Brainscape's Knowledge GenomeTM


Top Flashcards (Certified)
All Flashcards

Honors Modern World History 2023-2024 > Industrial Revolution > Flashcards

Industrial Revolution Flashcards

1
Q

Industrial Revolution

A

Greatly increases the output of machine made goods that began in England in the 18th century

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
2
Q

Agricultural Revolution

A

Cause of IR: larger farms, more production, fewer laborers needed, population growth.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
3
Q

Jethro Tull

A

invented the seed drill

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
4
Q

Crop Rotation

A

Improvements on the medieval three field method: Provided much better crop yields

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
5
Q

Livestock Breeding

A

Selective breeding helped create better breeds and improved food production.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
6
Q

Population Shifts

A

Because of the agriculture revolution, large number of former moved to the cities to find work.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
7
Q

Why did it start in Britain?

A
  1. Large population for workers
  2. Extensive natural resources
  3. Expanding and stable economy
  4. Political Stability
How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
8
Q

Factors of production

A

Resources needed to produce good and services

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
9
Q

James Hargreaves

A

Inventor of the spinning wheel

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
10
Q

Samuel Cromton

A

Combined the spinning Jenny with water power to make the spinning mule

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
11
Q

Eli Whitney

A

Invented the cotton gin

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
12
Q

James Watt

A

Made vast improvements to the steam engine

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
13
Q

Robert Fulton

A

Build a steamboat. Ferried passengers UP and down the New York’s Hudson river

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
14
Q

Urbanization

A

Growth In population

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
15
Q

Living Conditions

A

Lack of adequate housing, education, police, and infrastructure

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
16
Q

Working conditions

A

Long dangerous days. No government aid in case of injury

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
17
Q

Class tension

A

Growth in the Middle class. Not everyone got the benefits of the Revolution

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
18
Q

Positive effects

A

Creation of more jobs, wealth of nations, general raised. Standard of living and hope that lives could improve

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
19
Q

Corporation

A

Business owned by its stockholders who share in profits, but are not responsible for its debts.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
20
Q

Global inequities

A

Widened the gap between industrialized parts of the world and no-industrialized parts of the world.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
21
Q

Society Transformed

A

Everything from the daily life to life expectancy were affected by industrialization development.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
22
Q

Adam Smith

A

Wrote the Wealth of Nations in 1776 defending the ideas if free markets or a free economy.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
23
Q

Laissez Faire

A

policy that government should leave bushines’s alone.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
24
Q

Invisable hand

A

AS individuals work to meet their own goals, they will be helping do what is best for society as a whole.

25
Capitalism
Economic system where money is invested with goal of making profit.
26
Socialism
Economic system where the factors of production are owned by the public and operate for the good of the people ex. public schools
27
Karl Marx
Argued that human societies were always divided into warring classes. Said that the working class would overtake the middle class.
28
Communism
A form of complete socialism where private property would cease to exist. Nothing is owned privately.
29
Unions
Workers who joined together to press reforms
30
Collective Bargaining
negotiations for better wages and working conditions.
31
Strike
Union members refusing to work in order to shut down a factory.
32
Alexander Graham Bells
Invented the telephone. Instructed deaf students.
33
Thomas Edison
Created in environment to create new things. Patented 1000 inventions including the telephone and the phonograph.
34
Guglielmo Marconi
Invented the first radio
35
Henry Ford
Build automobiles on an assembly line. Mass production.
36
Orrville and Wilber Wright
Bicycle mechanics who were the first to build and fly a successful airplane.
37
Louis Pasteur
Discovered that heat killed bacteria. Made milk safe to drink using "pasteurization.
38
Charles Darwin
Developed the theory of evolution
39
Marie Curie
discovered radioactivity.
40
Imperialism
extension of a nation's power over the other lands
41
British Empire
Great Britain creates the greatest empire ever known.
42
Indirect/direct ruler
Systems set up where either the local rulers would rule with the guidance of the imperial ruler, or be directly ruled over by the imperial ruler.
43
Imperialism's scope
Lands in every continent were acquired by European or American governments.
44
Rise of nationalism
Colonized territories started to become unified behind nation identity in order to fight of the imperialistic countries.
45
Sepoy
Indian Soldiers hired by Great Britain to protect the empires interest.
46
Viceroy
British ruler that was out in charge of colonial possessions
47
Indian National Confernce
Formed by the Sepoy's in 1885 with the demand that they get their Independence from GB
48
Ghandi
Lawyer who took his independence ideas to India. Succeeded in gaining Indian independence.
49
Opium war
China tried to stop Great Britain from importing Opium into their country.
50
Open door policy
Allowed all countries to access China's goods. Started by the US.
51
Boxer Rebellion
Revolt by the Chinese against all of the outsiders taking advantage of China.
52
Sun-Yat-sen
The "Father" of modern China
53
Japan Isolation
Japan had lived in the middle age type society until well into the 19th century.
54
Commodore Perry
U.S. admiral who saild to Japan to open relation to the west.
55
Meiji Restoration
Japan's start to "westernizing" their society.
56
Japan's war with Russia
Japanese armies attack Russian lands in the East in 1904. Japan won, and people were shocked that Japan was know a major power.
57
Social Darwinism
The theory that individuals, groups, and people are subject to the same Darwinism laws of natural selection as plants and animals.
58
Causes of WWI
1. Nationalism: "we are the best" 2. Imperialism: "I want more" 3. Militarism: "Let's settle are differences through war" 4. Alliance System: "I don't want to do this alone"

Honors Modern World History 2023-2024 (3 decks)

Brainscape helps you reach your goals faster, through stronger study habits.
© 2025 Bold Learning Solutions. Terms and Conditions