Industrial Revolution
This country is considered the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution.
What is Great Britain (or England)?
This act of 1833 prohibited employment of children younger than 9.
What is the Factory Act of 1833?
These wars were fought because Britain wanted to continue selling narcotics in China.
What are the Opium Wars?
This nickname described the weakened Ottoman Empire in the 1800s.
What is the Sick Man of Europe?
This American naval officer forced Japan to open its ports in 1853.
Who is Matthew Perry?
This new power source fueled factories, railroads, and steam engines during the Industrial Revolution.
What is coal (or steam power)?
This economic system is based on private property and free markets.
What is capitalism?
This treaty forced China to open ports and give Britain control of Hong Kong.
What is the Treaty of Nanjing?
These reforms attempted to modernize and westernize the Ottoman Empire from 1839–1879.
What are the Tanzimat Reforms?
This treaty officially opened Japanese ports to American ships.
What is the Treaty of Kanagawa?
This system replaced domestic production by using specialization of labor and mass production.
What is the Factory System?
This ideology supported small government, private property, and free markets.
What is classical liberalism?
This rebellion was led by Hong Xiuquan, who claimed to be the younger brother of Jesus.
What is the Taiping Rebellion?
This group pushed for secular modernization and later helped dissolve the Ottoman Empire.
Who are the Young Turks?
This political event restored imperial rule and modernized Japan beginning in 1868.
What is the Meiji Restoration?
This invention by James Watt greatly improved industrial productivity in 1769.
What is the steam engine?
This thinker wrote The Wealth of Nations and supported laissez-faire capitalism.
Who is Adam Smith?
This Chinese anti-foreign uprising targeted missionaries and foreigners from 1898–1900.
What is the Boxer Rebellion?
This reform movement promoted legal equality and secularization in the Ottoman Empire.
What are the Young Turk Reforms?
These powerful industrial business groups helped drive Japan’s industrialization.
What are zaibatsu?
These two new social classes emerged as a result of industrialization.
What are the middle class and working class?
This German thinker argued that class struggle drives history and wrote The Communist Manifesto.
Who is Karl Marx?
This phrase describes China’s weakening under foreign domination during the 1800s.
What is the Century of Humiliation?
This empire’s weakening helped inspire nationalism in Serbia, Greece, and Egypt.
What is the Ottoman Empire?
This policy required all Japanese men to serve three years in the military.
What is conscription?