Post industrial britain Study guides, Revision notes & Summaries

To what extent was the 1918 Representation of the People Act the most significant reason for the decline of the Liberals in the years 1918-29? - Representation of the People Act - Party split - Scandals - Rise of Labour How accurate is it to say that in the years 1945-79, there were very limited differences in the policies of the Conservative and Labour parties? YES - NHS, welfare state - Limited strikes in 50s - Commitment to full employment NO - Economic decline (unemployment) - C...

APUSH AMSCO Chapter 16 (2023/2024) Rated A+ nation's first big business Railroads created a nationwide market for goods. This encouraged mass production, mass consumption, and economic specialization. (p. 320) Cornelius Vanderbilt He merged local railroads into the New York Central Railroad, which ran from New York City to Chicago. (p. 320) Eastern Trunk Lines In the early days of the railroads, from the 1830s to the 1860s, railroad lines in the east were different incompatible sizes which cr...

HISTORY 1020 EXAM 3 FERGUSON 2023 LATEST The Great Exhibition (1851) - CORRECT ANSWER-International World's Fair held in London It was the first of the worlds fairs Otto Van Bismarck - CORRECT ANSWER--Chancellor of Prussia, and then Chancellor of Germany -A conservative nationalist -Led Prussia to a victory against Austria and France (separate) -Responsible for creation of German Empire -Believed in Realpolitik (realistic politics) Second Industrial Revolution - CORRECT ANSWER-Too...

Industrialism - ANSWER--the industrial revolution well established in Great Britain from late 1700s to early 1800s Materialism - ANSWER--"belief that science, technology, and industry can know all truth, solve all problems, and create human happiness" -"what, ultimately, are the spiritual costs of their materialism and prosperity?" (348) Georg Hegel - ANSWER--German and philosophical Idealist (idea that reality grounded in "workways of the mind") -responsible for "the real is rati...

Sports that involved cruelty to animals became less popular in post 1850 industrial Britain. Examine two reasons for this. 1 ....................................................................................................................................................... .......................................................................................................................................................... 2 .................................................................

Amsco APUSH Chapter 24 100% Correct stock market crash October 1929 - The steep fall in the prices of stocks due to widespread financial panic. It was caused by stock brokers who called in the loans they had made to stock investors. This caused stock prices to fall, and many people lost their entire life savings as many financial institutions went bankrupt. Black Tuesday October 24th, 1929 - lots of people sold their stock + prices went way down. To stabilize stock, a group of bankers bought mi...

state autonomy is - Answer- the ability of the state to wield power independent of public and international actors Which of the following combinations of capacity and internal autonomy best fits the United States - Answer- Low autonomy, high capacity Examples of states that are not or have not been considered failed states - Answer- UK, USA, Japan, India Which of the following states most closely fits the ideal model of a nation-state? - Answer- Japan Which of the following historica...

WATCH THIS CRASH COURSE SERIES Pre-Columbian Peoples of the American Southwest -Agriculturally focused groups that developed powerful and complex societies -Became increasingly dependent on the cultivation of maize Pre-Columbian economy in Great Basin and the western Great Plains - Migratory because of limited resources Pre-Columbian economy in the Northeast and along the Atlantic Seaboard -Another Group of tribes in present-day NY formed the Iroquois League -Cultivate...

Anaconda plan Apr 19, 1861 Northern plan to blockade southern ports, seize the Mississippi, divide the confederacy and capture richmond. Ku Klux Klan 1866 -Nativist -Terrorist group -Challenged the Radical Republicans during Reconstruction. 13th amendment -Passed by Congress January 31, 1865, and ratified December 6, 1865 -Freed the slaves 14th amendment -Proposed on June 13, 1866 and ratified on July 9, 1868 -Gave African Americans citizenship 15th amendmen...

Hernan Cortes Spanish explorer who marched across mexico and conquered the aztecs - from spain Hernando de Soto -explored deep in USA -first to cross and disocer Miss. River -claimed for Spain Georgia first colonized by Spanish because they were looking for gold and land James Edward Oglethorpe The leader of English Parliament who founded the Georgia colony James Wright Georgia's third, and final, royal governor Jamestown -First permanent English sett...