Ch. 23: Industrialization and Nationalism

The Industrial Revolution increased people’s interest in

• feelings and emotions.

• theories of business management.

• the price of goods.

• scientific research.

Louis Pasteur proposed

• the concept of atomic weight.

• the germ theory of disease.

• a theory of electricity.

• that Darwin be excommunicated.

Jose de San Martín and Símon Bolívar led South American independence movements against

• Mexico.

• Portugal.

• the United States.

• Spain.

The factory created a new labor system in which

• products were produced by assembly line of workers & animals

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

• machines were valued more highly than the workers.

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

What did the Austrian government want to do after agreeing to make reforms?

• improve peoples’ lives by carrying out each reform

• give each nation’s legislature control over its own people

• unite all its nations by instituting a single language

• take back control of the nations in its empire

Why did revolutions in the major cities of the Austrian Empire fail in 1848 and 1849?

• The revolutionaries failed to have support of their people.

• Austria made some changes and used its military & Russia's.

• Very few groups in the empire took part in the rebellions.

• Austrian officials gave liberal reforms, stopping revolts.

How did the revolts in France affect other countries of Europe?

• The French preferred to keep news of their revolts secret.

• France’s revolts led other countries to demand change also.

• Other countries avoided following France’s example.

• Monarchs fled for their lives after hearing of the revolts.

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

• emergence of the middle class and the working class.

• growing death rates across Europe.

• thick air pollution that choked the British Isles.

• widespread famines caused by families abandoning farms.

Abolitionism, which threatened to remove much of the free labor from plantations in the US, was

• a movement to do away with slavery.

• a plan to hire workers.

• the system of using Africans as laborers.

• the method of harvesting crops in the South.

Great Britain experienced stability partly because it

• gave the industrial middle class the vote.

• gave women the vote.

• built up the British navy.

• expanded railroads.