Ch. 5.1 The Growth of Industrial Prosperity

Question 1

assembly line

Answer 1

new manufacturing method pioneered by Henry Ford in 1913. efficient

Question 2

mass production

Answer 2

larger and more efficient manufacturing of goods. allowed by assembly line.

Question 3

proletariat

Answer 3

working class (Marx came up with it)

Question 4

dictatorship

Answer 4

gov’t in which a person or a small group has absolute power

Question 5

revisionist

Answer 5

Marxist who rejected the idea of violent revolution. argue that socialism could be achieved through parliamentary system.

Question 6

(a) generator

Answer 6

“In the 1870s, the first practical GENERATORS of electrical current were developed.”

Question 7

(a) transform

Answer 7

“Electricity TRANSFORMED the factory as well.”

Question 8

(a) emerge

Answer 8

“Socialist parties EMERGED after 1870, but their theory for a new society came largely from Karl Marx.”

Question 9

(p) Thomas Edison

Answer 9

American. creation of lightbulb.

Question 10

(p) Alexander Graham Bell

Answer 10

invented telephone in 1876

Question 11

(p) Guglielmo Marconi

Answer 11

sent first radio waves across Atlantic in 1901

Question 12

(p) Karl Marx

Answer 12

influential theorist. {The Communist Manifesto} coauthor: Friedrich Engels.—denounce new economy, workers’ revolution, oppressor v. oppressed, struggle-proletariat overthrow bourgeoisie, dictatorship creates socialist economy, classless society

Question 13

(pl) the Netherlands

Answer 13

part of advanced industrialized European nations—as result of Second Industrial Revolution

Question 14

(pl) Spain

Answer 14

part of largely agricultural and lower standard living European nations—as a result of Second Industrial Revolution

Question 15

(pl) Portugal

Answer 15

part of largely agricultural and lower standard living European nations—as a result of Second Industrial Revolution

Question 16

(pl) Russia

Answer 16

part of largely agricultural and lower standard living European nations—as a result of Second Industrial Revolution

Question 17

(pl) Austria-Hungary

Answer 17

part of largely agricultural and lower standard living European nations—as a result of Second Industrial Revolution