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GRA 12-1
1. When and where did the Industrial Revolution begin?
2. What five factors contributed to the start of the Industrial Revolution?
3. What four inventions advanced the production of cotton cloth?
4. What effect did the steam engine have on the coal and iron industry?
5. What was the Rocket?
6. Why did factories begin to require workers to work in shifts?
7. What three countries were the first to be industrialized in continental Europe?
8. What change took place in the American labor force between 1800 and 1860?
9. What two classes of people emerged in the European society of the Industrial
Revolution?
Name
Date
Class
Guided Reading Activity 12-2
Reaction and Revolution
DIRECTIONS: Fill in the blanks below as you read Section 2.
After the defeat of (1)
, European rulers moved to restore
the old order with (2)
(4)
, (3)
,
, and (5)
in power. This goal was
addressed at the Congress of (6)
in September 1814.
The arrangements made at this Congress were a victory for rulers who wanted
to contain the forces of (7)
unleashed by the French
Revolution. Their political philosophy, based on tradition and social stability, is
known as (8)
. The great powers assumed the right of interven-
tion whereby they could send armies into countries where there were revolutions in
order to restore legitimate (9)
to their thrones.
Liberals believed in the protection of (10)
liberties, or the
basic rights of all people. Many favored government ruled by a
(11)
which regulates the monarchy. They thought that the right
to vote and hold office should be open only to men of (12)
Liberals had no desire for the (13)
(14)
.
classes to share in power.
in the nineteenth century arose out of people’s
awareness of being part of a community with common institutions. After the French
Revolution, nationalists came to believe that each (15)
have its own government. (16)
should
feared the implications of such
thinking and tried to repress nationalism.
Nationalistic/liberal thinking led to (17)
of Europe. The (18)
in the countries
of France was finally overthrown in 1848.
Cries for change led many German rulers to promise (19)
,a
free press, and jury trials. In Vienna, Austria, revolutionary forces took control of the
(20)
and demanded a liberal constitution.
GRA 12-3
1. The Crimean War was the result of a struggle between _____ and the _____.
2. Russia was interested in expanding its power into the _____.
3. Fearful of Russian power, _____ and _____ declared war on Russia.
4. The Crimean War destroyed the _____ of Europe.
5. On March 17, 1861, King Victor _____ II proclaimed a new kingdom of Italy.
6. Under Bismarck, Prussia organized the Northern German states into a _____.
7. In 1870, _____ armies defeated an entire French army and the French ruler.
8. The southern German states agreed to enter the _____ German Confederation.
9. By giving the _____ class a voice in rule, Britain avoided revolution in 1848.
10. The French were defeated in the _____ and the Second Napoleonic Empire fell.
11. The _____ of 1867 created dual monarchies in Austria and Hungary.
12. The _____ of Alexander II in 1881 returned Russia to the old methods of
repression.
13. The end of the American Civil War meant that the United States would be “one
nation, _____.”
14. In 1840, the British Parliament formally joined Upper and Lower Canada into the
United _____ of Canada.
Name
Date
Class
Guided Reading Activity 12-4
Culture: Romanticism and Realism
DIRECTIONS: Fill in the blanks below as you read Section 4.
1. The
emphasized feelings, emotion, and imagination as sources of
knowing.
2. Romantics also valued
, the belief in the uniqueness of each
person.
3. Many romantics had a passionate interest in the
4. The exotic and
.
also attracted many romantics.
5. Chilling examples of romantic literature are Mary Shelley’s
in
Britain and Edgar Allen Poe’s short stories of horror in the United States.
6.
and other romantic poets believed science had reduced nature to
a cold object of study.
7. Romantic artists believed art was a reflection of the artist’s inner
8. To many romantics,
9.
.
was the most romantic of the arts.
said, “I must write, for what weighs on my heart, I must express!”
10. In biology, Frenchman Louis Pasteur proposed the
theory of
disease.
11. In Great Britain, Michael Faraday put together a primitive generator that laid the foundation for the use of
current.
12. Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, a theory
that each kind of plant and animal had
over a long period of time.
13. Darwin’s ideas raised a storm of controversy, with many people condemning Darwin
for denying God’s role in
14. Literary realists wanted to write about
rather than romantic heroes in exotic settings.
.
characters from actual life