Industrial Innovations
This industry established the foundation for Britain's early dominance in the industrial revolution.
What is the textile industry?
The new bourgeoisie who rose in status did so through this upward movement.
What is social mobility?
This 1815 meeting of European leaders aimed to restore traditional order after Napoleon.
What is the Congress of Vienna?
This Enlightenment-rooted ideology advocated for individual rights and representative government.
What is liberalism?
He was a conservative Austrian leader and architect of the Concert of Europe.
Who is Klemens von Metternich?
This invention, improved by James Watt, powered trains, factories, and ships.
What is the steam engine?
These working-class housing units were often overcrowded and unsanitary.
What are tenements?
This term is used to describe the wave of revolutions that swept across Europe in a single year.
What are the Revolutions of 1848?
This radical ideology advocated for a stateless society through direct worker action and sabotage.
What is anarchism or syndicalism?
This urban planner redesigned Paris with broad boulevards and modern sewer systems.
Who is Georges Haussmann?
He developed a method to mass-produce steel cheaply and efficiently.
Who is Henry Bessemer?
Members joined these to provide support and advocacy before formal trade unions.
What are mutual aid societies?
This movement, which was lead largely by women, sought to address social ills through banning the sale and consumption of alcohol.
What was the temperance movement?
This philosopher's theory of “the greatest good for the greatest number” shaped utilitarianism.
Who is Jeremy Bentham?
This was the representative body created in Russia in response to the Revolution of 1905.
What is the Duma?
This 1851 event showcased industrial achievements in the Crystal Palace.
What is the Great Exhibition of 1851?
This cultural ideal emphasized women's role in the home as moral and domestic guardians.
What is the cult of domesticity?
This movement supported the repeal of tariffs that kept grain prices high, especially hurting workers.
What is the Anti-Corn Law League?
This ideology opposes government interference in economic affairs.
What is laissez-faire?
This system used government protection to unify German trade before political unification.
What is the Zollverein agreement?
This German family built a steel producing empire and established one of the first systematic plans for managing a modern company, making them a leading producer of weapons and transportation technologies.
What is the Krupp family?
This term for members of the working class was particularly popular among Marxists.
What is the proletariat?
This movement advocated for female suffrage in Britain and included the Pankhurst family.
What is the Women’s Social and Political Union?
This German thinker advocated for gender equality under socialism and believed the common interests of workers transcended national borders.
Who is Clara Zetkin?
This conservative British thinker argued that traditional authority was part of the natural order, and that a stable society should be under the leadership of a small group of elites.
Who is Edmund Burke?