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Which industry was the first to industrialize?
Textiles
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Where did the working class live in the industrial cities?
Tenements
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What is the policy that industry and business should operate without any government interference?
Laissez-Faire
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What metal did Bessemer design a better method to produce?
Steel
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Which two nations took the lead in industrial power?
The USA and Germany
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How did the slave trade help Britain industrialize?
The money from trading was used to invest in early industries.
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What is the idea that glorified a women's place in the home?
Cult of Domesticity
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Who believed that population would grow faster than the food supply, and so encouraged families to have fewer children?
Thomas Malthus
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What replaced steam as the main source of energy?
Electricity
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What were three ways the working class tried to improve their working and living conditions?
Labor unions / Strikes, mutual-aid societies, voting, religion (Methodism)
300
What metal did Abraham Darby find a better way to get?
Iron
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What is urbanization?
The growth of cities as people migrate from the countryside in search of working opportunities
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What was the idea that wage increases are useless because they will not cover the cost of basic necessities?
Iron Law of Wages
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What did James Watts improve that powered machines, trains, and steamships.
The Steam Engine
300
Which countries came to dominate the world? Industrialized countries, or non-industrialized countries?
Industrialized countries
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Which country had strict rules on exporting and sharing technology with other countries?
Britain
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How did the old rich (landowners and aristocrats/nobles) look at the new middle class?
They looked down on them. The old rich was arrogant and disdainful of the new rich.
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Who predicted that the proletariat (the working class) would defeat the bourgeoisie in a great struggle and take control of the means of production?
Karl Marx
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What two ideas / technology increased production in factories?
Assembly Line & Interchangeable Parts
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How did cities change and become safer?
Lighting, police departments, and fire departments. Sewage systems. Rebuilt tenement slums. Wider streets. Skyscrapers, sidewalks. Garbage collection, etc...
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What are the key factors needed for a country to industrialize
Stable government Capital Resources Labor Technology
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Why were big businesses considered "robber barons"?
They controlled industries, destroyed competition, and controlled prices.
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What idea believes that government should promote the greatest good for the greatest amount of people?
Utilitarianism
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What was Charles Darwin's explanation of how life evolves?
Natural selection
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What idea justified racism, social classes, economic, and national competition?
Social Darwinism