🏭 Origins and Effects of Industrialization
This was among the earliest inventions of the Industrial Revolution and drastically reduced the amount of time required to make yarn.
What is the Spinning Jenny?
This new social class emerged in the 19th century, made up of factory owners, merchants, and professionals. (Hint: NOT "middle-class")
Who are the bourgeoisie?
This Prussian leader unified Germany.
Who is Otto von Bismarck?
This late-19th-century theory applied "survival of the fittest" ideas to human societies, justifying imperialism and racism.
What is Social Darwinism?
This literary and artistic movement portrayed the harsh realities of working-class life and social problems.
What is Realism?
This movement privatized common farmland in Britain, pushing peasants into cities and fueling industrial labor.
What is the Enclosure Movement?
This is an economic system where the means of production are privately owned and controlled.
What is capitalism?
This Italian statesman led the diplomatic effort to unify northern Italy under the House of Savoy.
Who is Count Cavour?
This meeting in 1884–1885 divided the continent among European powers with little regard for African peoples.
What is the Berlin Conference?
This flavor of modern art emphasized light and color as the true subjects of paintings.
What is impressionism?
This invention by James Watt provided a new, powerful energy source for factories and transportation.
What is the steam engine?
This economic theory envisioned planned communities based on cooperation rather than competition.
What is utopian socialism?
This military leader, known for his "Red Shirts," helped unify southern Italy through armed struggle.
Who is Giuseppe Garibaldi?
DAILY DOUBLE
This war between 1853–1856 weakened the Ottoman Empire and Russia and disrupted the Concert of Europe.
What is the Crimean War?
This German philosopher was an outspoken critic of European culture, religion, and morality.
Who is Friedrich Nietzsche?
BONUS (300): What metaphysical theory did he champion?
This two transportation innovations dramatically improved the movement of goods and people during the 19th century.
What are the railroad and the steam boat
DAILY DOUBLE
This economic theory emphasized class struggle and a worker-led overthrow of the means of production.
What is Marxism?
This 1870-1871 war completed German unification and humiliated France.
What is the Franco-Prussian War?
BONUS (100): Which region was annexed by the Germans as a result of this war?
This uprising in 1857 was sparked by resentment against British rule in India and resulted in the British crown establishing direct control over India as a colony.
What is the Sepoy Rebellion (Mutiny)?
This epistemic theory argues that every rationally justifiable assertion can be scientifically verified or is capable of a logical or mathematical proof.
What is Positivism?
The second industrial revolution saw advancements in which three areas?
What are steel, electricity, and chemicals
This British law, passed in 1848, aimed to improve sanitary conditions in growing industrial cities.
What is the Public Health Act of 1848?
This economic organization helped unite German states by eliminating tariffs internally.
What is the Zollverein?
This European monarch had personal ownership over the Congo.
Who is King Leopold II?
This branch of physics describes the behavior of nature at the subatomic scale, and provides a picture of reality that is more subjective in nature than Newtonian physics.
What is quantum mechanics?
BONUS (200): Formally define 'objective' and 'subjective'