Chapter 19 history

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Which of the following is the belief that people should be as free as possible from government restraints

Liberalism

Who proposed the germ theory disease?

Louis Pasteur

The factory created a new labor system in which

Workers had to work regular hours and do the same work over and over

According to the passage, how many hours did workers spend working each day?

11 hours

Otto von Bismarck practiced realpolitik, which was

A theory of politics based on practical matters rather than theory or ethics

Essay question: explain the importance of the steam engine to Britain's industrial revolution

Answer found on page 616 in textbook

Essay question: what did Darwin believe and why were his ideas controversial

Answer found on page 642 in the textbook

The ___ was crucial to Britain's Industrial Revolution

Bicycle

By 1840 Britain's most valuable product was

Cotton cloth

The inventions of Watt, Hargreaves, and Cartwright contributed to the manufacture of

Cotton cloth

The production of ___ was one of the first industries to be affected by the Industrial Revolution.

Cotton cloth

Camillo di Cavour made a military alliance with Austria and then provoked French emperor Louis-Napoleon into declaring war in 1859.

False

Italy, Russia, France, and the papal states met to discuss their common interest in the concert of Europe.

False

The French defeated Prussia in the Franco-Prussian war.

False

The percent of the population of England living in urban areas decreased between 1750 and 1851

False

The rapid population growth in England after 1750 was in part due to decreasing birth rates

False

The social change brought about by the industrial revolution was evident in the

Figure pollution that choked the British Isles

In which country did the Industrial Revolution begin?

Great Britain

Among other things, the Romantics valued

Individualism, the belief in the uniqueness of each person

Which of the following is true of Britain's population in the 19th century

It grew less rapidly than the population of the United States

Who developed a steam engine that could drive machinery

James Watt

William I of Prussia was proclaimed ___, emperor, of the second German Empire

Kaiser

Prince Klemens von Metternich's claimed that he was guided by the principle of legitimacy meant that

Lawful monarchs from the royal families that had will before Napoleon would be restored to power

The outcome of the Civil War in the United States was

National unity

According to Darwin, which of the following was central to organic evolution?

Natural selection

In his novels Charles Dickens shows the realities of life for the ___ in the early part of the industrial age

Poor

This queen, who rain from 1837 to 1901, reflected the British feeling of national pride.

Queen Victoria

The British novelist Charles Dickens became very successful with his

Real estate novels focusing on the lower and middle classes of Britain

___ was a literary and visual arts movement that rejected romanticism

Realism

Which of the following emphasize feelings and imagination as sources of knowing

Romanticism

According to the principle of intervention, the great powers of Europe have the right to

Send armies into countries where there were revolutions in order to restore legitimate monarchs to power

The pitiful conditions created by the industrial revolution gave rise to

Socialism, in which society owns and controls the means of production and

Some Romantics, such as Mary Shelley, thought industrialization would cause people to become alienated from the natural world in their selves. Which scientific or industrial advance did not occur before the publication date of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

The discovery of radium

The formation of the Confederate states of America was sparked by

The election of Abraham Lincoln was president of the United States

Based on the charts, which of the following is true?

The growth rate in the miles of railroad tracks in the United States after 1870 was more rapid than in Britain

What does Metternich describes the most important concern for nation?

The stability of its laws

Based on this passage, one would conclude that

The supply of workers is plentiful

After the defeat of Napoleon, the victors-- Great Britain, Austria, Prussia, and Russia-- wanted to restore the old order.

True

After the failure of the revolution of 1848, people looked to Italian state of Piedmont for leadership in achieving Italian unification.

True

After the invention of the spinning Jenny, cloth weaving could not keep up with the speed of the speeding cotton thread.

True

Conservatism is based on tradition and I believe in the value of social stability

True

Overall the population of England increase between 1750 and 1851

True


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