World History- Chapter 19 – Flashcards
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The production of ___ was one of the first industries to be affected by the Industrial Revolution.
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Cotton cloth
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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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___ is the belief that people should be as free as possible from government restraints.
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Liberalism
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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 U.S.
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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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Who developed a steam engine that could drive machinery?
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James Watt
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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 to 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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The ___ established a self-governing Canadian nation.
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British North America Act
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Among other things, the romantics valued...
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Individualism, the belief in the uniqueness of each person.
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Who proposed the germ theory of disease?
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Charles Darwin
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___ was a literary and visual arts movement that rejected romanticism.
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Realism
