MPCS 10 History Ch.25 &26
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 The Chartist movement pressed for what? | Pressed for other groups to vote (suffrage), annual parlimentary election, and have more rights |
| The only country to allow women to vote before 1900 was who? | New Zealand |
| The outbreak of the Civil War was a direct result of what? | The shot at Fort Sumter |
| What did not improve as a result of the Industrial Revolution? | Living and working conditions |
| Americans used the term "manifest destiny" to justify what? | The idea that the US had the right and duty to rule North America from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean |
| An entrepreneur is a type of what? | businessman- a person who organizes manages and takes risks in business |
| Before the passage of the Reform Bill of 1812, the percentage of the British population that had voting rights was about how much? | 5% |
| Being blockaded during the War of 1812 encouraged what country to use its own resources to develop independent industries? | US |
| By the late 1700, the best place to find a water frame and a spinning mule was? | England textile mills (factories)- making thread |
| Canada received the right to control its own domestic affairs when it did what? | Upper and lower Canada reunites, British immigration should be encouraged |
| In 1836, Texas fought for its independence from what country? | Mexico |
| In the 1700s, the process of enclosure tended to increase what? | crop yields |
| In the 19th century, collective bargaining was carried out between who? | workers and employers |
| In the 19th century, industrilization had the what effect on th egap between industrialized and non-industrialized countries? | It mad the gap bigger |
| How did the crop rotation system that developed in Brtain during the agricultural revolution increase crop yields? | It gave the soil more time for nutrients to get in it and grow more crops |
| In the Gadsden Purchase, the US purchased land from who? | Mexico |
| In the US, the Industrial Revolution began with the industrialization of what? | textile industry |
| Most Protestants opposed the idea of home rule in where? | Ireland - Did not want to be the minority |
| Nineteenth- century socialists argued that government should do what? | Plan the economy |
| Queen Victoria was forced to do what? | accept a less powerful role for the monarchy |
| The Catholic Emancipation Act of 1829 affected the right of Roman Catholics who lived in what country? | Ireland |
| The first country to give full voting rights to women was who? | New Zealand |
| The French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars did what to the process of industrialization in Europe? | halted trade, interrupted communication, caused inflation |
| The Great Famine was a time of widespread starvation in Ireland caused by the destruction of what crop? | Potato |
| The progroms that took place in Russia were fueled by what group? | anti-Jew group (anti-semitic) |
| The reform Bill of 1832 lowered the property requirements for voting in order to give voting rights to who? | well to do men in the middle class |
| The term "manifest destiny" describes? | The idea that the US had the right and the duty to rule North America from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean |
| The Trial of Tears was the forced westward migration of the Cherokee from Ga to where? | Oklahoma |
| Under the Meiji rulers, what country began to industrialize? | Japan |
| Utilitarianism held that government policies should promote what? | The greatest good for the greatest number of people |
| What is a type of business owned by stockholders who share in its profits but are not personally responsible for its debts? | corporation |
| What country led Europe in adopting the industrial technology of Britain? | Belgium |
| What improved as an early result of the Industrial Revolution? | daily life, life expectancy, working conditions, healthier diets, better housing |
| What increased as an early result of the Industrial Revolution? | wealth, consumer goods, tax revenues, educational opportunites |
| What is karl Marx most closely associated with? | Socialism - Marxism |
| What parts of the following present - day states were included in th eterritory ceded by Mexico as a result of the Mexican-American War? | California, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, and Colorado |
| What was th efirst area to undergo major industrialization? | England |
| What were results of the agricultural revolution in Britain? | It lead to the industrial revolution |
| When the trade union movement began in Britain, the stike was illegal action taken against who? | employers |
| Where did the British originally set up a penal colony? | Australia |
| Who are the Maori? | Polynesian people who had settled in New Zealand |
| Who believed that human actions were often unconscious reations to experiences and could be changed by training? | Ivan Pavlov |
| Who created psychoanalysis, based on th eidea that the unconsious mind has a powerful influence on behavior? | Sigmund Freud |
| Who defended the free market system of capitalism in the book, The Wealth of Nations? | Adam Smith |
| Who developed the germ theory of disease along with discovering and naming bacteria? | Loius Pasteur |
| Who developed the theory of evolution? | Charles Darwin |
| Who helped to invent the first airplane? | Wilbur and Orville Wright |
| Who invented the first practical electric light bulb? | Thomas Edison |
| Who invented the first radio? | Guglielmo Marconi |
| Who made use of the assembly line to make his factory highly efficient? | Henry Ford |
| Who participated in identifying and naming radioactivity? | Marie Curie |
| Who started a well staffed research laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersy? | Edison |
| Who invented the telephone? | Alexander Graham Bell |
| Who was a pioneer in the field of making motion pictures? | Edison |
| Who was Alfred Dreyfus? | Jewish officer in the French Army, accused of selling military secrets to Germany |
| Who won the nobel Prizes for both Physics and Chemistry? | Marie Curie |
| Who wrote the controversial book On the Ortgin of Species by Means of Natural Selection? | Darwin |
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