Chapter 9: Industrialization around the World Flashcards
(37 cards)
What happens when industrialization occurs?
- everything expands faster and populates
- immediate access to goods
- discrimination of different social classes
Mass production
-greatest, quickest, and most production
-more and more average and lower people start to afford more
enclosure movement
- took the common owners land and allowed it to be privately owned
- small community farmers lost their land and had to adjust to a whole new way of life, find a job
-CITIES GREW AND WORKED IN FACTORIES(didn’t require new skill or to learn new stuff)
Social Changes And Pyramid
1) Aristocracy: businessmen
2) Middle Class: Smaller businessmen
3) Lower Middle Class: unemployed women and men
4) Laborers and peasants
Class consciousness
- being aware where everyone lives in their class
-create similarities to each other
key to capitalism
competition
- pricing= better deals
industrialization in Russia: Main focuses…
-railroads
-foreign investment
Where: St. Petersburg, Kiev, and Moscow
Russia’s Major industries
-steel
-coal
-oil
-textiles
Why don’t the businessmen and professionals(growing middle class) like the TSAR?
- no rebellion because it keeps contracts and workers in check
Who created the soviets?
-factory workers who had a major sense of class consciousness that made them easily susceptible to radicalizing
Industrialism in Latin America: Why was their political life unstable?
conservatives: wanted to support status quo
liberals: wanted to get rid of Catholic church, social reforms, and federalism
What were some of their struggles?
-decimated populations
-farms abandoned
-international trade and foreign investment declined
Export Boom in Latin America
- the goods are leaving country and its not beneficial because investment isn’t going back to them
Major LA exports
Central America: bananas
Cuba: sugar
Bolivia: tin
Why didn’t industrial revolution take place in Mexico?
-had small market for manufactured goods
- their population was poor
- no incentive to invest in manufacaturing
Why were LA economies reliant on foreign investment?
-led to new form of colonialism
-indirect imperialism»economic control
Colonialsm in asia, africa, and oceania imperialism
-connecting industialism and imperialism
-imperialism wouldn’t happen without industrialism
Why did Europeans intentionally create racism?
-they based it off of where you came from and where you were in the social ladder
- they tried to base it off of science for ‘proof’
imperialism
open up new areas to absorb excess population and create new markets for products
-building an empire
new technologies
-steam engine; without it not able to get up river, wouldn’t get to africa to access all the goods they possess
-underwater telegraph
-malaria drug quinine
-improved weapons
-suez canal
goals of imperialism
-desperation> makes people make interesting decisions; no one stuck up for other colonies getting colonized because they benefit from it
-used new tone of language to make themselves feel more superior
communism
- command economy
-gov/public economy
decisions: government
capitalism
-market/free market economy
-private ownership
decisions: private individuals
socialism
-mixed economy
-combo
decisions: both