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Chapter 12
Industrialism and Imperialism
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9th Grade
02/24/2015

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The factory created a new labor system in which
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workers had to work regular hours and do the same work over and over.
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By 1830, two-thirds of the British cotton industry’s workforce were
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women and children.
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Prince Klemens von Metternich’s claim that he was guided by the principle of legitimacy meant
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lawful monarchs from the royal families that had ruled before Napoleon would be restored to power.
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Otto von Bismarck practiced realpolitik, which was
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a theory of politics based on practical matters rather than theory or ethics.
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The formation of the Confederate States of America was sparked by
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the election of Abraham Lincoln as president of the United States.
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____ emphasized feelings and imagination as sources of knowing.
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Romanticism
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To Darwin, ____ was central to organic evolution.
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natural selection
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The British novelist Charles Dickens became very successful with his
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realistic novels focusing on the lower and middle classes in Britain.
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The ____ was crucial to Britain’s Industrial Revolution.
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steam engine
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The social change brought about by the Industrial Revolution was evident in the
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emergence of the middle class and the working class.
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The pitiful conditions created by the Industrial Revolution gave rise to
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socialism, in which society owns and controls the means of production.
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According the principle of intervention, the great powers of Europe had the right to
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send armies into countries where there were revolutions in order to restore legitimate monarchs to power.
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The effect of the Crimean War was to
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destroy the Concert of Europe and leave Austria without friends among the great powers.
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Who proposed the germ theory of disease?
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Louis Pasteur
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established the Austro-Hungarian Empire
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Compromise of 1867
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built the first paddle-wheel steamboat
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Robert Fulton
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political philosophy based on tradition and social stability
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conservatism
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popular vote
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plebiscite
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crucial element in Britain’s Industrial Revolution
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steam engine
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author of Madame Bovary
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Gustave Flaubert
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developed a steam engine that could drive machinery
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James Watt
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proposed the germ theory of disease
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Louis Pasteur
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system in which society owns and controls the means of production
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socialism
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raised an army called Red Shirts
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Giuseppe Garibaldi
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emphasized feelings and imagination as sources of knowing
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romanticism
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belief that people owe loyalty to a nation
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nationalism
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production done by individuals in their homes
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cottage industry
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published On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection
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Charles Darwin
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economic system based on industrial production
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industrial capitalism
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meetings of the great powers of Europe to maintain peace
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Concert of Europe
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realist artist who painted The Stonebreakers
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Gustave Courbet
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developed puddling
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Henry Cort
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politics based on practical matters rather than theory or ethics
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realpolitik
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meeting in 1814 of the great powers of Europe
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Congress of Vienna
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Explain the importance of the steam engine to Britain’s Industrial Revolution.
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Describe the Compromise of 1867 between Austria and the Hungarians.
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Describe the impact of Darwin’s ideas on the society of his time.
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Why was Czar Alexander II’s emancipation of the serfs unsuccessful as a reform?
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