Chapter 19 History

1. The production of ____ was one of the first industries to be affected by the Industrial Revolution.

cotton cloth

2. The factory created a new labor system in which

workers had to work regular hours and do the same work over and over.

3. By 1830, two-thirds of the British cotton industry's workforce were

women and children.

4. Prince Klemens von Metternich's claim that he was guided by the principle of legitimacy meant

lawful monarchs from the royal families that had ruled before Napoleon would be restored to power.

5. ____ is the belief that people should be as free as possible from government restraints.

Liberalism

6. Otto von Bismarck practiced realpolitik, which was

a theory of politics based on practical matters rather than theory or ethics.

7. ____ emphasized feelings and imagination as sources of knowing.

Romanticism

8. To Darwin, ____ was central to organic evolution.

natural selection

9. The British novelist Charles Dickens became very successful with his

realistic novels focusing on the lower and middle classes in Britain.

10. Who developed a steam engine that could drive machinery?

James Watt

11. The ____ was crucial to Britain's Industrial Revolution.

steam engine

12. The social change brought about by the Industrial Revolution was evident in the

emergence of the middle class and the working class.

13. The pitiful conditions created by the Industrial Revolution gave rise to

socialism, in which society owns and controls the means of production.

14. According the principle of intervention, the great powers of Europe had the right to

send armies into countries where there were revolutions in order to restore legitimate monarchs to power.

15. The effect of the Crimean War was to

destroy the Concert of Europe and leave Austria without friends among the great powers.

16. The ____ established a self-governing Canadian nation.

British North America Act

17. Among other things, the romantics valued

individualism, the belief in the uniqueness of each person.

18. Who proposed the germ theory of disease?

Louis Pasteur

19. ____ was a literary and visual arts movement that rejected romanticism.

Realism