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Terms
Grab Bag
Grab Bag
100
Name for the period of time when society went from making goods by hand to making goods in factories.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
100
Under Napoleon, these places were created as a way to provide greater equality by educating more than just the richest children.
What are lycees (public schools)?
100
Practice used by factory owners to garner cheap laborers who could do repetitive jobs and fit into small spaces.
What is child labor?
100
Conflict that Russia dropped out of during the Russian Revolution.
What is World War I?
100
Name for the meeting of the three estates which Louis XVI convened because he wanted to raise taxes. At the meeting, the delegates of the Third Estate left and formed their own assembly.
What is the Estates-General?
200
Using collective bargaining, these allowed workers to band together to gain rights from factory owners.
What is labor unions?
200
This is the country where the Industrial Revolution began.
What is Britain?
200
One way that laborers would influence factory owners was to do this, where they refused to work until their demands were met.
What is go on strike?
200
Name for the government in Russia that was created after the February Revolution. It was made up of a group of men who volunteered for the position, and was led by Alexander Kerensky.
What is the Provisional Government?
200
Contained Muammar Gaddafi's political philosophy. A statue of them was destroyed during the Arab Spring revolution in Libya.
What is the Green Books?
300
The system by which owners brought machines and workers together in one building to increase production and efficiency (and profits!)
What is the factory system?
300
Name of the factory in China where iPhones are created (among other things). This factory suffered a rash of suicides by workers who were unhappy with their lives.
What is Foxconn?
300
The shift from people living in rural areas to living in cities.
What is urbanization?
300
Process by which Stalin and his influence were removed from Russian history and society.
What is de-stalinization?
300
Name of the Russian leader who rivaled Stalin's power after Lenin's death. Stalin had him exiled to Mexico and later assassinated.
What is Leon Trotsky?
400
Economic system in which private property is abolished, there are no class distinctions, and everyone's needs are provided for.
What is communism?
400
Name of the Bangladeshi factory that collapsed, killing over 1,000 people. Its collapse prompted actions to try to reform factories to make them safer, but progress has been slow/non-existant
What is the Rana Plaza factory?
400
Economic system in which people buy and sell goods in a free market, property is privately owned, and owners get to keep as distribute profits as they see fit.
What is capitalism?
400
Term for the group that came to power after the Reign of Terror. They were a wealthy, conservative group of men who were corrupt, but who ended the violence. They eventually enabled Napoleon to rise to power.
What is the Directory?
400
Policy created by Alexander III that said that all Russian people had to practice Russian orthodox religion, had to speak Russian, and could not identify themselves as any other ethnic group aside from Russian.
What is Russification?
500
Term for clothing that is cheaply produced and thus made available to consumers at very low prices. Laborers who create this clothing are paid low wages and work in poor conditions.
What is fast fashion?
500
Name of the factory in the United States that caught fire in 1911, killing over 120 people and prompting large-scale action to make factories safer and prevent disasters.
What is Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire?
500
Type of fabric produced in many textile factories now, whose production has serious environmental impacts and uses up non-renewable natural resources.
What is synthetic fabric?
500
Name for the conflict between France, Spain and Portugal during which Napoleon sent his troops to Portugal to punish them for violating the Continental System, but in doing do marched through Spain, which began a guerrilla war with the Spanish people.
What is the Peninsular War?
500
Term for the agreement that was revoked by Louis XIV that had granted the French protestants the freedom to practice their religion in France. As a result of the revocation, many French protestants, who were an important part of the economy, immigrated to Britain.
What is the Edict of Nantes?
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