which of the following was most likely to characterize a cottage worker?
Worked at his or her own pace
All of the following were reasons for why britain was the first to industrialize except
britain had a domestic market with many local protective barriers
The energy crisis of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries was solved by reliance on
coal and steam
The most significant technological advance made during the industrial Revolution was the
Which of the following was passed by the british parliament to outlaw unions and strikes
The combination acts
The growth of the railroad caused all of the following except
an increase in the demand for cottage industry goods
The industrial development of continental Europe was delayed by
The french Revolution and Napoleonic wars
The british workers' campaign to gain the franchise between 1838 adn 1848 was called the
Which of the following was not characteristic of Robert Owen
He was a scholar who wanted to implement his socialist ideas
William Cockerill's cotton-spinning plant in Belgium was controversial because
he had illegally exported technology from Britain
By the end of the nineteenth century large decreases in per capital industrial levels had occured in
It appears that during the industrial Revolution in Britain, the gross national product
rose more rapidly than the per capita consumption of goods.
Which of the following people was part of the romantic movement of the nineteenth century?
Which of the following statements about the peace settlement worked out at the congress of vienna is true
Belgium and holland were united, and prussia received territory on France's eastern border
The problemn that almost led to war among the major powers in 1815 was
Russian and Prussian territorial demands
Adam smith would have been likely to agree that
Increased competition benefits all classes of society
After the peace settlement of Vienna there were
thirty-eight independent german states, including austria and prussia.
In his writings, Karl Marx drew heavily on the ideas of
Hegel, especially the dialectic process of history.
The english corn laws prohibited
the importing of foreign grain unless the price of british grain reached harvest disaster prices.
The english reform bill of 1832 provided for
representation in parliament for the new industrial areas
Generally, the revolution of 1848 resulted in
a consolidation of moderate nationalistic middle classes
The austrian empire and austrian society were dominated by which of the following ethnic groups?
At the congress of vienna, the victorious allies
were guided by the principle of the balance of power
The allied powers at the congress of vienna were determined to
avoid the creation of hostility and resentment in France
why did Klemens von Metternich, as austrian foreign minister, have to oppose the spread of nationalism in Europe
austria was a multiethnic empire, and the spread of nationalism among its different ethnic groups threatened to dissolve the empire
Metternich believed that _________ was responsible for the warfare and bloodshed of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centures
In their war of independence against the ottoman empire, the Greeks ultimately won the support of
Great Britain, France, and Russia
which french socialist participated in the provisional government formed in paris after the february 1848 abdication of King Louis Philippe?
According to the text, one of Karl Marx's most important criticism of the French utopian socialists was that
their appeals to the wealthy to help the poor were naive
The doctrine of laissez faire holds that there should be
as little government intervention in the economy as possible
According to Henri de Saint-Simon, society's parasites included all of the following except
The veliefs and aspirations of the romantics included all of the following except
rejection of nature
The most important factor influencing the peaceful midcentury reforms in great britain was
political competition between the aristocracy and the middle class
All of the following were causative factors of the Revolution of 1848 in Paris except
the closing of the national workshops
the act that precipitated the Revolution of 1830 in paris was
Charles X's repudiation of the constitutional charter