Imperialism
This was a major motivation for imperialism, as nations sought raw materials and new markets.
What is economic gain?
This continent was rapidly divided among European powers during the late 1800s.
What is Africa?
Workers formed these organizations to improve wages and working conditions.
What are labor unions?
This empire launched the Tanzimat Reforms.
What is the Ottoman Empire?
This ideology advocates government control of industry and wealth redistribution to reduce inequality.
What is Socialism?
This European meeting divided Africa among European powers.
What is the Berlin Conference?
The United States annexed this Pacific island kingdom in 1898.
What is Hawaii?
Workers often used this tactic by refusing to work until demands were met.
What is a strike?
The Tanzimat Reforms sought to modernize this institution.
What is the military?
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels wrote this influential 1848 document.
What is The Communist Manifesto?
This king privately controlled the Congo before it became a Belgian colony in 1908.
Who is King Leopold II?
Japan gained this island after defeating China in the First Sino-Japanese War.
What is Taiwan?
This organization, founded in 1864, spread labor movements across Europe.
What is the International Workingmen's Association?
This British law improved sanitation and housing conditions in cities.
What is the Public Health Act of 1875?
This ideology called for a worker-led revolution and the abolition of private property.
What is Communism?
This type of colony involved Europeans settling permanently and displacing indigenous peoples.
What is a settler colony?
This event exposed the weakness of China's modernization efforts.
What is the First Sino-Japanese War?
These British laws restricted child labor and improved factory conditions.
What are the Factory Acts?
Conservative elites often opposed these efforts in China and the Ottoman Empire.
What are modernization reforms?
This reform movement (1839–1876) attempted to modernize the Ottoman Empire's military, government, and education system.
What are the Tanzimat Reforms?
This rebellion in German East Africa resisted colonial rule from 1905–1907.
What is the Maji Maji Rebellion?
This movement attempted to modernize China's military and industry.
What is the Self-Strengthening Movement?
Industrial workers organized because of these conditions.
What are low wages, long hours, and unsafe working conditions?
This Chinese modernization effort (1861–1895) attempted to strengthen the Qing Dynasty by adopting Western military technology and industrial practices.
What is the Self-Strengthening Movement?
This European empire originally controlled the Congo Free State before it was transferred to direct government rule in 1908.
What is Belgium?