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a British mining magnate and politician in southern Africa who served as Prime Minister of the Cape Colony from 1890 to 1896. He said, “Imperialism is a Glorious Pursuit”
Who is Cecil Rhodes
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It fundamentally transformed the nature of work and economic production.
What was the significance of the Industrial Revolution in terms of global history
100
Showed that the East India Company could no longer control India. It started because animal fat on the rifle cartridges angered the sepoys.
What is Sepoy Mutiny (Rebellion)
100
Natural resources were exploited for the benefit of European powers.
What are some of the effects of imperialism in Africa?
100
A company that dominated global trade between Europe, South Asia, and the Far East, fought numerous wars using its own army and navy
What is the East India Company
200
A policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force.
What is Gunboat Diplomacy
200
Strengthen control in India.
What was Great Britain building railroads, schools, and irrigation systems to colonize India
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The expedition laid the groundwork for a trade agreement between the United States and Japan. The use or threat of military force to advance foreign policy objectives
What is Gunboat Diplomacy
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This person who said “Imperialism is a Glorious Pursuit” and is pictured below
Who is Cecil Rhodes
200
Organization to help workers to achieve a common goal like lower wages and better working conditions.
What is a Union
300
Taxing goods from foreign countries
What is Mercantilist
300
Sufficient coal and iron ore reserves and a good transportation system
What is the reason The Industrial Revolution started in Great Britain
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Benefited most from the industrialization of the 19th century
What is the Middle Class
300
The terms spheres of influence and mandates are most closely associated with this word
What is Imperialism
300
Group of people living in a new territory with ties to a distant state
What is a Colony
400
A country or area in which another country has the power to affect developments, although it has no formal authority.
What is Spheres of Influence
400
Increased social mobility
What is the industrialization of Western Europe
400
A meeting to create a way to divide up Africa
What is the Berlin Conference
400
The Sepoy Mutiny showed the British government this
What is the East India Company could no longer control India
400
Movement of people from rural to urban areas
What is Urbanization
500
An official order or commission to do something
What are Mandates
500
Rivers were too hard to navigate, Europeans had no interest in Africa, and and disease kept many Europeans out.
What are things in Africa that prevented Europeans from conquering Africa?
500
A process in which a product is assembled as it moves past a line of workstations. Henry Ford made it better.
What is the Assembly Line
500
The major contribution Henry Ford made to the Second Industrial Revolution?
What is introduced a faster and cheaper method of production called the assembly line
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To improve something that is not right
What is Reform