North America
The idea that government should stay out of the economy; was adopted in the United States in the late 19th century
Laissez-faire economics
Who desired to unite South America into a Gran Colombia?
Simon Bolivar
What raw material was used during the Industrial Revolution that grew as a tree?
Rubber
Which country led the Industrial Revolution?
Quick maturing, drought-resistant crop originally fro Vietnam
Champa Rice
What term was used to describe the freeing of slaves, and what year was the policy adopted in the United States?
Emancipation (1863)
What resource was abundant in South America that many colonizing nations used to buy luxury goods from China?
Silver
What conference split Africa into different colonies?
Berlin Conference
Medicine that was effective at countering malaria providing expansion into Africa
Quinine
What nation industrialized rapidly and what was the process called?
Japan, Meiji Restoration
The first organized attempt to advocate for women's rights in United States history
Seneca Falls Convention (1848)
What was the forced labor system on non-Christians called?
Encomienda System
Why were elephants hunted?
Ivory
A strong sense of pride in one's country
Nationalism
Movement and political party demanding greater Indian participation in government, later declaring independence.
Indian National Congress
Who was the person that wrote the Wealth of Nations, and what economic policy did he introduce?
Adam Smith, capitalism
What cash crop were the Caribbean Islands known for?
Sugarcane
What European monarch colonized the Congo and ruled with harsh laws?
King Leopold II
What British entrepreneur and politician was actively involved in colonizing South to Central Africa?
Cecil Rhodes
The struggles between Britain and China fought over an addictive drug
Opium Wars
How did cities form from industrialization, and how did it affect people's daily lives?
Skyscrapers were constructed to contain more people in a smaller area, cheap tenement housing held immigrants in the city creating a melting pot of different cultures, long hours were implied in dangerous factories allowing child labor, unsanitary food processing plants and cities led to increased sickness
Why does Brazil speak Portuguese to this day?
They were ruled under the Portuguese Empire.
The Boer Wars
Who wrote the "white man's burden" that justified imperialism?
Rudyard Kipling
Former name of Sri Lanka
Ceylon