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4480008Explain the population in Western Europe after 1730.Huge population jump, caused by better border policing, which reduced the movement of disease-bearing animals. Improved nutrition due to increased consumption of the potato.0
4480009Define protoindustrialization.Where many people became full or part-time producers of textile and metal products, working at home in a capitalist system.1
4480010Characterize the political philosophy of the EnlightenmentEnglightenment thinkers encouraged economic and technical change, policies that would promote industry, manufacterers, and politics alike could take note from these ideas.2
4480011Characterize the population pressure in the 18th century.Upper class families faced more surviving children, tried to tighten their grip on existing offices, became harder for people who were not aristocrats to claim a high post. That reaction fed the demand for change.3
4480012Name the development that led from the population upheaval and the spread of a property-less working class working for money.These people were eager to take advantage of new labor oppurtunities, thus they formed a nucleus of new agricultural, and most of all manufacturing class.4
4480013List the causes of the American Revolution.Taxation w/o representation. Stamp Tax of 1765. No social equality.5
4480014Name the year that the American colonies set up a new constitutional structure based on Enlightenment ideas.17896
4480015List the causes of the French RevolutionsChange and tension, urged the need to limit the church, aristocracy, and the monarchy. Social changes reinforced idealogical challenges. Middle clas wanted more political role, peasants wanted more freedom7
4480016Name the year that the French Revolution began.17898
4480017Name the revolutionary symbol that was stormed on July 14th.Bastille9
4480018Name a lasting reform passed during the initial, moderate phase of the French Revolution.Massive reform against the church10
4480019Explain the radical phase of the French Revolution.Led by robesierre, worked to centralize govt, civic religion: the cult of the supreme being, executed any opposition. They made a new constitution saying that universal adult male suffrage. Nationalism.11
4480020Name the person who ushered in the final phase of the French Revolution.Robespierre12
4480021Name the year that a European allian ce finally crushed the French empire.181513
4480022Explain the peace conference at Vienna following the fall of France.They met at vienna to reach a peace settlement that would prevent further revolution, diplomats tried not to punish france too sternly to keep balance of power, they adjusted maps to keep is stable.14
4480023Define liberals and explain their political goals.They focused primarily on issues of political structure. They looked for ways to limit govt. intervention. urged rep. of propriety.15
4480024Explain the impact of the French Revolution on the rest of Europe.They had spread the idea of revolutionary legislation the idea of equality and the attack on privileged institutions. encouraged nationalism. French armies would tear down local govts. causing the people to want more nationalism. More loyal to nation. More unified.16
4480025Define Socialist and their political goals.The means of which production, distribution, and exchange of products should be regulated by the community as a whole, not by the government.17
4480026In 1820, name who Greece fought independence fromOttoman Empire18
4480027Name the nation that became independent for the first time as a result of a revolution in 1830.Belgium19
4480028Name the piece of legislation that gave the vote to many members of the middle class in Great BritainReform Bill of 183220
4480029List the causes of the Industrial Revolution in Great Britain.Resulted from a host of factors: favorable natural resources, the growth of large manufacturing sectors and the large advantages in oil trade.21
4480030Name who was responsible for the development of a steam engine that could be used for industrial production.James Watt22
4480031Name the contribution of American inventors to the Industrial Revolution.American inventors devised a production system of interchangeable parts that helped standardize and mechanize the machinery itself23
4480032List the economic changes brought about by the process of industrialization.The industrial revolution, depended on improvement in agriculture, Industr. increased manufacturing in cities,24
4480033Characterize the social disruptions of the Industrial Revolution.Families were disrupted as young adults were the prime migrants. Cities were crowded became hellhole, crime increased, new social divisions opened up, suburbanization. Work became pleasant.25
4480034Characterize middle class women and their work roles.Women were traditionally active partners to merchants, now withdrew from formal jobs, gained new roles in caring for children in the home, moral status improved.26
4480035List the activities that most Western governments encouraged during the Industrial Revolution.They encouraged railway development, they began to organize technical fairs to promote engineering and science, took greater interest in education to be more productive.27
4480036Name the movement of artisans and workers in Britain in the 1830s and 1840s aimed at obtaining the vote for all males.The chartist movement28
4480037List the regions that were troubled by rebellion in 1848.France, Western Europe, Western Europe, France29
4480038Characterize the revolutions of 1848.They were for more wide range of reform, everyone wanted different reforms, they werre quickly put down and failed. Liberals learned that revolutions were a bad idea.30
4480039Describe how the demographic transition that occurred after the Industrial Revolution to a new system promoted stable population.The western society began a demographic transition, promoted stable population levels through the low death rates and high birth rates. Children were seen as a source of emotional satisfaction and parental responsibility, not workers of the family.31
4480040Name the proportion of the Western population that enjoyed conditions above the subsistence level by 1900.2/332
4480041Explain what Louis Pasteur was responsible for.Preservation of things like milk, through pasteurization to kill germs.33
4480042List how the peasants in Europe improved their conditions as industrialization spread.Peasants began to send children to school to improve farms. Isolation of rural isolation declined, european peasants gained new ability to use market for own benefit, they learned to barter for better pay and shorter hours34
4480043Explain conservative political strategies after 1850.They used the force of nationalism to win support for the existing social order,conservatives learned how to wrap themselves in the flag to promote foreign policy and domestic calm. Expanding empire champions.35
4480044Name the British conservative Prime Minister who was responsible for extending the vote to working class males in 1867.Benjamin Disraeli36
4480045Name who was responsible for managing the unification of Italy.Count Chemeleo de Cartour37
4480046Name the German conservative who was responsible for the unification of Germany in 1871.Auto Van Bismark38
4480047Characterize the expansion of government functions in the West following 1870.Western govts introduced civil service exams on basis of talent. Schooling expanded, health went up, hospitals went up, health of prostitutes went up39
4480048Characterize the political philosophy of Karl Marx.Overthrow of capitlism by the proletariat, and the eventually attainment of a classless communism40
4480049Name the nation where socialism produced the strongest political party.Germany41
4480050Define revisionist.One who believes in change, or modification42
4480051Name who proposed evolution in 1859 as the basis of biological development.charles darwin43
4480052Describe the relationship between science and the arts in the later 19th century.The Arts began to adopt ideas of science, such as how the eye perceives color, and romanticism.44
4480053List the regions that were an area of Western expansion.The regions are Canada, Australia, New Zealand, United States (Louisiana Purchase)45
4480054Explain Britain's Australian colony.It is where they sent all their convicts, and let them sit and rot.46
4480055Explain American exceptionalism.The belief that america is inherenty better than other nations, based on our culture.47
4480056Name the countries who were members of the Triple Entente.United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Third France, Russian Empire48
4480057Name the 2 powers that Balkan nationalism initially exacerbated deteriorating relationships with.Russia and Austria Hungary49

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