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WHA Unit 5 Review
Question | Answer |
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Who is known as the father of American industry? | Samuel Slater, because he built the Arkwright machinery from memory at a mill in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. |
Who built the world's first central electric power plant? | Thomas Edison |
The invention of the "flying shuttle" by John Kay caused | many weavers to lose their jobs |
Mass production increased the quantity of goods produced and made more ___________ available to more people. | consumer goods |
What was a negative result of the growth of the textile industry in Great Britain? | the spread of slavery in the U.S. |
Why was a region of Northwestern England became known as the "black country"? | iron-smelting factories polluted the air |
What replaced the mercantile system in Britain? | laissez-faire economics |
What was a solution to the scarce living and working spaces in cities? | constructing skyscrapers |
Joseph Lister's work with antiseptics would have been impossible without the discoveries of | Louis Pasteur |
What development allowed cities to expand to the suburbs? | public transportation systems |
What is the correct sequence of French Rulers starting with Charles X? | Charles X, Louis Philippe, Louis Napoleon |
How did Augstin de Iturbide become emperor of Mexico? | by getting all groups to agree on a less radical independence settlement |
Work stoppages used to pressure employers to improve working conditions | strikes |
Economic system free of regulation is called | laissez-faire |
Government owns the means of production and controls economic planning | communism |
The process of changing to power driven machinery is called | industrialization |
What are the factors of production? | land, labor, and capital |
Government owns property and controls industry | socialism |
What is utopianism? | The belief that communities can solve society’s problems |
What was the Victorian Era? | Period in England characterized by democratic reforms and highly-ornamented possessions |
What showed a level of anti-semitism in France? | the Dreyfus Affair |
Elected president of the Second Republic in France and late became emperor | Louis Napoleon |
What were tenements? | buildings where poor immigrants lived in cities |
What event deposed Louis Philippe? (got rid of him) | Revolution of 1848 |
True or False: Changing from the cottage industry system to the factory system was beneficial for all workers. | False |
Who was Robert Fulton? | An American engineer who is known for developing the first steamboat. |