The Industrial Revolution
What country did the Industrial Revolution begin in during the 1760s?
Answer: What is Great Britain?
What country experienced severe economic problems starting in 1846 that led to revolution?
Answer: What is France?
Who was the first major leader of Mexican independence who began a revolt in 1810?
Answer: Who is Miguel Hidalgo?
What did Romantic artists believe all art was a reflection of?
Answer: What are the artist’s inner feelings?
What natural resource powered steam engines and helped factories move away from rivers?
Answer: What is coal?
What movement in the 18th century changed farming practices and increased food production?
Answer: What is the Agricultural Revolution?
What type of government replaced the monarchy in France in 1848?
Answer: What is a republic (the Second Republic)?
What country did Miguel Hidalgo lead a revolt against in 1810?
Answer: What is Spain?
What did Romantic artists reject in favor of warmth and emotion?
Answer: What is classical reason?
What group made up a large majority of workers in early textile factories?
Answer: Who are women and girls?
What invention by James Hargreaves in 1764 made spinning thread much faster?
Answer: What is the spinning Jenny?
What voting system allowed all adult men to vote in the 1848 French elections?
Answer: What is universal male suffrage?
What two leaders are known as the “Liberators of South America”?
Answer: Who are Simón Bolívar and José de San Martín?
Who was one of the most famous Romantic painters from France?
Answer: Who is Eugène Delacroix?
What event occurred after the French government shut down national workshops, leading to violent conflict?
Answer: What is a working-class revolt (or the June Days uprising)?
What 1833 law set a minimum working age of 9 and limited the hours children could work in factories?
Answer: What is the Factory Act of 1833?
What government program was created to provide jobs for the unemployed but later shut down, sparking protests?
Answer: What are the national workshops?
What mountain range did San Martín cross in 1817 to attack Spanish forces in Chile?
Answer: What are the Andes Mountains?
What famous composer dominated Romantic music trends in the early 19th century?
Answer: Who is Ludwig van Beethoven?
What dangerous working conditions were common in coal mines during the Industrial Revolution?
Answer: What are cave-ins, explosions, and gas fumes?
What economic system emerged during the Industrial Revolution that created both an industrial middle class and a working class with harsh conditions?
Answer: What is industrial capitalism?
What assembly attempted to create a unified German constitution in 1848 but ultimately failed?
Answer: What is the Frankfurt Assembly?
What U.S. policy declared in 1823 warned European nations not to colonize or interfere in the Americas?
Answer: What is the Monroe Doctrine?
What type of literature, featuring horror and the unfamiliar, included works like Frankenstein and Edgar Allan Poe’s stories?
Answer: What is Gothic literature?
What two major challenges caused San Martín’s army to suffer heavy losses while crossing into Chile?
Answer: What are loss of animals (pack mules and horses) and lack of oxygen?