Study Guide:
Industrial Revolution, Colonialism, and Review
Test date: Friday, January 23. 40 multiple choice / matching questions that cover these topics:
origins of democracy, the Industrial Revolution, colonialism. About half of the test will review
topics we studied earlier in the semester (see study guides for previous tests: Origins of
Democracy Test Study Guide and Democracy Test Study Guide [11/25])
Review Activities
Categorize the following thinkers of the Industrial Revolution era. Below each name, write the
main idea for that person (Robert Owen, David Ricardo, Karl Marx, Charles Lyell, Jeremy
Bentham, Thomas Malthus, John Stuart Mill, Herbert Spencer, Charles Darwin, Adam Smith)
Scientific
Thinkers
Utopians
1.
1.
2.
2.
Economists –
Gov’t should
take no role in
the economy
1.
Economists –
Gov’t should
take some role
in the economy
1.
2.
2.
3.
4.
Explain how each of the following works demonstrates at least one idea of Romanticism (see
class notes from 1/12/09):
1. William Wordsworth’s “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”
2. Either Beethovern’s Symphony #8 or Tchaikovsky’s Symphony #6
3. Friedrich’s Wandere Above the Sea of Fog, Constable’s Study of Clouds, Delacroix’s Sultan
of Morocco or Monet’s Impression, Sunrise
Look up the word feminist in a dictionary. Based upon what you saw in class of Henrik Ibsen’s A
Doll’s House, would you say this is a feminist play? Why or why not?
Review your notes of what the terms liberal and conservative mean (11/24/08). Write which
view best describes your views and explain why.
Read study guide pages 38-54. Pay special attention to bold-faced items and to the big ideas
expressed on each page.
Origins of Democracy
Absolutism
Aristocracy
Bourgeois
Conservative
Constitutional Monarchy
Democracy
Dictatorship
Divine Right
Enlightenment
Glorious Revolution
Laissez-faire
Liberal
Magna Carta
Mercantilism
Natural Law
Republic
Scientific Revolution
Social Contract
Suffrage
Industrial Revolution
Agricultural Revolution
Capital
Capitalism
Commercial Revolution
Terms You Should Know . . .
Communism
Cottage Industry (“putting-out system”)
Cult of domesticity
Enclosure Movement
Entrepreneurs
Factory System
Feminism
Impressionism
Marxism
Mass Production
Proletariat
Realism
Romanticism
Socialism
Technological Revolution
Urbanization
Utopian
Colonialism/Imperialism
Extraterritoriality
Imperialism
Indigenous
Protectorate
Social Darwinism
Sphere of Influence
“White Man's Burden”