Atlantic Revolutions
Absolute Monarchy
What was one ruler having supreme authority over everything; no laws restrict their power?
Industrialization
What is the development of industries in a country or region on a wide scale driven by technology?
Tokugawa Shogunate
Who is the emperor who was overthrown during the Meiji Restoration?
Industrialism is the root of Imperialism...
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What is true
By 1913 Africa was under 90% control of by European countries accept for two independent states...
what are Liberia and Ethiopia?
The one invention that is linked to the spark of revolutions.
What was the printing press?
Adults were given higher wages, safer work environment.
What are Child Labor Laws?
The New Emperor's belief for the future of Japan
What was, the only way to withstand the imperialistic west is to embrace the western ways and become an imperialistic power themselves?
Monroe Doctrine
what is the US says no nation outside of America could stake a claim in any American territories?
Of the 9 countries imperializing Africa, two European countries held the most land.
Who are Britian and France?
This revolution led to the sale of the Louisiana Purchase
What was the Haitian Revolution?
Voted on and installed leading to improved health for all urban inhabitants...
What are sanitation systems?
What was a war where Japan defeated China gaining control over southern Manchuria, Korea, and Taiwan.
Imperialism is...
what was to extend a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military
One tool gave Europeans an overwhelming advantage in the conquest of Africa...
What is the Maxim gun?
Causes of the American Revolution
What were Taxes and Lawes imposed by the British,
The Boston Massacre and growing unity among the colonies
Scientific and technological advances improved the standard of living for the upper and middle classes in industrialized societies...
what are street lights and urban transportation?
Treaty of Portsmouth 1905
What was a treaty giving Japan Chinese port city trading rights, control of Manchuria, Korea became a protectorate, and the annexation of Sakhalin.
1898-1917: US acquired a lot of territory through imperialism., they were...
Puerto Rico, Guam, Hawaii, the Philippines, Samoa, Wake Island, the Panama Canal, and the Virgin Islands.
3 main reasons for European Imperialism
Raw materials / New markets
Political Instability
Nationalism
The great leader of the Latin American Revolutions was called El Liberator
Who was Simon Bolivar?
Workers response to the conditions of the Industrial Revolution
What were Strikes, Unions and Collective Bargaining?
Japan's future
Japan continued to build up their influence in Asia through Imperialism and dominating their Asian neighbors which led them up to the conflict in WWII.
pushed Spain out of America permanently and grew America’s influence in former Spanish Colonies and the Caribbean.
What was the Spanish-American War?
The Berlin Conference
14 European nations met in 1884-1885 to lay down rules for the division of Africa. They agreed that any European country could claim land in Africa by notifying other nations of its claims and showing it could control the area.