Industrial Beginnings
-Access to raw materials such as coal
-Available labor
-Capital for investment
These advantages (and more) allowed this country to be the world's first to industrialize.
What is Great Britain?
The reforms of the Japanese government in reaction to western industrialization.
What was the Meiji Restoration?
The dominant economic philosophy of the Industrial era.
What is capitalism? OR What is laissez-faire economics?
The distorted beliefs of Charles Darwin, used to justify European colonization of certain lands.
What was Social Darwinism?
Oil palms, cotton, and tea would be example of these grown in some colonies.
What are cash crops?
This western hemisphere nation industrialized in the 19th century.
What was the United States?
Organizations formed to bargain for increased workers rights that use "strikes" for leverage with employers.
What are labor unions?
A reaction to the changes of the Industrial era and the economic philosophy associated with Karl Marx.
What is Marxism OR Communism?
This monarch was owner of a private colony in Central Africa that he exploited for rubber.
Who was King Leopold II?
In immigration: poverty, famine, instability, and war would be these.
What are push factors?
This industry was the first to be impacted by industrial innovation and factories.
What was the textile industry?
The reforms of the Ottoman government in reaction to western industrialization.
What were the Tanzimat Reforms?
A company that controls the entirety of an industry and has eliminated all competition.
What is a monopoly?
The British fought these groups for control of the Cape Colony
Who were the Boers and Zulu?
In immigration: jobs and economic opportunity would be these
What are pull factors?
The mass movement of people from rural areas to urban centers.
What is urbanization?
The term for the increased advertising directed at middle class families who now had disposable income to spend on nonessential goods.
What is consumerism?
Name for investors in businesses and innovations, associated heavily with the start of the Industrial Revolution.
What are entrepreneurs?
The "White Man's Burden" was also known as this.
What is a civilizing mission?
A neighborhood of people from the same foreign country
What is an ethnic enclave?
This revolutionary change in England led to a loss of rural farming work and a move toward urban living.
What was the Agricultural Revolution?
The term historians have given to the changing role of middle class women during the Industrial era.
What was the cult of domesticity?
A company that does business across national borders, such as DeBeers Diamond Company or the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC).
What are transnational companies?
The term for the special powers that Great Britain, France, Germany, Russia, and Japan had over large parts of China.
What were spheres of influence?
"Banana Republics" are an example of this specific type of imperialism
What is economic imperialism?