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.
III. 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.
IV. Possible Identifications:
Enclosure Charles Townsend Jethro Tull James Watt
Thomas Newcomen Abraham Darby Smelt Capital
Factory/factory system Turnpike John Kay James Hargreaves
Robert Fulton Urbanization Tenement Labor union
Child labor Luddites John Wesley Methodism
“New Middle Class” Utilitarianism Socialism Means of production
Communism Proletariat Karl Marx David Ricardo
John Stuart Mills Thomas Malthus “iron law of wages” Laissez-faire
Robert Owen Dynamo Interchangeable parts Assembly line
Stock Corporation Cartel Bessemer process
Alfred Nobel Michael Faraday Thomas Edison Monopolies
Guglielmo Marconi Wright Brothers Alfred Krupp 2nd Industrial Revolution
Germ theory Robert Koch Urban renewal Standard of living
Louis Pasteur Joseph Lister Victorian Age “new social order”/”middle
class values
Cult of domesticity Temperance movement Women’s suffrage Racism
Social gospel Atomic theory Natural selection Charles Darwin
Social Darwinism Charles Lyell Romanticism Realism
Impressionism Lord Byron Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Beethoven
Charles Dickens Gustave Courbet Claude Monet Salvation army
Public Education—changes Queen Victoria Mutual-aid societies Standard of living