Chapter #5 & #6 Exam Review Notes

Matching Chapter #5 1. Turnpike 2. Enterprise 3. Tenement 4. James Watt 5. Proletariat 6. Robert Owen 7. Anesthetic 8. Urbanization 9. Entrepreneurs 10. Jeremy Bentham

Multiple Choice Chapter #5 1. Land enclosure in the 1600s and 1700s resulted in… 2. Abraham Darby made better quality iron by… 3. Steam became an efficient power source because of improvements made by… 4. The slave trade contributed to the rise of industry in Britain by… 5. The development of steam power enabled the growth of… 6. In what ways were railroads improvements over canals? 7. The putting out system was a method of… 8. Theo people who lived in tenements in industrial cities were part of the…

9. Laws called “factory acts” were passed in the early 1800s to… 10. Most early factory workers were women because… 11. Long term result of the Industrial Revolution… 12. According to laissez faire economists, the cure for poverty was… 13. Jeremy Bentham believed that… 14. According to socialists, the solution to poverty and injustice was… 15. Which group established communities where all work is shared and all property is owned in common?

Matching Chapter #6 1. temperance movement 2. urban renewal 3. Alfred Nobel 4. Claude Monet 5. Louis Pasteur 6. Ludwig Van Beethoven 7. Guglielmo Marconi 8. women’s suffrage 9. stock 10. standard of living

Multiple Choice Chapter #6 1. Japan lacked many basic resources, yet industrialized rapidly after 1868 because… 2. Today’s electric generators work on the same principle as the dynamo invented by… 3. A production method in which workers repeatedly perform one task in the manufacturing process… 4. The population in Europe exploded between 1800 and 1900 in large part because… 5. The popular saying, “A man’s home is his castle” reflected what middle-class value of the late 1800s? 6. The purpose of Normal Schools was to train students to be… 7. Englishman John Dalton made an important breakthrough in chemistry by showing that…

8. What theory applied the idea of natural selection to the development of business and society? 9. Romanticism can be described as a revolt against the Enlightenment’s emphasis on… 10. An artist of the mid-1800s who portrayed the harsh lives of slum dwellers was probably using what artistic style? 11. What limited the effectiveness of women involved in the temperance movement? 12. Who discovered that sterilizing surgical instruments with antiseptics would help prevent infection? 13. The Bessemer process was a method for producing… 14. In the late 1800s, what did Charles Lyell accomplish? 15. A company that sells ownership shares to many investors is a…

Short Essay  Chapter 5: Discuss how technological change and population growth launched the Industrial Revolution in Britain.  Chapter 6: Briefly summarize the theory of Social Darwinism. To what extent do you think that this was a correct or incorrect application of Darwin’s ideas?