Industrial Revolution
This system involved processing raw materials and manufacturing goods in factories.
What is industrialization?
This was a primary economic motivation for European imperialism in the 19th century.
What is the search for new markets and raw materials?
This person is most closely associated with Communism.
Who is Karl Marx?
This shift in transportation methods during the Industrial Revolution saw the development of these two water-based systems, replacing horse-drawn carriages for long-distance travel and cargo transport.
What are canals and steamboats?
The Industrial Revolution led to this demographic shift (growth of cities) in 19th-century Britain and western Europe.
What is urbanization?
This economic policy let owners of industry set working conditions without government interference.
What is laissez-faire?
This conference showed that European nations were ready to carve up Africa for themselves.
What is the Berlin Conference of 1884-1885?
This scientist discovered radium and polonium, as well as early cancer treatments.
Who is Marie Curie?
This geographic structure allowed boats to cut thousands of miles of travel time between Asia and Europe.
What is the Suez Canal?
Communism aims to create this type of society where everyone shares the benefits of labor.
What is a classless society?
This was a major driving force behind the development of labor unions.
What are poor working conditions in factories?
This term describes the desire by European powers to divide and colonize Africa to exploit natural resources.
What is the Scramble for Africa?
This inventor produced more than 1,000 patents, including the automatic telegraph and a longer-lasting incandescent light bulb.
Who is Thomas Edison?
What advancement was most crucial for inland exploration and transportation of goods and people?
What are railways?
The Industrial Revolution improved economies in these ways: trade and commerce flourished, goods were produced faster and cheaper, and it did this for people.
What is created jobs?
The factory system made products this way during the Industrial Revolution.
What is faster, cheaper, and in greater volume/quantity?
This economic policy of imperial powers involved extracting raw materials from colonies and selling manufactured goods back to them.
What is mercantilism?
This inventor improved upon several inventions, most notably the steam engine.
Who is James Watt?
What military technology gave European powers a significant advantage over indigenous peoples during imperial expansion?
What is the machine gun?
Capitalist business owners during the Industrial Revolution often prioritized this at the expense of workers' rights and welfare.
What is gaining profit?
These large factories, often powered by water or steam, revolutionized cloth production and became symbols of industrialization in the 18th and 19th centuries.
What are textile mills?
This imperialist idea suggested Western nations had a moral obligation to civilize non-Western societies.
What is the "White Man's Burden"?
This monarch's reign saw India become the most valuable of all Britain's colonies.
Who is Queen Victoria?
What medical advancement significantly reduced European casualties in colonial territories during the 19th century?
What is quinine as malaria treatment?
Women and children in factories endured this during the Industrial Revolution.
What are very low wages, unsafe conditions, and 14-16 hour shifts?