Section 1: The Industrial Revolution
An economic system, society—usually in the form of the government which—owns and controls some means of production such as factories and utilities
Socialism
A belief that people should be as free as possible from government restraint.
Liberalism
Who was the President of the United States at the start of the American Civil War?
Abe Lincoln
An intellectual movement emphasizing emotions and imagination.
Romanticism
Who emerged as the leader of France after the French Revolution?
Napoleon Bonaparte
An economic system based on industrial production, rose during the Industrial Revolution and produced a new middle-class group—the industrial middle class.
Industrial Capitalism
Name of a country or empire which combines many different people from other countries into one country or empire.
Multi-national State
Which British queen was queen from 1837 to 1901 and was in power for the longest time in English history?
Queen Victoria
Who came up with the modern theory of evolution in the nineteenth century?
Charles Darwin
Daily Double: What is it called where countries get to control what happens inside their borders and can’t interfere in what happens elsewhere?
Sovereignty
The Industrial Revolution drastically changed the social life of Europe and the world by creating two new social classes. Name one of these two new social classes.
Industrial Middle Class and/or the Industrial Working Class
A common set of political beliefs. Chief among them was the protection of civil liberties, or the basic rights of all people. What is the name of a written document that guarantee all these freedoms is called what?
Bill of Rights
Daily Double: Who wrote the novel The Tale of Two Cities?
Charles Dickens
Who composed the third symphony embodying elements of romanticism?
Ludwig van Beethoven
What was one of the causes of the French Reovlution?
Unfair elections between the three estates
Poor Harvest due to weather
High taxation on the Third Estate
War debt due to American Revolution
What innovation helped drive the Industrial Revolution. Its impact was evident in factories and on the farm
Steam Power
What European country experienced a revolution in 1848?
France
What is it called in France when the people conduct a “popular vote”?
Plebiscite
How did the theory of natural selection influence the way that people saw the world?
Human beings are from nature, not God.
What revolution is often portrayed as a frenzy of amazing discoveries by brilliant men in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries? They are bookended on one end by Copernicus (1473–1543 CE) and Newton (1643–1727 CE) on the other.
Scientific Revolution
Daily Double: Why was the railroad important to the industrialization of the United States?
The country became a single massive market for the manufactured goods of the Northeast.
Name one of the issues that was to be discussed at the banquet to be held on February 22, 1849, by King Louis Philipe.
Economic conditions, government corruption, and the fact that so few people could vote.
On March 3, 1861, Czar Alexander II issued an emancipation edict, which did what?
Freed the serfs
What was the name of the book written in 1818 by Mary Shelley that was inspired by many scientific inventions before it?
Frankenstein
What revolution led to this country's independence from France and it also led to the end of slavery in their country?
Haitian Revolution