An Era of European Imperialism, 1800-1914

Which engineer improved the steam engine so it could drive machinery?

• James Watt

• Robert Fulton

• Henry Cort

• Robert Owen

Where did labor for the factories in the United States mostly come from?

• Factories from the Northeast

• Native American population

• Southern plantations

• Farm population

In what did industrialization trigger a dramatic increase?

• Diseases

• City populations

• Agricultural jobs

• Death rates

Why were factory workers forced to work in shifts?

• To keep the machines producing at a steady rate

• Because women had to stay at home with their children

• Because workers did not want to rise early

• To give them diversity in the tasks performed

Who was the most influential leader at the Congress of Vienna meeting in 1814?

• Charles X

• Louis-Napoleon

• Klemens von Metternich

• Ludwig van Beethoven

What ideology or ideologies were behind the 1830 revolutions?

• Radicalism

• Liberalism and nationalism

• Socialism

• Romanticism and Realism

Who was the politician who practiced realpolitik?

• Camillo di Cavour

• Giuseppe Garibaldi

• Otto von Bismarck

• Klemens von Metternich

What was the largest problem in czarist Russia?

• Poor soil

• Brutal weather

• Lack of ports

• Serfdom

Why did the liberals favor a government ruled by a constitution?

• To give everyone the right to vote

• To guarantee the rights they sought to preserve

• To do away with the need for a monarch

• To let the lower classes share power

What did romantics view as the direct expression of the soul?

• Prose

• Poetry

• Liberalism

• Nature