Industrial Revolution
True of False. During the Industrial Revolution, many children worked in the coal mines.
True
machine powered by coal, making it possible to locate factories anywhere, including away from rivers
Steam engine
True of False. Nationalism can pull some regions together to unify them and also push some regions apart or away from unification.
True
the right to vote
suffrage
A person of mixed European and Native American descent
Mestizo
Which continent dominated the world's economy because of its military power and industries?
Europe
production in large quantities, usually by machinery
mass production
Fill in the blank. A Nation can be described as a group of people who share a common history, culture, or __________ and who live in the same area.
language
A person who is willing to risk their money to start a business
entrepreneur
Prime minister of Prussia who had a foreign policy called “blood and iron”
Otto von Bismarck
Which caused both migration to the cities and higher survival rates of city dwellers?
improved public sanitation
method of making high-quality steel efficiently and cheaply
Bessemer process
Hungary and Austria shared the same
monarch
a crop that is grown for sale rather than for personal use
cash crop
A leader of the Italian Unification effort.
Victor Emmanuel II
Many workers reacted to poor working conditions by
organizing to pass laws and make reforms
Which caused both migration to the cities and higher survival rates of city dwellers?
improved public sanitation
Fill in the blank. The principle of __________ called for the prime minister to be responsible to the popularly elected legislative body.
ministerial responsibility
an association of employers and employees in a basic industry.
corporation
This person improved the steam engine.
James Watt
In the Second Industrial Revolution, what four innovations opened up new industrial frontiers?
steel, chemicals, electricity, and petroleum
arrangement of machines, equipment, and workers in which work passes from worker to worker in a direct line until the product is assembled
assembly line
theory used to justify the dominance of Western nations, bases on “the survival of the fittest”
Social Darwinism
the fencing of meadows and fields, which kept peasants from using them for grazing and forced many to move to towns for work
enclosure movement
Leader of the Haitian independence movement during the French Revolution (1787–99)
Toussaint Louverture