Countries around the World
The Industrial Revolution started in this country.
What is Britain?
This country had the largest empire by the early 1900s.
What is England?
The Rwandan Genocide lasted this long.
What is 100 days?
A person believes that their race is superior to all others.
What is ethnocentrism?
A legacy of slavery in the USA today.
What is racism?
This country lost in WWI and as a consequence, lost its control over Rwanda.
What is Germany?
Which European superpower controlled Rwanda after Germany lost it after WWI?
Who is Belgium?
This is the number of estimated people who were killed.
What is 800 000 - 1 million?
The policy of forcing a colony to trade only with the home country.
What is mercantilism?
The slave population in the South in the 1860s made up this proportion of the total population.
Who is 1/3? (4 million slaves)
This country is known for its use of residential schools and officially apologized for them in 2008.
What is Canada?
Cotton, tobacco, and cocoa are known as this.
What are cash crops?
The Rwandan president's plane was shot down in this month and year which led to the Rwandan genocide.
What is April 1994?
The intentional killing of an ethnic group.
What is genocide?
A name for a large farm in the South that grew cash crops like cotton.
What is a plantation?
This territory is being disputed as belonging to Pakistan or India but would like to be its own country.
What is Kashmir?
The policy of strictly controlling trade which benefited the home country.
What is mercantilism?
This group was the minority ethnic group in Rwanda who made up 90% of those killed during the Rwandan genocide.
Who are the Tutsis?
A person who believed in getting rid of slavery.
What is an abolitionist?
The passage from Africa to North America was known as what?
What is the Middle Passage?
This country had a large number of slaves brought in to work in its sugar industry. The living and working conditions were worse than even that of the Southern USA.
What is Brazil?
The belief that Europeans are better than others.
What is eurocentrism?
This was the spark that officially started the Rwandan Genocide
What is the shooting down of Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana's plane?
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?
This type of slavery meant that you were essentially considered property and as such, could be bought and sold.
What is chattel slavery?