Industrial Revolution
Britain had an early advantage over other countries because of easy access to
coal
In 1839, Commissioner Lin wrote a letter to Queen Victoria asking how she could permit a poisonous drug to harm the Chinese people. This drug was ...
opium
When the British first came to India in the 1600s, it was ruled by a powerful Muslim empire known as the ... dynasty.
Mughal
In Algeria, this local religious scholar took up arms against the French and resisted capture for fifteen years.
Abd al-Qadir
In ... Tenskwatawa had a dream that told him how his tribe could recover the lands they had lost to white settlers.
1805
One of the most important inventions, which led to a revolution in transportation and the production of cotton cloth, was ...
the steam engine
After losing the First Opium War in 1842, the Chinese were forced to give the British the island of ...
Hong Kong
Britain's first conquests occurred in 1757, in the region known as ...
Bengal
Belgian King Leopold exploited this colony ruthlessly from the 1880s until 1908.
Congo
He and his brother Tecumseh together united other tribes in Ohio and neighboring states to create a ...
pan-Indian confederacy
In English factories, if workers were even a little late to work, they would lose pay, or would be ...
quartered.
This Chinese peasant led a major rebellion against the Qing empire during the 1850s...
Hong Xiuquan
After taking over control here, the East India Company acquired the right to ...
collect land taxes.
This king in East Africa was able to successfully defeat Italy in a battle in 1896.
King Menelik of Ethiopia
In a powerful video, we saw what happened to the ... tribe in the 1800s and 1900s when their lands were stolen from them.
Lakota
Collectively, the owners of production and wealthy industrialists are known as the ...
bourgeoisie
After opening its ports to trade with the West, in 1868 Japan reformed its government during the ....
Meiji Restoration
After seeing the Indian cotton industry destroyed and being reduced to poverty, some soldiers rebelled when they were asked to use the new ...
Enfield rifle.
Edmund Morel wrote that Africans had endured so much harm from European guns and the slave trade, but now they could not fight back against ... which destroyed the soul.
capitalist exploitation
In our reading on the Cherokee, we learned about a man who invented a syllabary. His name was ...
Sequoyah
This man wrote that although each worker is only thinking of his own self-interest and not the good of society as a whole, there is an "invisible hand" that leads society to benefit.
Adam Smith
The Japanese government encouraged economic activity at home through giant family-run firms called ...
zaibatsu
This Englishman said that Indian civilization was backward looking, oppressive, and worthless.
James Mill
The event that triggered the start of the European "scramble for Africa" in the 1880s was ...
the British invasion and capture of Egypt
Senator Albert Beveridge made a speech in Congress in 1900 to persuade President ... to colonize the Philippines.
McKinley