Industrial Revolution
The Industrial Revolution started in this country.
What is Britain?
The worldwide redistribution of plants, animals, and diseases resulting from the initial contact between Europeans and Indigenous peoples of the Americas.
What is the Grand Exchange?
The ruler of the Congo Free State from 1885-1908.
Who was King Leopold II?
British control over India from 1858-1947
What was the British Raj?
"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction"
What is the 13th Amendment?
Considered one of the most important innovations from the Industrial Revolution?
What is the Steam Engine?
Loss of culture and language, Depopulation, Migration, Displacement
Who is Mobutu?
In the case of India, the loss of the cotton industry as a result of British control
What is deindustrialization?
The sea voyage of slave ships from Africa to the New World.
What was the Middle Passage?
Common in the Industrial Revolution, this term describes having youth working in factories with no minimum wage, no job security, poor health and safety regulations.
What is child labor?
A person believes that their race is superior to all others.
What is ethnocentrism?
Rubber was extracted from trees in The Congo under King Leopold II's rule and the value increased because of this event in Europe
What is the Industrial Revolution?
The division of India, after Independence
What is the Partition?
A name for a large farm in the South that grew cash crops like cotton.
What is a plantation?
A multi-spindle frame, and was one of the key developments during the Industrial Revolution.
What is the spinning jenny?
The policy of strictly controlling trade which benefited the home country.
What is mercantilism?
"The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking away from those who have a different complexion or a slightly flatter nose than ourselves, is not a pretty thing…"
What is Heart of Darkness?
Created by Queen Elizabeth I in 1600 to encourage trade with India.
What is the British East India Company?
The transportation by European slave traders of enslaved African people, mainly to the Americas to work on plantations.
What is the Transatlantic Slave Trade?
What are the Factory Acts?
The belief that Europeans are better than others.
What is eurocentrism?
Treatment of a person, group or concept as insignificant or peripheral.
What is marginalization?
Lawyer, Politician, Social Activist, Writer and leader of the Nationalist Movement in India
Who is Mahatma Ghandi?
This type of slavery meant that you were essentially considered property and as such, could be bought and sold.
What is chattel slavery?