Vocabulary
People
Unification (Mod 14)
Mass Society
Industrial Revolution
100

A form of socialism in which all means of production are controlled by the people.  The government has much control over the economy.

What is Communism?

100

This German philosopher was the main author of the Communist Manifest, written in the mid 1800's.  He later became known as the "father of Communism."

Who is Karl Marx?

100

This German word mean Emperor.

What is Kaiser?

100

These organizations were set up to fight for better working conditions in early factories.

What are Labor Unions?

100

This Scottish Engineer improved the steam engine to the point where it could drive machinery.

Who is James Watt?

200

Process of developing machine production of goods.

What is Industrialization?

200

This "Iron Chancellor" was most  instrumental in unifying the German states by using Real Politics and Blood and Iron.

Who is Otto von Bismarck?

200

This 3rd war for German Unification was a massive defeat for the French and completed the unified German State with Kaiser Wilhelm as Emperor.

What is the Franco-Prussian War?

200

The movement for improved rights for these two groups of people emerged out of the right for factory workers.

Who are women and slaves?

200

This revolution had to come before the Industrial Revolution in order to provide the workforce in the factories.

What is the Agricultural Revoluion?

300

Machine parts that are identical and manufactured by machine.

What are interchangeable parts?

300

The "Brain" behind Italian Unification, this man united northern Italy using war and diplomacy.

Who is Count Camillio Cavour?

300

The leader of the Red shirts who helped unify most of southern Italy and the Kingdom of the two Sicilys.

Who is Guiseppe Garibaldi?

300

This type of economy is largely based on the ideas of supply and demand and Laissez Faire.

What is Capitalism?

300

This man put the first steam engine in a boat in the early 1800's.  The first paddle wheeled steam boat was the Clermont.

Who is Robert Fulton?

400

Person of mixed European and African ancestry.

What is a Mulatto?

400

James Hargreaves invented this machine in the late 1700's which greatly sped up the spinning process allowing one person to weave 7 threads at a time.

What is the Spinning Jenny?

400

The first Caribbean colony to gain its independence from France in 1804, was led by former slave Touissaint L'Ouverture.

What is Hispaniola (Haiti)?

400

This man developed a better and cheaper way of making steel.

Who is Henry Bessemer?

400

This Italian inventor sent the first radio waves across the Atlantic in 1901?

Who is Guglielmo Marconi?

500

Priest who began the revolt against the Spanish in Mexico, which eventually gained its independence in 1821.

Who is Father Miguel Hidalgo?

500

These two liberators of South America, were members of the Creole class who led armies against Spanish rule on the continent.  Name one!

Who is Simon Bolivar and Jose de San Martin?

500

Following German Unification, Bismarck seized these two French provinces along the border which were very rich in natural resources.

What are Alsace and Lorraine?

500

A series of British turnpikes were named after this man who devised a new way to build them.

Who is John MacAdam?

500

This central European Empire remained largely agricultural leading up to World War I, where they were defeated and their empire was torn apart.

What is the Austro-Hungarian Empire?