Industrial Revolution Study Guide

Villalobos 

  World History 

2008‐09 

Study Guide: Industrial Revolution Unit I.

Test Format: Test format will be objective (multiple choice), identifications, and political cartoons. For the identifications, begin with a brief identification and/or definition and include significance of item, which contains an explanation of why the item is important and include examples.

II.

Topics from the Learning Objectives: 1. Explain why Britain was the first nation to industrialize and how it was accomplished. 2. Trace the spread of the industrial revolution onto the continent of Europe and to the United States, and show how it differed from country to country. 3. Explain how industrialization affected population growth and life in cities—the urbanization process. Keep the Urbanization Game in mind. 4. Describe the effects industrialization had on class structures and the new ways of life for each of the new classes. 5. Outline the various plans of reform offered by people concerned with the working and living conditions of urban laborers and discuss what happened to each plan. 6. List important changes in the industrial economy & discuss the characteristics of the different economic classes. 7. Explain Karl Marx’s motives and methods as he wrote his books, and account for his certainty that he knew the future. 8. Describe the advances in science during the middle and later nineteenth century, and show how these advances affected European society, including culture. 9. Examine the role of women in the workplace and the home, and changes in the nature of family life. 10. Discuss the characteristics of the nineteenth century working class and how it related to national political parties. 11. Trace the development of education and leisure activities in the new urban environment and how these affected nineteenth century families. Reference: For reference help; pages 212-213 & 264-265, in Course Documents article that overviews IR, power-points, page 252 “Cause & Effect” chart, and textbook reading homework. Possible Identifications:

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Enclosure Thomas Newcomen Factory/factory system Robert Fulton Child labor “New Middle Class” Communism John Stuart Mills Robert Owen Stock Alfred Nobel Guglielmo Marconi Germ theory Louis Pasteur

Charles Townsend Abraham Darby Turnpike Urbanization Luddites Utilitarianism Proletariat Thomas Malthus Dynamo Corporation Michael Faraday Wright Brothers Robert Koch Joseph Lister

Jethro Tull Smelt John Kay Tenement John Wesley Socialism Karl Marx “iron law of wages” Interchangeable parts Cartel Thomas Edison Alfred Krupp Urban renewal Victorian Age

Cult of domesticity Social gospel Social Darwinism Impressionism Charles Dickens Public Education—changes

Temperance movement Atomic theory Charles Lyell Lord Byron Gustave Courbet Queen Victoria

Women’s suffrage Natural selection Romanticism Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Claude Monet Mutual-aid societies

James Watt Capital James Hargreaves Labor union Methodism Means of production David Ricardo Laissez-faire Assembly line Bessemer process Monopolies 2nd Industrial Revolution Standard of living “new social order”/”middle class values Racism Charles Darwin Realism Beethoven Salvation army Standard of living