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- On Map 20.2: Continental Industrialization, ca. 1850, where are the most important emerging industrial areas in France located?
- In his 1835 study of the cotton industry, which conclusion did Andrew Ure come to about conditions in most factories?
- Which benefit did James Watt gain from his partnership with Matthew Boulton?
- Based on Map 20.1: The Industrial Revolution in Great Britain, ca. 1850, which components of the Industrial Revolution other than coal mining appear to be most important?
- The following is an excerpt from Peter Gaskell's The Manufacturing Population of England (Thinking Like a Historian). In it, he describes a textile worker prior to the advent of the textile factory:"Prior to the year 1760, manufactures were in a great measure confined to the demands of the home market. At this period, and down to 1800 . . . the majority of the artisans engaged in them had laboured in their own houses, and in the bosoms of their families. . . .These were, undoubtedly, the golden times of manufactures, considered in reference to the character of the labourers. By all the processes being carried on under a man's own roof, he retained his individual respectability; he was kept apart from associations that might injure his moral worth, whilst he generally earned wages which were sufficient not only to live comfortably upon, but which enabled him to rent a few acres of land. . . ."According to Gaskell, by
- On Map 20.2: Continental Industrialization, ca. 1850, where is the largest emerging industrial area located?
- How did older members of the population seek to control the sexuality of working-class youths?
- In 1850, in which occupational area did the largest number of British people work?
- Why were cottage workers, accustomed to the putting-out system, reluctant to work in the new factories even when they received good wages?
- Which key development in the eighteenth century allowed continental banks to shed their earlier conservative nature?
- Owing to the Industrial Revolution, living and working conditions for the poor
- Industrial development in continental Europe was slowed for two decades by
- The British Mines Act of 1842 and the various Factory Acts between 1802 and 1833 provide evidence that in the early and mid-nineteenth century
- During the Reconstruction Era (1865-1877), the Civil War Amendments were proposed and ratified to grant African Americansthe basic rights of citizenshipfinancial compensation for past injusticesnew education opportunitiescomplete economic and social equality
- Andrew Johnson was impeached (accused) by the Republican-controlled Hc of Representatives
- The term "scalawag" refers to white Southerners who helped to form white supremacist societief such as the Ku Klux Klan.
- The deciding factor in Grant winning the presidency in 1868 was his winning votes of white Civil War veterans.
- Enfranchised African American males.
- As a result of the Civil War,the doctrine of states' rights, the compact theory the Constitution, and secession gained greater acceptance.
- Prevents the states from creating laws that discriminate on the basis of race religion.