key concepts chapter 7

Question 1

Industrial revolution

Answer 1

The fast paced change between manual production to mechanical production of goods that had enormous social-economic consequences.

Question 2

Socialism

Answer 2

Political philosophy that devoted to creating equality between classes and orders.

Question 3

Liberalism

Answer 3

A political philosophy in which individual freedom is at front and centre.

Question 4

Nationalism

Answer 4

Love for one’s country or people.

Question 5

Confessionalism

Answer 5

A political-societal movement that has the (Christian) faith as its starting point.

Question 6

Feminism

Answer 6

A political-societal movement that fights for equality and the emancipation of women.

Question 7

Social issues

Answer 7

The labourers issues (=arbeidersvraagstuk).

Question 8

Imperialism

Answer 8

The proces in which European countries want to expand their power territory overseas by discovering new countries and turning them into colonies.

Question 9

Expanding the scale

Answer 9

The process of growth of production per company.

Question 10

Home industry

Answer 10

Activities that can be done, usually manual production and often commissioned by a tradesman.

Question 11

Waterframe

Answer 11

A second generation spinning machine, driven by water power.

Question 12

Mechanisation

Answer 12

Trading in manual labour for mechanical labour.

Question 13

Transport

Answer 13

Taking people and produce from one place to another.

Question 14

Industrial districts

Answer 14

A city that quickly grew enormous because of industrialisation.

Question 15

Urbanisation

Answer 15

A migration process from the country side to cities.

Question 16

Segmented labour

Answer 16

When labour is split up into separate segments, each of the segments creating a part of the whole.

Question 17

Labour conditions

Answer 17

The physical and mental climate in which one had to work.

Question 18

Child labour

Answer 18

Working (in a factory) as a fulltime, payed job by (small) children.

Question 19

Modern Imperialism

Answer 19

A proces in which countries expand their power to other countries in the world for their own economic and political gain.

Question 20

Cultivation System

Answer 20

An economic system in Indonesia used between 1830 and 1870 in which the people were forced to cultivate agricultural products and give these to their Dutch oppressors.