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BJU World History ch 17
BJU
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History
9th Grade
03/10/2009

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In what country did the Industrial Revolution begin? In what industry did the Industrial Revolution make its real breakthrough?
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Britain, textile (cotton)
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List four inventions that aided the development of the textile industry. Identify the inventor of each.
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Flying shuttle-John Kay, spinning jenny-James Hargreaves, spinning frame-Richard Arkwright, spinning mule-Samuel Crompton, and one more.....p 447
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What is the name of the system in which workers labored at home, using their own tools and determining how much they wanted to work and produce?
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Domestic system
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Name four new methods of transportation that aided the progress of the Industrial Revolution.
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Roads-John McAdam, Train-Richard Trevithick and George Stephenson, steam ship-Robert Fulton, Plane-Orville and Wilbur Wright, car-Henry Ford
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List the four new production methods that helped manufacturers produce more goods at cheaper prices.
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Automation, Interchangeable parts, Division of labor, and the Assembly line
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Jethro Tull and Charles Townshend
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invented a planter
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Robert Bakewell
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produces larger and healthier animals
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enclosure movement
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P. 446
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factory system
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used factories to make stuff
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Henry Cort
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invented wrought iron
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Henry Bessemer
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invented a cheap way to make steel
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Thomas Alva Edison
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invented the light bulb and the phonograph
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Who is called the Father of the Industrial Revoluntion? Why?
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List six goals of the chartist movement.
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universal manhood suffrage, secret ballot, equal electoral districts, pay for members of Parliament, no property qualifications for members of Parliament, and annual elections to Parliament
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Name the two dominant prime ministers of Britain during the latter part of the nineteenth century. Give the political party of each.
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Benjamin Disraeli-Tory and William Gladstone-Liberal
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Define a "welfare state."
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a state in which the government assumes the responsibility for the material and social well-being of every individual
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What force did Karl Marx believe determined the course of history? In what famous work did he explain his socialist ideas?
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economic factors, Das Kapital
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Match each of the following men with the ministry below with which he was associated:
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Robert Raikes-Sunday schools, George Mueller-orphanages, George Williams-YMCA, William Booth-Salvation Army, Dwight L. Moody-evangelistic meetings, and Charles H. Spurgeon-pastor of the London Metropolitan Tabernacle
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William Wilberforce
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antislavery movement
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Corn Laws
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lowered the price of grain by doing what?
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Reform Bill of 1832
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lowered property qualifictions for voting, increased the electorate by fifty per cent and recognized voting districs
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Parliament Bill of 1911
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Parliament asserted itself as the supreme governing body in Britain by taking power away from .....
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Socialism
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government ownership of the means of production and the distribution of goods for the presumed welfare of society
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Utopian socialism
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man's natural goodness could be perfected; was a direct result of ....
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Robert Owen
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textile manufacturer who .....
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Friedrich Engels
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Karl Marx's friend
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proletariat
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workers
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Fabians
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sought to achieve a socialist society without a revolution
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What country was the leader in not only industrial prodution but also in attempts to help the social and political problems created by rapid industrial expansion?
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Queen Victoria
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Through the efforts of which British Prime Minister was the Reform Bill of 1867 passed?
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Name a pressing problem during Prime Minister Gladstone's ministry.
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Spurgeon
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What man laid the foundation for the modern theories of biological evolution? In what book did he set fourth his theory of "survival of the fittes"?
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Charles Darwin, Origin of Species
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Identify the contribution to science of each of the following men:
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John Dalton-elements contained atoms (he is formulator of the .....), Dmitri Mendeleev- made element chart called ...., William Roentgen-X-rays, Henry Moseley-more about atoms, Pierre amd Marie Curie-two new elements that were ......, Ernest Rutherford-atom had two parts which were...., Neils Bohr-built on Rutherfords theory and made a model of ....., and Albert Einstein-E=MC squared
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What did acvocates of the "social gospel" movement believe was the major purpose of Christianity?
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to change society thus improving the individual
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What was the new form of artistic expression in the latter half of the nineteenth century that sought to portray life as it really is?
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realism
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Identify the occupation and artistic style of each of the following:
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Charles Dickens-realist writer, Thomas Hardy-realist poet, Samuel Clements-realist writer, Leo Tolstoy-realist novelist from ....., Gustave Courbet-realist painter, Auguste Renoir-impressionist painter, Claude Monet-impressionist painter from ...., Auguste Rodin-impressionist ..., Paul Cezanne-post-impressionist painter, Vincent van Gogh-post-impressionist .......
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Impressionism
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made light and color their chief concerns
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Post-impressionism
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emphasized universal themes and outlined more clearly ...
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Debussy
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What was the forerunner to expressionism?
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p 469
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