Large empires must be managed
Created a bureaucracy
Conflicts with other nations over resources could lead to war
Promotes racism
Moral supremacy
Exploitation
Global dependency
What are the cons for having an empire?
100
Group of British wrongly accused for joining a union and sent to an Australia prison camp. Started reform movements.
Who are the Tolpuddle Martyrs?
100
The term for a plant disease.
What is blight?
100
People made only what they need and will use themselves, lived off the land.
What is self-sufficient?
100
People who campaigned for change in the cities.
Who were the Reformers?
200
Raw goods made by slaves would be sent from the Americas and the Caribbean to Great Britain to be manufactured, where they would be sold to Africa in exchange for slaves to be sent to the Americas and the Caribbean.
What is the Triangular Trade?
200
123 soldiers were killed in a cramped room. This led to Britain's occupation of India. The name of this event.
What is the Black Hole of Calcutta?
200
Disease that leads to loss of teeth and black legs, often found among sailors.
What is scurvy?
200
Products made in home
What is the Domestic System?
200
Areas in the city where workers lived.
What are row houses?
300
People who objected to (didn’t want) slavery.
Who are the abolitionists?
300
The name of a place outside of the country to send prisoners.
What is a penal colony?
300
Cheap corn used to feed the starving in Ireland.
What is maize?
300
People were being forced out of the countryside through a series of government laws, forced urbanization.
What are the Enclosure Acts?
300
Wooden seat over a hole.
What is a privy?
400
By the 1900s Britain would rule this much of the world.
What is 1/4?
400
A situation when some unfair practices are being carried in the society.
What is social injustice?
400
Term for people moving to another country.
What is emigration?
400
Refers to the population shift from rural to urban areas.
What is urbanization?
400
Spread through water contaminated by feces.
What is cholera?
500
True or False - In 1763 Britain had a colony in Africa.
What is false? -- N. America, India (Calcutta), Philippines
500
Land improvement schemes.
What are public works?
500
Where where poor people who had no job or home lived.
What are workhouses?
500
A series of workers and machines in a factory by which a succession of identical items is progressively made.
What is the assembly line?
500
By 1900 there this many more people in Britain than in 1750.