Unit 2: Industrial Revolution

Question 1

1st Industrial Revolution 1780-1830

Answer 1

Textiles, railroads, iron, coal

Question 2

2nd Revolution 1860-1914

Answer 2

Steel, chemicals, electricity, petroleum

Question 3

Started in…

Answer 3

England/Britain

Question 4

7 causes

Answer 4

Agricultural evolution: change in farming methods which allowed greater production of food; cotton grin
Healthy labor force: ready to move to available jobs
Steam Engine: most important of Industrial Revolution; invented by James Watt
Innovations and Inventions: Edison-:Wizard of Menlo Park”-light bulb
Capitol: Money available for investment
Peace: Government favored trade, laissez faire policies
New markets: growing population of consumers; overseas markets opened up by transportation

Question 5

Capitol

Answer 5

Money available for investment

Question 6

Entrepreneur

Answer 6

someone who starts a business

Question 7

Cottage Industry

Answer 7

Textiles; help start the industrial revolution; trade

Question 8

Socialism

Answer 8

Mixed economy; equal distribution of wealth; protect society as whole; negative aspects of capitalism

Question 9

Conservatism

Answer 9

maintain tradition

Question 10

Liberalism

Answer 10

new; freedom; equality; change

Question 11

nationalism

Answer 11

Devotion to the interest of ones nation

Question 12

Laissez faire

Answer 12

“let do”

Question 13

Leisure

Answer 13

Freedom from work

Question 14

abolitionism

Answer 14

Abolition of slavery

Question 15

Suffrage

Answer 15

right to vote

Question 16

secularization

Answer 16

Non religious

Question 17

Urbanization

Answer 17

movement of people to cities

Question 18

Revisionists

Answer 18

advocacy of revision of long doctrines or historical events

Question 19

Elite

Answer 19

superior intellectual, social, or economic status in a group or class; the rich

Question 20

White collar

Answer 20

takes shower in the morning; professional job, clean shirt, higher salary

Question 21

Blue collar

Answer 21

shower at night; manual labor; dirty blue shirt; low salary

Question 22

Steam Engine

Answer 22

Most important of Industrial Revolution; invented by James Watt

Question 23

Communism

Answer 23

Command/planned economy; complete rejection of industrial society and capitalism; extreme form of socialism

Question 24

Marxism

Answer 24

Karl Marx; class struggle

Question 25

Friedrich Engels

Answer 25

Developed Marxism with Karl Mark

Question 26

Spinning jenny

Answer 26

early form of spinning machine

Question 27

Social Darwinism

Answer 27

“Survival of the fittest”

Question 28

Literacy

Answer 28

the condition or quality of being literate; ability to read and write

Question 29

Aristocracy

Answer 29

rule by the rich

Question 30

Cotton gin

Answer 30

Invented by Eli Whitney; Agricultural revolution- most important; separates seeds, seed hulls, and other fibers of cotton

Question 31

Eli Whitney

Answer 31

invented the Cotton gin

Question 32

Anarchy

Answer 32

No form of government

Question 33

Monarchy

Answer 33

rule by king/monarch

Question 34

Oligarchy

Answer 34

ruled by few groups

Question 35

Theocracy

Answer 35

rule by religious leaders

Question 36

Autocracy

Answer 36

government by single person

Question 37

Totalitarianism

Answer 37

one political group taking control over other political groups and having no toleration for any other kinds

Question 38

Republic

Answer 38

representative democracy

Question 39

Direct democracy

Answer 39

rule by the people