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What two countries/regions did Britain get its cheap cotton?
Egypt and India
Which Railway connected the east and west coast of the U.S.? What about the east and west of Russia?
Union Pacific, Trans-Siberian
What are two new classes that emerged as a result of the Industrial Revolution?
Working and middle class
What two countries were primarily responsible for the second Industrial Revolution?
Germany and the United States
This is the name of the new economic system that replaced mercantilism in Britain and later the rest of Western Europe.
Capitalism
Steam and Internal Combustion Engine
What is the term used to describe people performing different, small tasks used to complete a finished product?
Worker Specialization
What are three hardships workers had to endure in the 19th century factories?
Long hours, low wages, dangerous conditions
Which country was first to experience widespread railway growth?
Britain
This is the name of the process of moving to cities from the country.
Urbanization
Provide the predominant metal extracted in Chile in the 19th century.
Copper.
What is the term used to describe the process of bringing different workers/jobs into a single area (factory) to complete the finished project?
Factory System
How did factories change family life?
Families worked separately
Provide the drug that was exported from the Middle East to China from the British.
Opium
Provide three ways canals and railroads improved transportation/aided economic growth.
Faster transport, Cheaper transport, more goods transported.
Provide the predominant product in sub-saharan Africa that was exported to Europe in the 19th Century.
Palm Oil
Provide two inventions that started mass British Textile Production.
Water Frame and Spinning Jenny
Provide an example of peasants resisting changes (through violence)
Kett's Rebellion
Provide five countries that experienced widespread railroad growth during the 19th century.
Russia, Britain, United States, France, Italy
What is the name of the canals in Panama, through New York, and in between Egypt and Saudia Arabia.
Panama Canal, Erie Canal, Suez Canal
Provide the predominant Product in South Asia and Egypt that was exported to Europe in the 19th Century.
Cotton
What are three inventions or new techniques devised during the second Industrial Revolution?
Electricity, Bessemer process, Petroleum
Provide three things the new upper class attempted to control to ensure their business interests.
Taxes, Wages, Workers Unions
Who wrote a book on Capitalism in 1776? What was the title? Bonus: What country was he from?
Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations, Scotland
What were the two new ways to fertilize land that started the Agricultural Revolution in the 16th - 18th Centuries?
Clovers and Convertible husbandry