Study Guide

Question 1

What battle marked the final end to Napoleon and the French Revolution in 1815?

Answer 1

Battle of Waterloo

Question 2

What was the main goal of the congress of Vienna in 1815?

Answer 2

To prevent another revolution in Europe by creating a “balance of power”

Question 3

What did the Karlsbad Decrees do in the early 1800s?

Answer 3

Limit freedom of speech

Question 4

Communist Manifesto; socialism and communism

Answer 4

Karl Marx

Question 5

The Wealth of Nations,”Laissez-faire” economics; capitalism

Answer 5

Adam Smith

Question 6

The Origin of Species the theory of evolution

Answer 6

Charles Darwin

Question 7

Candide; “I may not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it”: free speech

Answer 7

Voltaire

Question 8

2nd Treatise on Government; “life, liberty, and property”

Answer 8

John Locke

Question 9

The widespread exchange of animals, plants, culture, human populations, and ideas between the Old World (Europe/Asia/Africa) and New World (the Americans)

Answer 9

Columbian Exchange

Question 10

Reduce the power of the nobility and church gave it to the common man

Answer 10

Liberalism movement

Question 11

The belief that people’s loyalty should be to a nation of people who share a common culture and history

Answer 11

Nationalism

Question 12

Who believed in “Liberal” political philosophy in the 1800s?

Answer 12

The Middle-class, including business leaders and merchants that wanted elected parliaments, but thounght only the educated and landowners should vote.

Question 13

Who believed in “conservative” political philosophy in the 1800s?

Answer 13

The nobility and the wealthy that wanted to continue traditional monarchies

Question 14

Who believed in “radical” political philosophy in the 1800s?

Answer 14

People that waned democracy and the ideals of the French Revolution of all men

Question 15

Argued that whites and the rich were genetically superior to other races

Answer 15

Herbert Spencer

Question 16

Seed drill; enclosures; selective breeding of livestock

Answer 16

Agriculture

Question 17

A culture that welcomed change and innovation

Answer 17

Social/Political

Question 18

Natural harbors; abundant coal and iron ore

Answer 18

Natural resources

Question 19

Efficient baking system; entrepreneurs

Answer 19

Economic

Question 20

The resources needed ti produce goods and services

Answer 20

factors of production

Question 21

Improved the steam engine to make it efficient

Answer 21

James Watt

Question 22

Built the earliest steam engine for coal mines

Answer 22

Thomas Newcomen

Question 23

Flying shuttle to speed up textile production

Answer 23

John Kay

Question 24

Created seed drill; improved agriculture output

Answer 24

Jethro Tull

Question 25

Railroads/locomotives; steamboat/canal boats; modern factories

Answer 25

Invented right after the steam engine

Question 26

Grew the most during the industrial revolution

Answer 26

Middle class

Question 27

Average Working day in the factories

Answer 27

12 hours a day and 6 days a week

Question 28

Was created to improve wages and working conditions

Answer 28

Labor Union

Question 29

The growth of cities, where less people live in rural areas

Answer 29

Urbanization

Question 30

A stronger country controlling a weaker country or territory

Answer 30

Imperialism

Question 31

Led to the development of railroads and steamboats

Answer 31

Steam engine

Question 32

Used to treat malaria

Answer 32

Quinine

Question 33

Allowed for communication over long distances

Answer 33

telagraph

Question 34

Quicker method for manufacturing steel, more durable than iron

Answer 34

Bessemer Process

Question 35

Gave European armies the ability to control weaker countries

Answer 35

Maxim Gun

Question 36

Belief in European Superiority

Answer 36

First factor to lead to imperialism

Question 37

Europeans' need for natural resources

Answer 37

Second factor to lead to imperialism

Question 38

Europeans having better technology and weapons

Answer 38

Third factor to lead to imperialism

Question 39

Development of quinine

Answer 39

Fourth factor to lead to imperialism

Question 40

First new form of transportation revolutionize life in Britain

Answer 40

Huge increase in skilled jobs and a new middle class

Question 41

Third new form of transportation revolutionize life in Britain

Answer 41

Increased the agriculture and fishing industries

Question 42

Second new form of transportation revolutionize life in Britain

Answer 42

Cheaper transportation of goods and raw materials

Question 43

Fourth new form of transportation revolutionize life in Britain

Answer 43

Travel much easier

Question 44

What mainland Europe lag behind Britain in its attempt

Answer 44

The french revolution and Napoleonic of Europe

Question 45

How did industrialization lead to global inequality?

Answer 45

Countries in Europe and the US became much wealthier

Question 46

Raw materials that Europe took and used that came from Africa

Answer 46

Minerals (gold and diamonds)

Question 47

Belief in the theory of evolution and natural selection

Answer 47

Social Darwinism 1

Question 48

Belief that evolution and natural selection apply to human society

Answer 48

Social Darwinism 2

Question 49

Belied that racism is part of human society and cannot be avoided

Answer 49

Social Darwinism 3

Question 50

Company that controlled most of India during the 1700s

Answer 50

British East India Company

Question 51

Indian troops who served in the British army

Answer 51

Sepoys

Question 52

Indian and Muslim soldiers refused to use the new Enfield Rifle Cartridge

Answer 52

Sepoy Mutiny

Question 53

2 countries that disappeared during the renaissance and protestant reformation but returned in 1815 and 1817

Answer 53

Germany and Italy

Question 54

Why did china resist trading with European Countries ?

Answer 54

China thought that Europe didn't need manufactured products and saw them as inferior to their culture