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Nationalism in Italy
Nationalism in Germany
Industrial Revolution, Part I
Industrial Revolution, Part II
Imperialism
100
This was the name of the secret society that was dedicated to Italian independence and helped start Italy's unification movement.
What is the Carbonari?
100
He was the important Prime Minister of Prussia that played the leading role in German Unification.
What is Otto von Bismarck?
100
During the first phase of the Industrial Revolution, most machines used this type of power.
What is Steam Power?
100
The Second Phase of the Industrial Revolution was powered by this.
What is OIL?
100
Imperialism was linked to Industrialization because European countries named a lot of this for their factories.
What are raw materials?
200
This was the name of the territory, centered around the city of Rome, that the Pope controlled before Italian Unification.
What is the Papal States?
200
Prussia grew more powerful throughout the 1800's by winning wars and getting smaller German States to join up with it. Its greatest victory happened in 1870, when Prussia invaded this country, and captured the important territory of Alsace Lorraine.
What is France?
200
This was the first country to Industrialize.
What was Britain?
200
New factories, like those of Henry Ford's automobile company, used this new process to make their product faster and more efficiently.
What is the assembly line process?
200
This colony was the Jewel in the British Empire's crown.
What is India?
300
He was originally the King of Piedmont-Sardinia, one of the northern Italian Kingdoms, but became the king of united Italy after a successful unification vote in 1870.
What is King Victor-Emmanuel II?
300
Industrialization was another big part of Germany's rise to power during its Unification Movement. Germany's leaders realized the importance of taking care of Germany's workers, so they created these...For example, insurance and retirement pensions.
What are social welfare programs?
300
Before the Industrial Revolution, there was an Agricultural Revolution. Framers changed from being small plots farmed by families, to large plots owned by wealthy landowners. It was this process, that forced many poor farmers to move to the growing cities in search of work.
What is 'enclosure system'?
300
Rich businessmen like John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie became so powerful by buying up all their competitors or putting them out of business, that governments began to create this new type of law to prevent companies from completely controlling certain key industries.
What are Anti-Trust Laws?
300
Before the Sepoy Rebellion in 1857, most of India was ruled by this organization, which had the support of the British government and military.
What is the British East India Company?
400
These two men, both with the first name Giuseppe, were important leaders of the Risorgimento, the Italian Unification Movement.
Who were Giuseppe Mazzini and Giuseppe Garibaldi?
400
After the defeat of Napoleon, European leaders met at the Congress of Vienna to try and reestablish the old 'balance of power' system that Napoleon had challenged. To help keep Germany stable, they created this...which included Prussia, Austria and 37 other smaller German States.
What was the German Confederation?
400
He was the utopian socialist thinker that made his own 'model factory' at New Lanark, Scotland. There he offered his workers higher wages, benefits and education for their children.
Who was Robert Owen?
400
Many Reform Movements began during the Industrial revolution of the 1800's. This movement first was able to get the British Government to pass the Factory Act of 1833.
What is the Child Labor Laws Movement?
400
Nationalist movements spread across the Americas in the early 1800s. This man, a freed slave, led the revolution on the tiny island of Haiti.
Who is Toussaint L'Ouverture?
500
Before Unification, Italy was divided up into a many small kingdoms and independent city-states. Some of these were ruled by foreign kingdoms, like this northern Italian region that was controlled by Austria before the Italian Wars for Unification.
What is Venetia?
500
He was the first Emperor of United Germany.
Who was Kaiser Wilhelm I of Prussia?
500
According to Karl Marx and his ideas about the Communist Revolution. The workers, known as this, needed to rise up and overthrow the factory owners and businessmen, known as the bourgeoisie.
What is the proletariat?
500
Steel was the major building material of the Second-phase of the Industrial Revolution. This is the man that invented the process to mass produce steel.
Who is Henry Bessemer?
500
Even after gaining independence, some small countries in the Americas found themselves controlled by powerful foreign businesses. They became, in effect, economic colonies. Because of their main export, people tended to call them this.
What is a Banana Republic?