AP European History Flashcards: Social Effects Of Industrialization

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Flashcard 1: What term refers to the industrial wage-earning working class dependent on selling labor?

Answer: Proletariat. Marx's term for workers who owned nothing but their labor power.

Flashcard 2: What term describes employment where women are paid less and concentrated in limited jobs?

Answer: Occupational segregation by gender. Women clustered in low-wage textile, domestic, and clerical work.

Flashcard 3: What term describes worker organizations that provided mutual aid such as sick benefits?

Answer: Friendly societies (mutual aid societies). Early worker groups pooled resources for unemployment and illness.

Flashcard 4: What was the most typical effect of industrialization on women's work in many working-class families?

Answer: Continued wage labor, often in textiles or domestic service. Poor women still worked despite domestic ideals.

Flashcard 5: What was the main social class that expanded due to industrialization and professional occupations?

Answer: The middle class (bourgeoisie). New professions and business opportunities created wealth.

Flashcard 6: What was the primary goal of early labor unions in industrial Europe?

Answer: Higher wages and better working conditions. Workers organized to counter exploitation and poverty.

Flashcard 7: What class expanded most due to industrialization and white-collar work in the nineteenth century?

Answer: Middle class (bourgeoisie). Factory owners, professionals, and merchants formed a new economic elite.

Flashcard 8: What ideology argued that society is divided into classes whose conflict drives historical change?

Answer: Marxism (class conflict theory). Marx saw class struggle as history's driving force.

Flashcard 9: Which group most benefited from new consumer goods and a culture of respectability in industrial Europe?

Answer: The middle class. Rising incomes enabled consumption and social status.

Flashcard 10: What social change is indicated when marriage occurs later and family size decreases in industrial regions?

Answer: The demographic transition toward smaller families. Economic pressures led to family planning and delayed marriage.

Flashcard 11: What is the name for the political movement demanding expanded male suffrage and reforms in Britain?

Answer: Chartism. British workers demanded voting rights through the People's Charter.

Flashcard 12: What term describes the ideal that women should focus on home and morality while men work in public life?

Answer: Separate spheres ideology. Victorian ideal confined women to domestic roles.

Flashcard 13: What is the term for the rapid growth of cities caused largely by industrial job opportunities?

Answer: Urbanization. Industrial jobs concentrated in cities, drawing rural workers.

Flashcard 14: Which reform ideology favored gradual change through laws such as factory regulation and welfare?

Answer: Social democracy (reform socialism). Evolutionary socialism sought reform within existing systems.

Flashcard 15: What public health reform most directly reduced deaths from cholera in industrial cities?

Answer: Modern sewer and clean water systems. Engineering projects eliminated contaminated water sources of disease.

Flashcard 16: What ideology argued that history is driven by class conflict between bourgeoisie and proletariat?

Answer: Marxism. Marx theorized capitalism would collapse from worker-owner tensions.

Flashcard 17: What term describes the widespread employment of children in factories and mines for low wages?

Answer: Child labor. Factories exploited children's small size and cheap labor.

Flashcard 18: Identify the key social effect if a city adds sewers, clean water, and waste removal in the 1800s.

Answer: Improved public health and lower urban mortality. Sanitation infrastructure reduced disease outbreaks.

Flashcard 19: What nineteenth-century reform targeted the use of young children in factories and mines?

Answer: Child labor laws (Factory Acts). Britain led reforms limiting hours and ages for factory workers.

Flashcard 20: What public health problem was strongly associated with early industrial cities due to crowding and poor sanitation?

Answer: Epidemic disease (especially cholera). Poor sanitation and crowding spread waterborne diseases.

Flashcard 21: What term describes the movement of people from rural areas to cities for factory employment?

Answer: Rural-to-urban migration. People left farms seeking industrial wages.

Flashcard 22: What policy approach describes government action to regulate factories, sanitation, and housing to address social ills?

Answer: Social reform through state intervention. Governments regulated to improve living conditions.

Flashcard 23: What term describes the separation of workplace from household typical of industrial society?

Answer: Separation of home and work. Factory work moved production outside the household economy.

Flashcard 24: Which social effect best matches this description: crowded housing, disease, and pollution in cities?

Answer: Rapid urban growth outpacing infrastructure. Cities expanded faster than sewers, housing, and public services.

Flashcard 25: What was the most common housing pattern for early industrial workers in rapidly growing cities?

Answer: Overcrowded tenements and slums. Rapid urban growth outpaced housing, creating dense poverty.

Flashcard 26: What term describes the overcrowded, poorly built urban housing of many industrial workers?

Answer: Tenements. Cheap, cramped apartments housed multiple families in unsanitary conditions.

Flashcard 27: What is the term for long-term improvements in public health, nutrition, and life expectancy?

Answer: Rising standard of living. Industrial wealth eventually improved diet, medicine, and housing.

Flashcard 28: What concept describes the strict scheduling and time-discipline imposed by factory work?

Answer: Factory discipline (time discipline). Clock-based schedules replaced task-based work rhythms.

Flashcard 29: What concept describes the move from home-based work to centralized factory production?

Answer: Factory system. Centralized production replaced cottage industries and artisan workshops.

Flashcard 30: What is the name for city districts marked by concentrated poverty and poor sanitation?

Answer: Urban slums. Industrial cities created impoverished neighborhoods lacking basic services.

Flashcard 31: Identify the term for government policies that addressed poverty via pensions, insurance, and aid.

Answer: Welfare state (social legislation). Government programs provided safety nets for industrial society.

Flashcard 32: What concept describes the separation of workplace (factory) from home life in industrial society?

Answer: Separation of home and work (domestic-industrial divide). Factories created distinct work locations away from living spaces.

Flashcard 33: What term refers to wage-earning industrial workers who sold their labor for pay?

Answer: The proletariat (working class). Industrial workers who owned no means of production.

Flashcard 34: What concept describes the middle-class ideal of women focused on home and morality?

Answer: Cult of domesticity. Victorian ideal confined middle-class women to domestic sphere.

Flashcard 35: What tactic involves workers refusing to work to pressure employers for concessions?

Answer: Strike. Work stoppages forced employers to negotiate or lose production.

Flashcard 36: What organization formed to bargain collectively for wages, hours, and working conditions?

Answer: Labor unions (trade unions). Workers organized to negotiate better conditions collectively.

Flashcard 37: What reform movement sought to reduce alcohol consumption as a response to urban poverty and disorder?

Answer: The temperance movement. Reformers blamed alcohol for social problems.

Flashcard 38: What term describes the shift toward smaller families and deliberate limitation of births in industrial societies?

Answer: Declining birth rate (demographic transition). Urban families limited births for economic reasons.

Flashcard 39: What is the demographic term for rapid movement of people from countryside to cities?

Answer: Urbanization. Mass migration to cities for factory jobs transformed demographics.

Flashcard 40: What term refers to workers deliberately breaking machines to protest industrial change?

Answer: Luddism. Named after Ned Ludd, workers feared job displacement.