The Engine of Change (Industrial & Agricultural Revolutions)
This period saw a shift from making things by hand at home to making them with machines in large buildings.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
In this system, private individuals own businesses and compete to make a profit.
What is Capitalism?
The "Control Tool" used in Puerto Rico to ban the _________language in schools and force U.S. culture on students.
What is The Spanish?
This 1884 meeting saw European leaders divide Africa on a map without inviting a single African leader.
What is the Berlin Conference?
This is a deep feeling of pride in your country and the belief that your "team" should be independent.
What is Nationalism?
This invention by James Watt used coal to power machines, meaning factories no longer had to be built next to rivers.
What is the Steam Engine.
This "hands-off" idea says the government should stay out of business and let owners do what they want.
What is Laissez-faire?
The U.S. took a 10-mile wide strip of land to build a shortcut for ships. What is it called?
What is the Panama Canal?
This Ethiopian "Strategist" traded gold and coffee to buy modern rifles and cannons to protect his country.
Who is Menelik II?
Britain started a war with China so they could continue selling this dangerous drug to the Chinese people.
What is Opium?
This event involved rich landowners fencing off "common" land, forcing small farmers to move to the city for work.
What is the Enclosure Movement.
This thinker co-wrote The Communist Manifesto because he was angry about child labor and poor working conditions.
Who is Karl Marx?
This law (amendment) was forced into Cuba’s constitution, allowing the U.S. military to intervene whenever they wanted.
What is the Platt Amendment?
In 1896, the Ethiopian army crushed the Italian army at this famous battle, becoming a symbol of Black independence.
What is the Battle of Adwa?
These were areas in China where foreign nations (like Britain and France) controlled all the trade and laws.
What are Spheres of Influence?
These are the "Big Three" things you need for a factory: Land (Resources), Labor (Workers), and this (Money)
What is Capital?
This system wants to close the gap between rich and poor by sharing wealth more equally.
What is Socialism?
By 1930, U.S. banks owned 60% of these farms in Puerto Rico, showing total economic control
What are Sugar farms?
King Leopold II of Belgium treated people in this region with extreme brutality to get rubber and gold.
What is the Congo?
This Asian nation decided to modernize and industrialize very fast so they wouldn't be taken over like China was.
What is Japan?
This term describes the mass movement of people from small farms to crowded, smoky cities.
What is Urbanization?
Marx used this word to describe the "working class" people who were being exploited by factory owners.
Who are the Proletariat?
This country gained freedom from Spain but became so poor and in debt that foreigners ended up owning 25% of its land.
What is Mexico?
In 1935, Italy invaded Ethiopia again, but this time they used this illegal "modern war" technology.
What is Poison Gas (or Airplanes)?
This 1911 event finally ended the 2,000-year-old system of Emperors in China to try a "New Model" of government.
What is the 1911 Revolution?