This political group argued for protecting the traditional monarchies of Europe
Conservative
What happened to Alexander II that ended his reign as Russia's czar?
He was assassinated
Time period during the 1700s and 1800s when technological advances in agriculture and industry brought incredible economic change to Europe.
Industrial Revolution
Name one reason why Europe had trouble colonizing Africa before the 1800s.
Europeans couldn’t travel inland until steamboats were invented
Disease
Africans traded with Africans
Adding territory to your country like the United States did with Hawaii in 1898 is called
Annexing (Hawaii was Annexed)
What was the most important result of the French Revolution?
Spread of Nationalism
Type of nationalist movement were people are coming together because of cultural similarities.
Ex. Germany and Italy
Unification
What do you call risk-taking business people that see great profit abilities?
Entrepreneurs
What types of jobs did the first Europeans to travel into inland Africa have?
Missionaries or explorers
Name one of the forces that drove European Imperialism
1. Industrial Revolution
2. Europeans believe they are superior
3. Promoting Christianity
A nation that has its own government
nation-state
Forcing Russian culture on all ethnic groups in the empire to try to unify diverse people groups
Russification
The movement where wealthy landowners fenced off property instead of using open grazing techniques.
enclosure movement
Some social scientists thought evolution and natural selection show that only the fittest for survival could enjoy wealth and success. This is called
Social Darwinism
What was the name of Napoleon Bonaparte's nephew?
Louis-Napoleon
The nationalist movement in Greece wanted independence from what Empire in 1821?
He made alliances and diplomacy to gain control of all of northern Italy?
Prime minister of Piedmont-Sardinia
Count Camillo di Cavour
What European nation led the way during the Industrial Revolution?
Great Britain
1884-1885 meeting held by 14 European nations to lay down the rules to divide up Africa that was known as the
Berlin Conference
Who mastered the assembly line?
Henry Ford
What war did Russia lose as a result of its failed industries and transportation networks?
Crimean War
The final stage of German unification came after this war.
Franco-Prussian War
What invention allowed for mass production of goods?
Interchangeable parts
by Eli Whitney
Leopold II
This is the seizure of a country or territory by a stronger country
Imperialism