1750 - 1900
Name 3 inventions that transformed industry during the Industrial Revolution.
Spinning jenny, steam engine, power loom, telegraph, Bessemer steel process.
Name 3 goods commonly traded along the Silk Road.
What are silk, spices, and porcelain? (Many other answers acceptable: gold, silver, ivory, glass, tea, horses, etc.)
Name 3 motives for imperialism.
Economic exploitation, nationalism, racial superiority ("White Man’s Burden"), spreading Christianity, access to raw materials
Name 3 European maritime empires that established global trading networks in the 16th-17th centuries.
What are Portugal, Spain, and the Netherlands? (Also acceptable: England/Great Britain, France)
Name 3 cash crops that were grown for export in colonies.
Cotton (India, Egypt), rubber (Congo), sugar (Caribbean), palm oil (West Africa), opium (India for China)
Name 3 major crops or animals that were part of the Columbian Exchange.
What are potatoes, maize/corn, and horses? (Many other answers acceptable: tomatoes, wheat, coffee, sugar, tobacco, cattle, pigs, chickens, etc.)
Name 3 elements of the Triangular/Atlantic Trade system.
What are European manufactured goods to Africa, enslaved Africans to the Americas, and raw materials (sugar, cotton, tobacco) to Europe?
Name 3 examples of economic imperialism.
British in India (control of cotton/opium), British and U.S. in Latin America (banana/sugar companies), Britain forcing China to buy opium, Belgian Congo rubber trade.
Name 3 major migrant labor systems during this period. (1750 - 1900)
Indentured servitude (e.g. Indians to Caribbean), contract labor (Chinese to U.S.), convict labor (Australia), seasonal agricultural work.
Name 3 Indigenous resistance movements to imperialism.
Zulu resistance (Shaka), Sepoy Rebellion (1857), Mahdist Revolt, Samori Touré’s resistance, Maori Wars
What role did diasporic communities play in trade?
Spread religion (Islam, Hinduism), facilitated cross-cultural exchange, established merchant networks, preserved language/customs.
Name 3 significant peasant or worker uprisings that challenged state authority between 1750-1914 and their primary grievances.
What are the Taiping Rebellion (unequal land distribution/foreign influence), Sepoy Rebellion (religious/cultural insensitivity), and Mexican Revolution (land reform/political representation)? (Other acceptable examples: Boxer Rebellion, Russian Revolution of 1905
How did Russia legitimize its power?
Use of Orthodox Christianity, tsarist absolutism, gunpowder weapons, expansion to Siberia, architecture like St. Basil’s Cathedral.
What were 3 effects of European colonization on Indigenous Americans?
Demographic collapse from disease, land loss, cultural disruption, forced labor systems, forced religious conversion.
What ideologies emerged in response to industrial capitalism?
Socialism, communism, utopian socialism, labor unions, anarchism
What is a joint-stock company and name 2 examples.
Business where investors share profits/losses; British East India Company, Dutch East India Company
Name 3 ways Europeans established control overseas.
Trading-posts, colonies, military conquest, alliances with local leaders