Unit 5 - Industrialization and Integration Flashcards
Through a process known as _______, public lands that were shared during the Middle Ages were enclosed by fences, which allowed for private farming and private gain
Enclosure
The industrial revolution began in this country, helping to propel it to it’s undisputed ranking as the most powerful in the 19t century
Britain
Cities developed in areas where resources, such as (4) were available for manufacturing.
Coal, iron, water, and railroads
What was one of the most significant developments in the Industrial Revolution?
the Steam Engine
-took the work of several people to perfect
Why was the steam engine revolutionary?
It could not only be used to generate power for industry but also for transportation.
This was invented in 1837 by Samuel Morse. It allowed people to communicate across great distances within seconds.
The Telegraph
This was invented in 1876 by Alexander Graham Bell.
The Telephone
This was invented in 1879 by Thomas Edison
The Lightbulb
This was invented in 1885 by Gottlieb Daimler
The Internal Combustion Engine
This was invented in the 1890s by Marconi Guglielmo
The Radio
This was inventede in 1903 by Orville and Wilbur Wright. It travels faster than a steamship.
The Airplane
Who developed the concept of evolution by means of natural selection?
Charles Darwin.
Under Eli Whitney’s system of ________ _____, machines and their parts were produced uniformly so that they could be easily replaced when something broke down.
interchangeable parts
Henry Ford’s use of the __________ _____ meant that each factory worker only added one part to a finished product, one after another after another.
Assembly Line
He wrote in The Wealth of Nations that economic prosperity and fairness is best achieved through private ownership.
Adam smith
Individuals should own the means of production and sell their products and services in a free and open market, where the demand for their goods and services would determine their price and availability
What is the process called in which governments remove themselves entirely from regulation?
Laissez-faire capitalism
What did Adam smith write his book in response to?
The Western European mercantilist practices that had dominated during the age of exploration
This German economist and philosopher, who spent a food part of his adult life living in poverty, pointed out that the factory workers had genuine opportunities but were being exploited as a consequence of capitalism
Karl Marx
These groups of workers destroyed equipment in factories in the middle of the night to protest working conditions and pitiful wages in England in the early 1800s.
Liffites
Where did the industrial revolution start?
England
What was the purpose of most European countries established colonies in the Americas
The purpose of these colonies was mostly to supply crops and products that could be sold in Europe.
What was the most important document of the French Revolution?
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
This country was unique in that it was the first African-run state in the Americas
Haiti
Germany, which had also been characterized by competing mini-empires, began to unite under the ________, led by King Wilhelm I and his prime minister, Otto von Bismarck. By 1871, Germany was a new country.
Prussians
