HY 102 exam 2 Beeler question with
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Eduard Bernstein - -Disagreed with Marx on the inevitability of working class revolution; he instead
advocated gradual, or "evolutionary," socialism, through peaceful political means
-The romantic movement of the early nineteenth century can be viewed as - -A reaction against the
enlightenment preoccupation with reason and human control of nature
-Anglican clergyman and pioneer demographer; his Essay on the Principles of the Population (1798)
"argued the population, when unchecked, increases in a geometric ration while the food supply
correspondingly only increases in an arithmetic ration. The result will be severe overpopulation and
ultimately starvation if this growth is not held in check" - -Thomas Malthus
-In Britain during the second half of the nineteenth century - -The overall standard of living rose by
more than 50%
-Camillo di Cavour - -Sought to create a united, constitutional Italian state under the leadership of the
kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia
-Maximilian Robespierre - -Dominated the committee of public safety during the reign of terror, when
some 40,000 "enemies of the revolution" were executed
-The first parliamentary reform act of 1832 in Great Britain enfranchised - -The solid middle class
-Johann Gottfried Herder - -Believed that all nationalities or ethnic groups possessed a unique national
spirit or volkgeist
-The mechanization associated with the industrial revolution of the late eighteenth century occurred
first in this industry: - -Cotton textiles
-The chief impetus for the "new imperialism" of the late nineteenth century and early twentieth
centuries was - -Growing economic rivalry between the industrialized countries
-Klemens von Metternich - -Championed conservatism and monarchy and dominated the congress of
Vienna
-The sociological research conducted in London during the late nineteenth century century by Charles
booth revealed that - -Close to a third of the families in the cities they studied lived at or below the
poverty line
-According the Charles Darwin's theory of evolution - -Survival in the natural world depends on species
ability to adapt to changing climatic and environmental conditions
-Louis Pasteur - -Developed the germ theory of contagion
answers
Eduard Bernstein - -Disagreed with Marx on the inevitability of working class revolution; he instead
advocated gradual, or "evolutionary," socialism, through peaceful political means
-The romantic movement of the early nineteenth century can be viewed as - -A reaction against the
enlightenment preoccupation with reason and human control of nature
-Anglican clergyman and pioneer demographer; his Essay on the Principles of the Population (1798)
"argued the population, when unchecked, increases in a geometric ration while the food supply
correspondingly only increases in an arithmetic ration. The result will be severe overpopulation and
ultimately starvation if this growth is not held in check" - -Thomas Malthus
-In Britain during the second half of the nineteenth century - -The overall standard of living rose by
more than 50%
-Camillo di Cavour - -Sought to create a united, constitutional Italian state under the leadership of the
kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia
-Maximilian Robespierre - -Dominated the committee of public safety during the reign of terror, when
some 40,000 "enemies of the revolution" were executed
-The first parliamentary reform act of 1832 in Great Britain enfranchised - -The solid middle class
-Johann Gottfried Herder - -Believed that all nationalities or ethnic groups possessed a unique national
spirit or volkgeist
-The mechanization associated with the industrial revolution of the late eighteenth century occurred
first in this industry: - -Cotton textiles
-The chief impetus for the "new imperialism" of the late nineteenth century and early twentieth
centuries was - -Growing economic rivalry between the industrialized countries
-Klemens von Metternich - -Championed conservatism and monarchy and dominated the congress of
Vienna
-The sociological research conducted in London during the late nineteenth century century by Charles
booth revealed that - -Close to a third of the families in the cities they studied lived at or below the
poverty line
-According the Charles Darwin's theory of evolution - -Survival in the natural world depends on species
ability to adapt to changing climatic and environmental conditions
-Louis Pasteur - -Developed the germ theory of contagion
