People
Events
Vocabulary
Arts & Science
Historical Skills
100
Who wrote the Communist Manifesto?
Karl Marx
100
Why was the Industrial Revolution important?
It increased life expectancy and standard of living permanently for most of the world.
100
What is a workers' strike?
When workers refuse to work in order to pressure their employers to give them better conditions
100
French painter Eugene Delacroix painted which Romantic-era piece?
The Battle of Poitiers
100
Who is the man on the stand?
Andrew Carnegie
200
Who developed the modern theory of Capitalism?
Adam Smith
200
What invention sparked the Industrial Revolution?
The Steam Engine
200
What tactic would workers use in order to keep their jobs during a strike?
Sit-down strike
200
What musician ushered in the Romantic Period in the early 19th Century?
Ludwig van Beethoven
200
What is Carnegie's left side doing in this cartoon? Why is he doing it?
Reducing wages; so he can afford to make charitable donations and build libraries
300
Why did Charles Darwin's theory of evolution spark an uproar?
It failed to acknowledge a religious role in creation
300
What major effect did the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire have?
It contributed to laws protecting worker health and safety
300
Define a horizontal and a vertical monopoly.
Horizontal: buying out competition in order to control more of the market.
Vertical: eliminating competition by controlling every step of the manufacturing process.
300
Louis Pasteur developed what scientific breakthrough in 1861?
Germ theory
300
Name three areas/things that Standard Oil appears to have control over from this cartoon.
The White House/Capitol/Government
The railroads/steamships
The oil industry
The world/country
400
What two authors are exemplary of Romanticism, and what works did they publish?
Mary Shelley and Edgar Allan Poe; Frankenstein and The Raven
400
The Second Industrial Revolution was focused on what three things (opposed to railroads, coal, and iron)?
Electricity, gas, and steel
400
What word means the decline or rejection of religion or religious beliefs?
Secularization
400
Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev created what scientific tool?
The Periodic Table
400
What might the group of men in the bottom right represent?
Smaller businesses
The steel, copper, and coal industries
500
What two American businessmen are exemplary of horizontal and vertical monopolies, respectively?
Cornelius Vanderbilt (horizontal) and John D. Rockefeller (vertical)
500
What is Romanticism, and why is it important?
A movement in the arts in the early 1800s focused on emotion and imagination.
It emphasized individuals and their unique experiences (and is extremely influential to how we view art today)
500
Describe Adam Smith's "invisible hand" theory.
All people will work for their own self-interest, and by doing so will benefit all of society around them. (The "invisible hand" is society being lifted by individuals working for their own self-interest.)
500
What scientist published "The Origin of Species," and what theory did his work argue?
Charles Darwin; the theory of evolution
500
Both cartoons in this column are clearly biased against monopolies and big business owners. Which social class do the authors of the cartoons most likely belong to?
Industrial Working Class