Industrialization
This period marked the transition from hand production to machines and factories.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
This economic system is based on private ownership and profit.
What is capitalism?
This social class grew as factory owners gained wealth.
What is the upper middle / middle class?
This term refers to the rapid European colonization of Africa in the late 1800s.
What is the Scramble for Africa?
Industrialization increased demand for this from colonies.
What are raw materials?
This country was the first to industrialize in the 1700s
What is Great Britain?
This thinker argued that markets should operate with minimal government interference.
Who is Adam Smith?
How goods used to be produced before "machine power"
hand power
This country controlled the Congo under King Leopold II.
What is Belgium?
This system of economy allowed European nations to expand globally.
What is capitalism?
This new type of workplace brought workers together in one place to produce goods.
What is the factory?
Adam Smith's book that changed the world
What is "The Wealth of Nations"
This process saw people moving from rural areas to cities.
What is urbanization?
This meeting carved Africa among European powers without African representation.
What is the Berlin Conference?
Belief that europeans had the "responsibility" to "civilize" non europeans
White man's burden
This energy source powered early industrial machines and steam engines.
What is coal?
System capitalism replaced
what is mercantilism
This term describes the growing gap between rich and poor during industrialization.
What is economic inequality?
This was a major motivation for European imperialism in Africa.
What are resources / raw materials?
This was a major negative impact of imperialism on African individuals.
What is exploitation / enslavement
This invention revolutionized textile production by speeding up spinning.
What is the spinning jenny?
This concept explains how supply and demand regulate markets naturally.
What is the invisible hand?
This group often worked long hours in dangerous factory conditions.
Who are children / child labourers?
This ideology claimed Europeans had a duty to “civilize” other peoples.
What is the civilizing mission / White man's burden?
economic interests contributed to the scramble because nations needed these.
What are markets and raw materials?
This world map is racist
Mercator Projection