Industrial Revolution & Nationalism

The social change brought about by the Industrial Revolution was evident in the

• emergence of middle class and working class

• famines caused by families abandoning their farms.

• cloud of air pollution that choked out the British Isles

• growing death rates from accidents on the roads.

The revolutionary outbursts in Europe in the 1830s and the 1840s were sparked by attitudes of

• nationalism

• romanticism

• religious beliefs

• conservatism

The effect of the Crimean War was to

• allow Russia to retain control of Moldavia and Walachia

• plunge the Estonian economy into a long period of decline.

• strengthen the Concert of Europe with the addition of France.

• destroy the Concert of Europe and leave Russia without allies.

The factory created a new labor system in which

• products were produced by an assembly line of workers and animals.

• workers had to work regular hours and perform repetitive tasks.

• machines were valued more highly than the workers who ran them.

• workers had to adjust to periods of hectic work followed by idle periods.

Foreign investors ensured their continued domination of the Latin American economy by

• enlisting powerful caudillos to subdue any possible uprisings among the peasant classes.

• draining raw materials from Latin American countries while keeping them dependent on manufactured goods.

• building factories in urban areas of Latin America while eliminating lucrative cash crops.

• refusing to develop transportation and communication systems in rural areas of Latin America.

The greatest threat to American unity in the mid-1800s was

• slavery

• industrialization

• British imperialism

• religious intolerance

One reason Great Britain led the way in the Industrial Revolution was that it

• disregarded the dignity of factory workers

• was ruled by a constitutional monarchy

• had a lot of money and natural resources

• practiced laissez-faire economics.

The harsh conditions created by the Industrial Revolution gave rise to

• a movement toward socialism

• the iron workers revolt of 1886

• the organization of charitable groups

• government oversight in factories

The Frankfurt Assembly failed to achieve

• German unification

• peace with france

• religious reforms

• universal male suffrage

Giuseppe Garibaldi

• created a dual monarchy

• leader in Italian unification

• Mexican priest who led native people in a revolt against Spanish rule