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3255335320Steam EngineProvided an in animate and almost limitless source of power beyond that of wind, water or muscle and could be used to drive any number of machines as well as locomotives and oceangoing ships.0
3255335321In what respects did the roots of the Industrial Revolution lie within Europe? In what ways did that transformation have global roots?Europe's internal development that favored innovation. It's highly competitive states provided "insurance against economic and technological stagnation." Another factors was the European royals' unusual alliance with their merchant classes"1
3255335322What is distinctive about Britain that may help to explain its status as the breakthrough point of the Industrial RevolutionBritain was the most highly commercialized of Europe's larger countries. British aristocrats had been interested in the world of business. It's a policy of religious tolerance welcome people technical skills regardless of their faith. checks on royal authority provide freer arena for private enterprise than anywhere else in Europe. Science in Britain was more concerned with observation, experiment, precise measurements, mechanical devices, and practical commercial applications. They had a ready supply of coal and iron ore.2
3255335323British Royal SocietyAnd association of natural philosophy is established in 1660, saw its role of promoting useful knowledge. It established mechanics' libraries, published broadsheets and pamphlets on recent scientific advances and held frequent scientific lectures and demonstrations.3
3255335324Indian Cotton TextilesCentered in India.4
3255335325How did the industrial revolution transform British society?The British Aristocracy declined, urban wealth became more important.5
3255335326Middle-class valuesBenefited most conspicuously from the industrialization. Ideas of thrift and hard work, the rigid morality, and cleanliness characterized middle-class culture. The sensual value of that culture was "respectability" The term that combined social status and virtuous behavior.6
3255335327How did Britain's middle classes change during the 19th century?There agitation resulted in the reform bill of 1832 which broad and the right boat too many men of the middle class. Middle-class women worked productively alongside their husbands; by the late 19 century however some middle-class women began to enter teaching, clerical, in nursing professions. By the end of the 19th century this a growing class represented about 20% of Britain's population and provided new employment opportunities for women as well as men.7
3255335328Lower Middle Class Value8
3255335329Karl MarxHe was led to the conclusion that industrial capitalism was an inherently unstable system doomed to collapse a revolutionary of people that would give birth to a classless socialist society bus and in forever and should end conflict between rich and poor9
3255335330How did Karl Marx understand the industrial revolution? In what ways did his ideas have an impact in the industrializing worlds of the 19th century?He believed it was unstable and doomed to collapse. The Soviet Union was the first who took his ideas and created a pure form of communism.10
3255486842Labour PartyThe Labour Party was established in the 1890s and it advocated a reformist program and a peaceful democratic transition to socialism, BUT largely rejecting the class struggle and revolutionary emphasis of classical Marxism11
3255502250ProletariatWorking class; Marx had expected industrial capitalist society's to polarize into a small wealthy class it a huge increasingly impoverished proletariat.12
3255549712Socialism in the United StatesUnited States benefited greatly from the Industrial Revolution. It's supported a more capitalist society rather than socialist. Socialism never really took major root in the U.S.13
3255582129What were the differences between industrialization in the United States and that in Russia?The United States was the western world's most exuberant democracy in the 19 century while Russia remained the sole outpost of absolute monarchy in which the state exercise far greater control over individuals and society than anywhere else in the Western world. And autocratic Russia, change was far more often initiated by the state itself, and it's continuing efforts to catch up with the more powerful and innovative states in Europe, whereas in the United States chain bubbled up from the people of society14
3255689857Why did Marxist socialism not take root in the United States?Because the US was doing so well economically within a capitalist society. The countries remarkable economic growth generated on average a higher standard of living for American workers. Workers with property generally found socialism less attractive than those without15
3255725642ProgressesPushed for specific reforms, such as wages and hours legislation, better sanitation standards, antitrust laws, and a greater governmental intervention in the economy.16
3255750725Russian RevolutionThe in Norma's hardships of World War I coupled with the immense social tension of industrialization within a still autocratic political system, sparked the Russian Revolution of 1917. That masses of people quickly brought to power the most radical of the socialist groups operating in the country the Bolsheviks led by charismatic Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov.17
3255765746What factors contributed to the making of a revolutionary situation in Russia by the beginning of the 20th century?In the 1860s, Russia began a program of industrial development, which was more heavily directed by the state then was the case in Western Europe or the United States.18
3256234005CaudillosMilitary strongmen Who were enabled to achieve power as defenders of order and property, although they too succeeded one another with great frequency19
3256469770Latin American Export BoomLatin American exports to the industrializing countries now needed the food products, raw materials, and markets of these new nations. Latin American landowners, businessmen, and governance proved eager to supply those needs, and in the 60 years or so after by 1850, and export been increased the value of Latin American goods sold abroad by a factor of 10.20
3256497040Mexican RevolutionIn Mexico in the early 20th century, middle-class reformers joined with workers and peasants to overthrow the long dictatorship of Porfirio Diaz.21
3256556257Did Latin America follow or diverge from the historical path of Europe during the 19th century?Latin America was falling Europe in terms of its economy's grabbing and producing more than ever, a middle-class population appearing, urbanization.22
3256586888Dependent developmentCritics saw this as a new form of colonialism expressed in the power exercised by foreign investors23

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