APWH CHAPTER 17 – Flashcards
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The economic development of latin america was heavily dependent on?
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Foreign Captial
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WHich of the folllowing explains why industrialization first occured in Europe?
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European rulers fostered unusually close alliances with their merchants
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What reflects Europe's industrial revolution which most historians criticize as Eurocentric and deterministic?
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Technological creativity outside of Europe had slowed down cosiderably of stagnated by the early modern era
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The notion that European culture is inhernetly more suited to industry and technology?
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Until about 1750, core areas of Eurppe India nad CHina enjoyed similar levels of economic development
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Why britan was the first euriopean country to industrialize?
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The scientific revolution in great britain fostered technological innovation
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In what way was the industrial revolution a global phenomenon by the end of the 19th century?
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Even regions that failed to industrialize were impacted by industrilization
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In 19th century Britain, women from the laboring classes found jobs as?
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Factory workers and domestic servants
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How did the working class movement in Britain differ from the one in russia?
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It advocated a reformist program and a peaceful transition to socialism
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The reason for the failure of socailism to take root in the United States?
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The higher standard of living enjoyed by most American workers
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Played a greater role in industrial development in Russia thatn in the United States or Western Europe?
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The state
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Industrialization led to violent social revolution only in?
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Russia
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How did contact with other civilizations contribute to European industrial revolution?
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It enabled Europe to draw disproportionately on the worlds resources
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Describes the situation in Latin America after independence?
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Politically the area was plagued by internal divisions regional revolts and international wars
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Accompanied industrialization wherever it occured in the world?
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Urbanization
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Describes how the movement towards industrialiation in the 19th century affected Latin America?
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Latin America provided the food products, raw materials, and markets for industrializing countries
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describes how the industrial revolution unfolded?
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Began independently in only one place, Great britan
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In the 18th centrury the industrial revolution solved an emerging energy crisis?
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It introduced the use of coal oil and natural gas as sources of fuel
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Britan's geography affected its industrial revolution by?
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Coal and iron ore deposits were abundant and close to each other
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As a result of the industrial revolution?
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A increase in production in mining manufacturing and sevices
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The following group beneitted the most in the industrial revolution in Great Britain?
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The middle class
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In the 19th centruy Britain most members of the aristocracy dervied their wealth from?
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landownership
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THis group made a global migration because it was an appealing option for many Europeans during the nineteenth century?
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The demand for labor overseas
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Describes a featrue of Karl marx's vision of the society he predicted would emrge after the collapse of capitalism?
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A society without classes and conflict
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THe group in the US in the early 20th centrury that pressed for reforms to correct their abuses of capitalist industrialization?
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The progressiveness
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Most of European capital was invested in Latin America was used to finance ?
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Railroads
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The only country in Latin America to experience a nationwide revolution in the early twentieth century ?
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Mexico
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Which of the following is a phrase that has been used to describe the form of economic growth in Latin America in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries?
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Depended development
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The following was associated with the middle class culture in 19th century Britain ?
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Hard work
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The following was a factor that pushed many Europeans to immigrate In the nineteenth century?
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The decline in peasant farming in their homelands
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Whose perspective is reflected in this response to the proposal for a ten-hour workday in nineteenth-century Britain? "To produce the same quantity of work under a ten hour bill will require an additional outlay of 3,000 or 4,000 pounds...?
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A factory owner
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In the communist manifesto, what special term do Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels use to describe this group? "These laborers, who must sell themselves piecemeal, are a commodity, like every other article of commerce, and are consequently exposed to all the vicissitudes of completion, to all the fluctuations of the market?
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The proletariat
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Which group does the nineteenth century writer Samuel Smiles describe as similar to "savage tribes" who "debase themselves by the vices which accompany civilization, but make no use whatever of its benefits and advantages"?
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"He's only a weaver that no one owns"
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Which of the following reflects the perspective of skilled artisans who lost their means of livelihood as a result of the industrial revolution?
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Increases education
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n visual source 17.1, the figures depicted in the engraving of the 1851 Crystal Palace Exhibition suggests that those who benefited from the industrial revolution were?
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The wealthy elite
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What is the function of the train in figure 17.2
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Travel for leisure
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Which detail in the painting of female laborers during dinner hour in visual source 17.3 conveys a positive impression of factory life?
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The activities in which women are engaged
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In the photograph of a factory in visual source 17.4, what is the male figure smoking a pipe most likely doing?
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Supervising the workers
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Which group would agree with the message implied in the cartoon depicted in visual source 17.5 ?
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Marxist
