Major source of labor during the Industrial Revolution?
What are child laborers?
100
Key player during the period of imperialism who conquered territories throughout the world-like India and China.
What is Great Britain's role in imperialism? (England, United Kingdom are all Great Britain)
100
The canal that was important in controlling the flow of goods to places like the Middle East, which the British came to control?
What is the Suez Canal?
100
Restrictions on Indian-owned industries.
What is a negative impact of colonialism?
100
Hawaii. (Who took over Hawaii)
What island state did the United States annex?
200
The cotton gin.
Who is Eli Whitney?
200
A country or region governed internally by a foreign power.
What is a colony?
200
Event that allowed for imperialism, especially Africa, to fully begin.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
200
Indian soldiers that fought under British control.
What are the sepoys?
200
The Chinese destroyed a great amount of opium.
What is the cause of the Opium War?
300
Industrial Revolution's factor in the origins of imperialism.
What is large influx of new economic sectors and encouraged Europeans to seek out new sources of profit?
300
The process in which a minority group that adopts the customs of a prevailing culture.
What is assimilation?
300
The event where the European nations met to divide Africa, where no African rulers were invited.
What is the Berlin Conference?
300
Cause of the Sepoy Mutiny.
What are the rumors that the British had greased the ammunition with beef and pork fat?
300
Rebellion that was started by the resentment Chinese citizens had towards the special treatment foreigners were receiving and the influence foreigners had on the government?
What is the Boxer Rebellion?
400
Natural resource that fueled the Industrial Revolution.
What is coal?
400
The idea that those who were fittest for survival and success were superior to others in the World.
What is Social Darwinism?
400
Dutch settlers who had colonized Capetown, South Africa prior to the British taking control in the 1800's. Translates as "farmers."
What are Boers?
400
The Muslim and Hindu sepoys could not unite against the British, causing weak leadership.
Why was the Sepoy Mutiny was a failure?
400
China was forced to open up to trading with the British and the west through this treaty.
What is the Treaty of Nanjing?
500
Invention that drilled a seed into the ground and then covered it with dirt.
What is the seed drill?
500
A country with its own internal government but under the control of an outside power.
What is a protectorate?
500
Russia's military weakness revealed.
What is the discovery about the Russians during the Crimean War?
500
India was the most valuable of all Britain's colonies.
Why was India referred to as the "jewel in the crown?"
500
China was self-sufficient, agricultural based, and exported more than they imported.
What are characteristics of the Chinese economy prior to the Opium War?