Industrial Revolution | ||
#1 | Which industry involved women spinning and weaving cloth in their homes? | Cottage Industry |
#2 | Which transportation method greatly increased the transportation of resources and goods in Britain in the eighteenth century? | Railroad |
#3 | Which industry did James Watt’s improved steam engine depend upon for fuel? | Coal |
#4 | In the 1780s the building of new and stronger machines was made possible by Henry Cort’s new process called puddling, which used coke to burn away impurities in what? | Iron Ore |
#5 | What population shifts typically occurred with industrialization? | Urbanization |
Science | ||
#1 | Which scientist published his theory of relativity, stating that space and time are relative to the observer? | Albert Einstein |
#2 | Whose theories of organic evolution, natural selection, and survival of the fittest emphasized that some species were meant to survive while others were meant to die out? | Charles Darwin |
#3 | Which scientist came to believe that atoms were not just hard material bodies, but small active worlds with differing numbers of electrons? | Marie Curie |
#4 | What did Robert Fulton build that made transportation on waterways easier in the U.S.? | Paddle-Wheel Steamboat |
#5 | Which 1787 invention by Edmund Cartwright made improvements in the weaving of cloth? | Water-Powered Loom |
Economic Problems | ||
#1 | Famine caused by the failure of which crop from 1845-1852 in Ireland led to the deaths of over 1-million people and caused many to migrate to cities and the U.S.? | Potato |
#2 | On December 20, 1860 South Carolina seceded from the U.S. and began which war? | American Civil War |
#3 | Which type of economic system involves a government controlling some means of production, such as factories or utilities? | Socialist |
#4 | Which type of economic system, based on industrial production, resulted in the new industrial middle class? | Industrial Capitalist |
#5 | Which discredited economist wrote in 1798 that populations tend to grow faster than food supplies over the long term leading to famine, disease, and war? | Thomas Malthus |
1848 | ||
#1 | In 1848, which of the following included 38 independent German states of varying sizes? | German Confederation |
#2 | What does the title Kaiser mean in German? | Caesar |
#3 | In 1848, which of the following included the Kingdom of Piedmont, the Two Sicilies, the Papal States, Lombardy, Venetia, and several other smaller states? | Italian States |
#4 | Which term is defined as the sense of unique identity of a people based on common language, religion, and national symbols? | Nationalism |
#5 | In 1848, which empire was a multinational state of Germans, Czechs, Hungarians, Slovaks, Romanians, Slovenes, Poles, Croats, Serbians, Ukrainians, & Italians? | Austrian Empire |
Political Theories | ||
#1 | In general, what type of written document sets out the freedoms and rights of individuals? | Bill of Rights |
#2 | What does universal male suffrage mean? | All Men Can Vote |
#3 | Which political philosophy that grew out of the Enlightenment held that people should be as free as possible from governmental restraint and included basic rights for all people? | Liberalism |
#4 | Which political philosophy that resulted after the 1848 revolutions in Europe was based on tradition and a belief in the value of social stability? | Conservatism |
#5 | Which principle held that the great powers of Europe had the right to send armies into countries to put down revolutions and restore legitimate kings to their thrones? | Interventionism |
Final Question | |