Inventions
What was one invention that increased the speed of production in the textile industry?
Weaving looms, spinning machines
Which ideology argues that in a capitalist economic system, the bourgeoisie take all the profits generated by the workers and exploit them?
Marxists (Communists)
Who invented the light bulb?
Thomas Edison
What church continued to play an important role in society throughout the 19th century?
Catholic
Who invented the steam engine in 1769
What was the main form of protest by early trade unions?
Going on strike
What became an important source of energy after the invention of the internal combustion engine?
Petroleum
What was the name of Spain's biggest trade union, established by anarchists?
Liverpool and Manchester
Where and when did the First International Workers' Association emerge?
London, 1864
What forms when companies and competitors in the same industry merge/cooperate?
Cartels
The wealthier members of the bourgeoisie gained more political power during which queen's reign?
Isabel II
By the late 18th century, the use of this residue left behind from burning coal had become widespread
coke
What is the Marxist theory of world history that considers it a succession of modes of production?
Historical Materialism
What's the name of a company owned by multiple shareholders that invested capital in return for a share of the profit?
joint-stock companies
In Andalucía and Cataluña, where poor working conditions led to very violent peasant revolts, what kind of political ideas were becoming popular?
In what year did Richard Trevithick present the first locomotive able to pull a wagon?
1804
What was the first political expression of the labour movement?
Chartism, named after the 1838 People's Charter
Where were the world's first large department stores opened?
Paris and London
The first Spanish railway was constructed in 1848 and named the
Barcelona-Mataró line