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100
The Meiji government in this country was the first to promote industrialization in Asia.
What is Japan?
100
These centers for manufacturing were originally powerd by wheels that harnessed power from the movement of water in rivers and streams.
What are factories? / What are mills?
100
This fossil fuel was used to provide energy to run steam engines in the 1800s.
What is coal?
100
Karl Marx emerged as the leader of this ideology in the mid 1800s when he called for a worldwide revolution to put the proletariat in power.
What is Communism?
100
These groups came to be employed in mines and factories more and more after 1790 because business owners could pay them less than men.
Who were women and children?
100
This term indicates that political and economic activities were primarily under the control of men.
What is patriarchal? / What is a patriarchal society?
100
Historians generally agree that this major economic transformation began in England in 1760.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
200
European liberals in the 1800s worked to extend this right to women and working class men so they would have a greater voice in government.
What is suffrage? / What are voting rights?
200
The earliest factories made use of machines to transform raw cotton or wool into this general category of materials.
What are textiles?
200
A fungus wiped out the potato crops for several years in this part of the United Kingdom in the 1840s.
What is Ireland?
200
These violent incidents of persecution against Russian Jews were carried out by various antisemitic groups in the 1800s.
What are pogroms?
200
The French term used to represent Adam Smith's ideas on a free market economy.
What is laissez faire?
200
Robert Owen supported the growth of these organizations in order to empower members of the working class against their employers.
What are labor unions? / What are trade unions?
200
In 1831 Michael Faraday harnessed this source of energy when he invented the dynamo?
model of Faraday's dynamo
What is electricity?
Reddy Kilowatt
300
This Prussian chancellor successfully led a campaign to unite Germany under one government between 1864 and 1871.
Who was Otto Von Bismarck? / Who was Bismarck?
300
Between 1765 and 1790, this Scottish engineer redesigned the steam engine to make it more efficient.
Who was James Watt?
300
This natural resource is the primary ingredient for steel.
What is iron?
300
Mikhail Bakunin emerged as one of the leaders of this ideology in the late 1800s when he called for a violent overthrow of all governments and the establishment of a stateless society.
What is Anarchism?
300
These became more affordable and more available as a result of improvements in factory production in the 1800s.
What are consumer goods?
300
This was the name that Karl Marx used for the industrial working class.
What is the proletariat?
300
Edmund Cartwright was instrumental to introducing this type of engine to textile factories in 1789.
What is the steam engine?
400
This Austrian diplomat and political leader was a primary leader of European Conservatives between 1815 and 1848.
Who was Klemens von Metternich? /
Who was Metternich?
400
The manufacturing of sewing machines, stoves, ice boxes, and toasters created this new category of consumer goods in the 1800s.
What are appliances?
400
The refinement of this fossil fuel provided energy to run the internal combustion engines developed for cars and trucks in the 19th and 20th centuries.
What is oil? / What is petroleum?
400
This Christian denomination served as a unifying force among Greek revolutionaries during their revolution against Ottoman control in the 1820s.
What is Orthodox? / What is Greek Orthodox?
400
In the early 1700s, this type of engine was used primarily to pump water out of mines.
What is a steam engine?
400
This is the term developed by historians to describe a set of customs designed to celebrate the traditional roles of middle class women in the home.
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What is the "Cult of Domesticity?"
400
The first public steam-powered locomotive railway opened in 1825 in this country.
What is the United Kingdom? / UK? / England?
Stockton and Darlington Railway - 1825
500
This Italian state used military and diplomatic success from 1858 - 1870 to unite Italy under one government.
What is the Kingdom of Piedmont? /
What is the Kingdom of Sardinia?
500
During the Second Industrial Revolution, this new form of energy eventually became available to the public after Michael Faraday invented the dynamo in 1831.
What is electricity?
500
Urbanization made this city the largest in the world with a population of more than five and a half million in 1891.
What is London?
500
Karl Marx described this man as a Utopian Socialist because he called for voluntary change to phalanasteries and communal ownership of property.
Who was Charles Fourier?
500
This Iberian country did not embrace industrialization until the late 1800s because it relied on its colonies to generate wealth instead of a growing middle class.
What is Spain? / What is Portugal?
Luddites destroyed this Barcelona factory in 1835
500
In the 1830s the Sadler Committee investigated the need to regulate this kind of labor.
What is child labor?
British Parliament debating the regulation of child labor
500
Nikolaus Otto invented an improved version of this type of engine in Germany in 1876.
What is the internal combustion engine?
