Oh, Industry!
This technology fueled industrial transformations in almost every economic sector, including shipping, textile production, consumer goods production, etc.
*Daily Double: Who is famous for improving the steam engine?*
What is the steam engine?
DD: James Watt
In this event in 1868, a group of young samurai eliminated the shogun and claimed they were restoring power to the young emperor.
What is the Meiji Restoration?
Many ideologies that justified imperialism fueled an intense period during which most African countries were imperialized by European powers. That event was given this catchy nickname.
*DD: What country in East Africa remained independent?*
What is the Scramble for Africa?
*DD: What is Ethiopia?*
In this event, Hindu and Muslim soldiers fought together against the British imperializers.
What is the Indian Rebellion of 1857-1858? (sometimes called the "sepoy rebellion")
When he became First Consul of the Republic of France it became clear that despite the many changes brought by the French Revolution, in essence the French people had traded one form of autocratic government for another.
Who is Napoleon Bonaparte?
The site of the initial technological breakthroughs of the Industrial Revolution in the 18th century, where multiple innovations increased production, resulting in an enormous increase in output.
What is the British textile industry?
The time period during which Japan experienced internal peace and maintained strict rules against encroachment by foreigners.
*Daily Double: Which one European country was an acceptable trading partner?*
What is Tokugawa Japan (or The Tokugawa Shogunate, or The Edo Period)?
*The Dutch/Netherlands*
This ideology claims that:
1) nations are groups of people bound by common culture, language, history, etc.
2) each nation should have their own country
What is nationalism?
The Belgian king who took personal ownership of Congo and was responsible for horrific atrocities.
Who is Leopold II?
Mary Wollenstonecraft was expressing this new Enlightenment-influenced ideology when she wrote in In The Vindication of the Rights of Women, “Who made man the exclusive judge, if women partake with him of the gift of reason?”
What is feminism?
The ideology exemplified by this quote: Isabella Beeton wrote, “Of all those acquirements, which more particularly belong to the feminine character, there are none which take a higher rank, in our estimation, than such as enter into a knowledge of household duties; for on these are perpetually depend the happiness, comfort, and well-being of a family.”
What is the ideology of domesticity?
This leader of the Taiping Rebellion advocated for a classless society and a new vision of Chinese spirituality which combined ancient (pre-Confucian) traditions with his own interpretation of Christianity (he said was Jesus's brother).
Who is Hong Xiuquan?
This ideology holds that it is immoral for one person to hold another in any form of enslavement.
*Daily Double: What was the last major country to outlaw slavery, and when did it outlaw the practice?*
What is Abolitionism?
*DD: Brazil, 1888*
A pattern through which industrial development to produce cash crops in Latin America was financially supported by foreign governments and businesses. Then, the profits from the cash crops went to the foreign investors.
What is dependent development?
According to the leaders of this Atlantic Revolution, liberty was about property rights, and meant freedom from unfair taxation, including refusing to pay newly levied tariffs and taxes.
What is the American Revolution?
Though they still owned the land, technically, this group saw their economic dominance threatened by the rise of wealthy industrialists: a factory owner could now be as wealthy as a duke.
Who are aristocrats?
This conflict was caused by Chinese objections to British smuggling and sales of a powerful drug within China, British concerns about their trade imbalance with China, and featured new industrial naval technologies on the British side.
What is the First Opium War?
This ideology justified imperialism and held that human differences in appearance were evidence for a hierarchy of races, with some groups considered more advanced humans, and some less advanced. Proponents of these views took copious measurements using scientific instruments to justify their ideas.
What is scientific racism?
This form of imperialism was exemplified by new schools, which inculcated the children of elite families into the Western elite through education, styles of dress and decorum, other cultural practices.
What is cultural imperialism?
This revolution was the only successful large-scale slave revolt in the Atlantic World. It terrified slave-holders, who adopted even more stringent controls over the lives of enslaved people, fearing that they might be victims of another revolution if they did not “Remember [this place].”
*DD: Name an influential military leader of this revolution, who was himself enslaved early in his life.*
What is Haiti?
*DD: Toussaint Louverture*
According to Marx and Engels, the _____________ (social class) exploit the _____________ (social class) so extremely that this exploitation will inevitably lead to the fall of the industrialist classes and triumph of the working classes
Who are the bourgeoisie and the proletariat?
An anti-foreign movement (1898-1901) led by Chinese militia organizations, in which large numbers of European and Chinese Christians were killed. It resulted in military intervention by the Western powers and the imposition of a huge payment as punishment.
What is the Boxer Rebellion?
This ideology justified imperialism by claiming that imperial powers were doing a good thing by imperializing others. Proponents believed that European cultures were superior to other cultures and that by spreading Christianity, European cultural practices, and Europeans ideals they were saving others from backwards ways of life.
What is Civilizing Mission?
A form of imperialism in which rich countries gain advantage over poorer ones without the need to exercise direct political control or use military force. Instead, an imperializer might shape markets to benefit their own country at the expense of the poorer one.
What is economic imperialism?
Though Latin America was fully independent by the end of 1820s, it was not united. Instead, Latin America was very splintered, and difficult to unify, which frustrated this man for whom a major South American country is named.
Who is Simón Bolívar?