The Industrial Revolution
New Technology
Imperialism
Revolution and Reform
Global Migration
100

Two reasons the Industrial Revolution began in Great Britain.

Coal/Iron (raw materials), location (easy access to trade), agricultural growth, urbanization, rivers/canals, foreign resources (empire), capital (money)

100

This breakthrough technology, primarily associated with James Watt, was a critical component in the Industrial Revolution.

What is the steam engine?

100
This concept, based on the ideas of evolution and natural selection applied to humans and civilization, was often used by imperialists to justify colonization.
What is Social Darwinism?
100
This country was founded after the only successful slave revolt in history.
What is Haiti?
100

This country in Oceania, originally a British colony, intentionally restricted non-white immigration from its origins at Federation in 1901.**

What is Australia?

200

In his Wealth of Nations, this man argued that division of labor was a key to increased productivity, laying the foundations of the factory system of production.

Who is Adam Smith?

200

This new form of overland transportation, which expanded rapidly during the Industrial Revolution, led to cheaper shipping and therefore greatly expanded markets.

What are railroads?

200
The partition of Africa took place at this 1884 meeting, organized by the German chancellor Otto von Bismarck.
What is the Berlin Conference?
200

This German author and philosopher founded a branch of socialism and wrote The Communist Manifesto in 1848.*

Who is Karl Marx?

200

In the United States, increasingly violent agitation surrounding the influx of East Asian immigrants in the nineteenth century culminated in this 1882 law which denied Chinese laborers entrance to the country.**

What are the Chinese Exclusion Acts?

300

This revolution in Japan overthrew the Tokugawa and put the country on a path of economic reform and industrialization.

What is the Meiji Restoration?

300

This new form of communication permitted powers to quickly correspond with colonized regions and allies.

What is the telegraph?

300
These were the only two countries that were able to stay independent in Africa during the age of imperialism.
Liberia and Ethiopia
300
This man led independence movements in Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, and Bolivia and helped lay the foundations for democratic ideology in much of Latin America.
What is Simon Bolivar?
300

Some immigrants during the 19th century made this type of arrangement, which exchanged a fixed period of labor for food, transportation, clothing, and lodging during that time period.

What is indentured servitude?

400

Identify two new canals that helped dramatically increase trade by shorting travel times.

Panama, Suez, or Erie Canals

400

This new form of weapon, invented during the 19th century, became an crucial advantage of imperial European powers in conflicts in colonized regions.

What is the machine gun?

400
The Treaty of Nanjing concluded this war, which was fought between China and Britain over access to China’s markets.
What is the Opium War?
400
During this phase of the French Revolution, an estimated forty thousand people were killed in the name of protecting France from enemies of the Revolution.
What is the Reign of Terror?
400

This increase in food production caused by new farming techniques led to increasing populations worldwide.*

What is the 2nd Agricultural Revolution?

500

This restructuring of the Ottoman Empire was designed to make the empire more efficient and introduced a new commercial code modeled on European rather than Islamic principles.

What are the Tanzimat Reforms?

Bonus Question (Daily Double)

What was the name of the Chinese reform movement that failed due to the opposition of Confucian bureaucrats and large land owners?

500

Identify one new machine that dramatically improved the production of textiles

Spinning Jenny, Flying Shuttle, Power Loom, Cotton Gin

500
The main drivers for imperialism during this age, both of which were directly connected to Industrialization
M&Ms--Materials and Markets (aka raw materials and markets in which to sell new products)
500

This 1898 uprising in China was triggered by a fiercely anti-Western secret society that unsuccessfully attempted to drive the British out.*

What is the Boxer Rebellion?

500

Many Indians, including Mohandas Gandhi, spent time as temporary migrant laborers in this British territorial holding in Africa.*

What is South Africa?

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