletariat?

Answer 10

A member of the huge industrial working class.

Question 11

What was a Pig Iron?

Answer 11

Pig iron was the product of smelting iron ore with coke (could heat iron ore faster than charcoal).

Question 12

What was a Wrought Iron?

Answer 12

Wrought Iron was iron of high quality. It had lower carbon content, was malleable and was able to withstand strain.

Question 13

What did Richard Trevithick invent?

Answer 13

Richard pioneered the first steam locomotive that pulled 10 tons of ore and seventy people at five miles per hour.

Question 14

What was Manchesters significance?

Answer 14

Manchester was where one of the first railroad lines opened up.

Question 15

What was the Great Exhibition of 1851?

Answer 15

The Great Exhibition displayed Britain’s wealth to the world, it was a gigantic demonstration on British success. It was a crystal palace that contained 100,000 exhibits that displayed the wide variety of products created by the Industrial Revolution.

Question 16

Who implemented Tariffs during the Industrial Revolution and why?

Answer 16

Governments on the continent implemented tariffs to encour- age industrialization

Question 17

What is a Joint-Stock Investment Bank and why was it significant?

Question 18

Who was Karl Marx and what was one of his pieces?

Question 19

Who was Friedrich Engles?

Question 20

What was the “Communist Manifesto”?

Question 21

What is a Tariff?

Answer 21

A tariff is a tax imposed b y the government on imports or exports.

Question 22

What was the Cartel?

Answer 22

The cartel was where independent enter- prises worked together to control prices and fix production quotas, thereby restraining the kind of competition that led to reduced prices.

Question 23

What was Revisionism?

Question 24

What was Anarchism?

Question 25

What was Mass Society?

Answer 25

The new patterns of industrial production, mass consump- tion, and working-class organization that we identify with the Second Industrial Revolution were only one aspect of the new mass society that emerged in Europe after 1870.

Question 26

What was Mass Education?

Answer 26

Mass education was a product of the mass society of the late nineteenth century. Being “educated” in the early nineteenth century meant attending a secondary school or possibly even a university. After 1850, secondary education was expanded as more middle-class families sought employment in public service and the profes- sions or entry into elite scientific and technical schools.

Question 27

What was Mass Leisure?

Answer 27

Work and leisure became opposites as leisure came to be viewed as what people did for fun when not on the job. In fact, the new leisure hours created by the industrial system—evening hours after work, weekends, and later a week or two in the summer— largely determined the contours of the new mass leisure.

Question 28

Who was Charles X?

Question 29

Who was Louis-Philippe?

Question 30

What did the Reform Act of 1832 do?

Question 31

What was the Revolution of 1830?

Question 32

What was the Revolution of 1848?

Question 33

What was the Poor Act of 1834?

Question 34

What was the Anti Corn Law of 1846?

Question 35

Who were the Tories?

Question 36

Grossdeutsch

Question 37

Kleindeutsch

Question 38

Who was Giuseppe Mazzini?

Question 39

Who was Napoleon III?

Question 40

What was the Crimean War?

Question 41

What was the Battle of Balaklava?

Question 42

Who was Count Camilo di Cavour?

Question 43

Who was Giuseppe Garibaldi?

Question 44

Zollvererin

Question 45

Who was Otto von Bismarck?

Question 46

Realpolitik

Question 47

What was the Danish War of 1864?

Question 48

What was the Austro-Prussian War of 1866?

Question 49

What was the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871?

Question 50

What was Charles Darwin?

Question 51

What was Darwinism?

Question 52

What is Realism?