Industrialization Basics
This fuel powered most early steam engines during the Industrial Revolution.
What is Coal?
This invention most directly sped up long-distance communication in the 19th century.
What is the telegraph?
This term describes a foreign power claiming exclusive trading rights in a region without formal political takeover.
What is a sphere of influence?
A common advantage of capitalism is this driving force of economic development.
What is innovation and competition?
A common consequence of rapid urbanization during industrialization was this urban condition.
What is overcrowding and unsanitary conditions?
This transportation development most directly linked interior resources to coastal ports in colonies and empires.
This industry was an early leader in mechanized mass production.
What are textiles?
In the late 19th century, industrial powers sought colonies primarily to obtain these.
What are raw materials and new markets?
This motivating factor drove both industrialization and imperial expansion.
What is the need for raw materials to feed factories?
This statement about women during industrialization is most accurate.
What is that many women entered factories, often earning lower wages than men?
This country industrialized rapidly after unification in 1871, developing large steel and chemical industries.
What is Germany?
Japan's approach to industrialization during the Meiji Restoration was characterized by this strategy.
What is government-led adaptation of Western technology?
This form of imperial control keeps local rulers but uses them to enforce colonial interests.
What is a protectorate (indirect rule)?
Economic imperialism often relied on these methods.
What are companies, loans, investments, and concessions?
This cultural/ideological imperialism example involved spreading language and beliefs.
What are missionary schools promoting the colonizer's language and religion?
This labor response emerged because of poor working conditions in factories.
What is labor unions?
This economic system is characterized by private ownership of factories and competition driving innovation.
What is capitalism?
These 19th-century events weakened Qing authority and opened China to foreign control.
What are the Opium Wars and unequal treaties?
This social group grew significantly because of industrial entrepreneurs and factory management.
What is the middle class?
These rebellions are examples of violent uprisings against foreign influence or colonial policies.
What are the Boxer Rebellion and the Maji Maji Rebellion?
A major environmental consequence of 19th-century industrialization was widespread pollution from this source
What is burning fossil fuels?
This long-term global legacy of the Industrial Revolution created the foundation for modern world economic interdependence.
What is global economic interconnectedness?
This phrase best describes "everyday resistance" used by colonized peoples.
What is noncooperation, work slowdowns, and cultural persistence?
This reform tactic reduced child labor in many industrializing countries.
What are mandatory schooling laws and minimum age limits?
This global event created a foundation for modern world economic interdependence.
What is the Industrial Revolution?