Change & Continuity
What was important about interchangable parts?
Machines could be repaired
How did Industrialization effect Western Europe's GDP?
They were producing more (it went up)
What invention kickstarted the Industrial Revolution
Steam Engine
What ratio of children were working outside the home before the age of 10?
1 in 8
Jacob Riis was a photographer who took pictures of factory workers and tenemant homes.
Sinclair was an author who wrote about conditions in a meat-packing plant
What was the name of the group of lace artisans that resisted industrialization?
Luddites
What is Sakoku?
Willing self-isolation in Japan
What invention increased slavery?
Cotton Gin
What was the major difference between women of the laboring class and middle class women?
Women in the lower class had to work in factories and mines.
Women of the middle class wanted to stay at home to show their status and class.
Compare the Luddites to the Lowell Mill Women.
Luddites were artisans who resisted industrialization
Lowell Mill Women were a women's union that protested how workers were treated as a result of industrialization.
What is urbanization?
growth of the percent of the population living in cities
What was included in the new Mexican Constitution when it was created in 1917?
Male Suffrage
Redistribution of Land
New Workers Rights
What inventions had a massive impact on the outcome of WWI?
Airplane and machine gun
What is consumerism?
spending money on non-essential goods. Driven by adverts
Compare the free market to monopolies.
The free market allows the fluctuations of the market to decide prices
Monopolies eliminate competition and therefore do not allow the market to determine price
Latin America
How did the government of Chile respond to nitrate workers forming a union and protesting?
They killed over 1,000 miners, women, and children as a response.
What invention helped to spread communication around the world?
Telegraph
What was a famous union started by female textile workers?
Lowell Mill Women's Union
Compare industrialization in Britain to industrialization in Russia.
Russia initially resisted industrialization. They industrialized much later than Britain
Britain was the beginning point of industrialization. Individuals drove industrialization.
Why did China and India have a decline in their GDP?
They could not compete with industrialized nations
What was included in the Treaty of Kanagawa?
Opened trade in Japan with American vessels in some ports
Protection for American sailors in Japan
Formation of a US Consulate in Japan
What is the difference between a steam engine and an internal combustion engine?
an internal combustion engine uses gasoline
What is the idea of domesticity
a term used to describe the development of housewives and homemaker women who
Particularly middle class women
Compare Industrialization in the US to industrialization in Japan
Japan had state-funded programs to increase industrialization because they started so much later than the US