Test 3/13/17 Idustrilization Flashcards
(43 cards)
The formation of the confederacy was sparked by
Abraham Lincoln election
The economic system where society owns and controls the means of production is
Socialism
The factories brought a new
Labor system
Plebiscite means
Popular vote
Charles Dickens became famous for writing novels about
Every day life or realities
Darwin wrote about…. his idea was…
Organic evolution. Central for natural selection
Garabaldi raised an army called
The red shirts
The compromise of 1867 established
The Austrian- Hungarian empire
In 1840 Britain’s most valuable product was
Coal
The belief that people should be free form the government as much as possible
Liberalism
Who built the first steam boat
Robert Fulton
The movement that emphasized feelings
Romanticism
One of the first industries affected by the revolution
Cotton industry
James watt improved
The steam engine
Who practiced realpolitik in his quest to unify his nation
Otto van Bismarck
Where did the Industrial Revolution start
Great Britain in the 1780s
Five reasons that the industrial revolution started in Britain
1-increased food supply
2- more people equals larger labor supply
3-ready supply of money to build factories
4-plentiful natural resources
5- supply of markets that gave an outlet for British goods
What was the method cottage industry
Spinners make cotton thread then weavers wove cotton thread into cloth
Who/ when invented the spinning Jenny. What did it do
James Hargreaves. 1764. Spun thread faster.
Who. What. When. Invented the water powered loom
Edmund Cartwright. 1787. Made weaving faster.
Steam power could
Power machinery
What was puddling. Who invented it.
Burned impurities out of Iron marking a higher quality iron. Henry Court Coke
Who built the first steam engine locomotive
Richard Trevithick
Who built the Rocket
George Stevenson
