CH. 21 Flashcards

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Industrialization drove changes in

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  1. Labor practices
  2. Economic ideologies
  3. Emergence of a new working class of people
  4. The mass migration of laborers to the urban centers
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What led to the key inventions which drove the development of the industrial revolution

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Textile industry

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3
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A Scottish engineer developed an efficient steam engine in 1776

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James Watt

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4
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England became the first site of the Industrial revolution for 3 key factors

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  1. Private investment capital from overseas trade and commercial profits
  2. Access to raw materials, namely cotton
  3. Necessary natural resources at home such as coal and iron
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Working class referred to

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Laborers in the new factories

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Labor unions goal will always be

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Safe and sanitary working conditions, a decent wage, and standard work week

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Urbanization

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The growth of towns and cities due to the movement of people from rural to urban areas

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Because people didn’t understand the causes of cholera and typhus epidemics

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Authorities in most European countries set up public health agencies to coordinate and study sanitation conditions in cites

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9
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In the 1830s, cities half the populations depended on _____________ to make ends meet

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Public welfare, charity or criminality

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10
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Charles Dickens books reflect the difficult times

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Oliver Twist
A Christmas Carol

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11
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Reformers depicted the lower classes as

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Drunken, disorderly, and dangerously lacking in sexual control

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A coherent set of beliefs about the way the social and political order should be organized

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Ideology

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A people derive their identities from their nations, the most potent of the new ideologies.

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Nationalism

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Socialism

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Social, political and economic doctrine that calls for public rather than private ownership or control of property and natural resources essential to society

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An ideology that advocates for the elimination/abolition of private property in favor of communal ownership

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Communism

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16
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In 1848, who published the communist manifesto

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Karl Marx and Charles Engels

17
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Karl Marx central argument

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Class struggle

18
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According to Marx, class inequality, the means of production

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The haves vs the have nots

19
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Max and Engle envisioned workers

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Taking over the means of production and eventual development of a communist state

20
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Charles Darwin English novelist in 1859

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On the Origin of Species

21
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Primary mechanism of evolution

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Natural selection

22
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Darwin’s theory primarily Applies

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Plants and animals

23
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Theory wholeheartedly embraced it as undisputed facts

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The academic elite

24
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Without _____, morality is never more fluid

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Absolutes of Christianity

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The revolution of 1848
Food shortages, overpopulation and unemployment
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1 million died of starvation and disease, another 2 million migrated to England, Canada, and the U.S.
Ireland
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The new French republican government immediately issued several reforms.
1. End to the death penalty for political crimes 2. Abolished slavery in the colonies 3. Freedom of press 4. Universal male suffrage 5. First presidential election in French history
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In Frances first presidential election
Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte
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For the Germans, the goal of ________ took precedence over social reform or constitutional changes
Unification
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The revolution of 1848 brought to the surface the profound tensions within a European society in transition toward
Industrialization and Urbanization