CH. 21 Flashcards
Industrialization drove changes in
- Labor practices
- Economic ideologies
- Emergence of a new working class of people
- The mass migration of laborers to the urban centers
What led to the key inventions which drove the development of the industrial revolution
Textile industry
A Scottish engineer developed an efficient steam engine in 1776
James Watt
England became the first site of the Industrial revolution for 3 key factors
- Private investment capital from overseas trade and commercial profits
- Access to raw materials, namely cotton
- Necessary natural resources at home such as coal and iron
Working class referred to
Laborers in the new factories
Labor unions goal will always be
Safe and sanitary working conditions, a decent wage, and standard work week
Urbanization
The growth of towns and cities due to the movement of people from rural to urban areas
Because people didn’t understand the causes of cholera and typhus epidemics
Authorities in most European countries set up public health agencies to coordinate and study sanitation conditions in cites
In the 1830s, cities half the populations depended on _____________ to make ends meet
Public welfare, charity or criminality
Charles Dickens books reflect the difficult times
Oliver Twist
A Christmas Carol
Reformers depicted the lower classes as
Drunken, disorderly, and dangerously lacking in sexual control
A coherent set of beliefs about the way the social and political order should be organized
Ideology
A people derive their identities from their nations, the most potent of the new ideologies.
Nationalism
Socialism
Social, political and economic doctrine that calls for public rather than private ownership or control of property and natural resources essential to society
An ideology that advocates for the elimination/abolition of private property in favor of communal ownership
Communism
In 1848, who published the communist manifesto
Karl Marx and Charles Engels
Karl Marx central argument
Class struggle
According to Marx, class inequality, the means of production
The haves vs the have nots
Max and Engle envisioned workers
Taking over the means of production and eventual development of a communist state
Charles Darwin English novelist in 1859
On the Origin of Species
Primary mechanism of evolution
Natural selection
Darwin’s theory primarily Applies
Plants and animals
Theory wholeheartedly embraced it as undisputed facts
The academic elite
Without _____, morality is never more fluid
Absolutes of Christianity