Industrial Revolution

Question 1

What were some of the gainz from the French Revolution?

Answer 1

1. Political and Legal Equality
2. Constitutions and Popular Sovereignty
3. Nationalism and Citizenship
4. Modern Politics: Reversal of the Leadership
5. The Notion that we can revolt!

Question 2

What was the Impact of the Industrialism?

Answer 2

1. The Great Diveergence: Economic Expansion and Global Economic Shift as the New World is exploited
2. Mechanization and mass production
3. Breakdown of skilled craftsmanship
4. New social identities (bourgeois and proletariat)
5. Socialism starts to catch on!
6. Faster communication and transportation

Question 3

What are the two pillars of the modern world?

Answer 3

1. French Revolution
2. Industrial Revolution: Created a technological boom!

• Both of these pillars are ambiguous s far as their legacies. French revolution was awesome but bloody. Industrial Revolution messed up the distribution of wealth. Bourgeoisie are the new political leaders

Question 4

Discuss the Malthusian Trap

Answer 4

Theory made by Thomas Malthus regarding the anthropocene era (the age of man), who was obsessed with sex. The theory basically said that humans are expanding at a rate greater than the renewability of resources, and once we exceed our resources, we will ultimately die. However, the agricultural revolution occurred, and we managed for a couple more centuries.

Question 5

What were the conditions that preceded the industrial revolution

Answer 5

1. Change of population demographic: BIG cities full of smaller families
2. Agricultural Productivity
3. Open British government with good representation and property protection. Super capitalist
4. Commercial wealth and entrepreneurial culture
5. Lots of science and technological innovation

Question 6

Name a couple big names that were built on the backs of slaves

Answer 6

Barclay’s Bank: based off a sugar foundation, which financed James Watt’s steam engine, plus textile factories
Codrington Library in Oxford university was funded by slave owners

Question 7

What is import substitution, and what is an example of it within the industrial revolution?

Answer 7

Basically, Britain sucks. Import substitution is based on the premise that you should stimulate your national economy by buying local. They created a demand for cotton by importing it from India (Calico Act) and then banned Indian cotton imports until British cotton plants could keep up. When they did remove the ban, the textile industry in Britain had taken off so the market was flooded, and the Indians were still taxed at like 80%. Gross.

Question 8

What was it that helped Britain get so far ahead?

Answer 8

1. Scientific Revolution: Where the French were obsessed with figuring out why and whether or not we exist, Britain was more concerned with technological progress.
2. Accident and luck: Britain just HAPPENED to be on one of the biggest coal supplies in the world. Great for energy production and progress!
3. Mechanized industries: Where things used to be made one at a time by locals, machines seized means of production by being 50x more efficient

Question 9

What was the cultural impact of the railway

Answer 9

You can get EVERYWHERE in a much shorter time! You got to know a bunch of different cultures, and you can trade like, everywhere! Instead of the church, the train station became the most central, magnificent building in the city. This was also the first time that time became standardized.