Industrialization, Imperialism, & the Changing 1800s
Vocabulary
Fill in the Blank
Cause & Effect
Trivia
100
European powers competed to divide this continent into territories under foreign control.
What is Africa?
100
Land set aside by the government for a specific Indigenous group.
What is a reservation?
100
Railroad expansion sometimes received a government ______.
What is a subsidy?
100
Low wages and unsafe factory conditions encouraged workers to do this.
What is organize?
100
This prefix means something connected to China.
What is Sino?
200
This production method moved a product through workers or machines, each completing a specific task.
What is the assembly line?
200
A workplace with very low pay, long hours, and unsafe conditions.
What is a sweatshop?
200
Farmers organized through groups such as the ______.
What is the Grange?
200
Organized workers could strike and use this bargaining strategy with employers.
What is collective bargaining?
200
This term described the period of rapid industrial wealth and powerful business interests in the United States.
What is the Gilded Age?
300
Railroads, homesteaders, and settlement pushed this moving edge of American settlement westward.
What is the frontier?
300
Negotiation between workers and employers over wages and working conditions.
What is collective bargaining?
300
Investors could earn ______ from owning stock.
What are dividends?
300
Railroads and homesteading transferred land westward while restricting Indigenous land and this.
What is sovereignty?
300
This reform movement fought against alcohol use.
What is temperance?
400
The Second Industrial Revolution created powerful corporations but also dangerous workplaces and this kind of conflict.
What is labor conflict?
400
The division of communally held Indigenous land into individual parcels.
What is allotment?
400
Workers sometimes used a ______ to demand better wages or conditions.
What is a strike?
400
European imperial powers divided territories and exploited these for their own benefit.
What are land, labor, and resources?
400
These organizations provided community support, especially among some immigrant communities.
What are Mutualistas?
500
Industrialization and imperialism both concentrated this in large businesses and powerful countries.
What is economic and political power?
500
The right of foreigners to be governed by their own country’s laws while living in another country.
What is extraterritoriality?
500
The Triangle ______ fire exposed dangerous industrial working conditions.
What is Shirtwaist?
500
Imperialism frequently ignored these two things belonging to local peoples.
What are their wishes and boundaries?
500
This business arrangement combined or controlled companies in order to reduce competition.
What is a trust?