Industrial Revolution
1750-1900
1750-1900
The First Industrial Revolution begin in this island nation.
Great Britain
European nations invaded and colonized African nations in order to attain __________ to fuel European industrialization.
raw materials (rubber trees)
European nations colonized Asia in the 19th century for their ___________
established markets
Czar Alexander II ended this labor system in Russia in 1861, becoming the last nation ever to end this system.
Serfdom
The founder of communism, and the book that they wrote about this new socio-political ideology.
Karl Marx, Communist Manifesto
Patent
The event where nearly all European nations hurried to claim portions of Africa
Scramble for Africa
European nations divided Asia into these economic zones in order to control Asia indirectly.
spheres of influence
The policy that claimed American's have permission from God to spread its borders and culture from the Atlantic Coast to the Pacific Coast.
Manifest Destiny
The elimination of this was the main goal of communism.
private property
This process lowered the cost of the production of steel by taking the impurities of metal.
Bessemer Process
The leader of the 1884 Berlin Conference - a meeting where European nations redrew African borders and divided African territory
Otto von Bismarck
China lost control of this major trading city after the Opium Wars of the 19th century.
Hong Kong
South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand formed large European populations after Europeans actively migrated to these types of colonies.
Settler colonies
The name given to the Russian working class during the Communist Revolution
proletariat
Three industrial cities that greatly expanded as a result of the Industrial Revolutions.
London, Liverpool, Manchester, New York, Chicago, Berlin
The two innovations that enabled European nations to easily colonize Africa in the 19th century
bolt action rifle, machine gun, steamship
The joint stock company that indirectly ruled India in the 19th century
British East India Company
Russia was humiliated in this 1905 war by an up and coming, newly industrialized East Asian nation. Russia lost their entire naval fleet during the fighting.
Russo-Japanese War
The name given to the Russian middle class during the Russian Revolution
bourgeois
Small, dirty neighborhoods with single-room apartments that housed the working class during the Industrial Revolution
tenement housing
France, Italy, and Great Britain began taking North African territory away from this once great Islamic gunpowder empire
Ottoman Empire (Sick Man of Europe, non-industrialized)
Great Britain began to directly rule India (British Raj) after this violent event
Sepoy Mutiny
Boxer Rebellion (China) and Sepoy Mutiny (India)
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics