Industrial Revolution
Access to the necessary "Land, Labor, and Capital" gave this country an advantage to industrialize first.
What was Britain?
The economic philosophy of Karl Marx.
What was communism?
This nineteenth-century technological improvement helped industrialized nations expand trade and empire by allowing faster communication and coordination across long distances.
What is the telegraph?
Drug illegally traded by British merchants in China.
What was opium?
A rebellion against British rule happened in this country in 1857.
What was India?
The primary industry of the First Industrial Revolution.
What were textiles?
Era of rapid industrialization, modernization, and westernization in Japan.
What was the Meiji Era?
What is an ethnic enclave?
Meeting held in 1884-1885 by European powers to divide up Africa "peacefully."
What was the Berlin Conference?
Europeans used this ideology to justify imperial expansion by applying evolutionary theory to human societies, arguing that domination of Indigenous peoples was both natural and beneficial.
What is Social Darwinism (or scientific racism)?
This raw material, found in abundance in Great Britain, would power the steam engine.
What is coal?
Groups of united workers that would bargain for better working conditions from their employers.
What were labor unions?
This transportation development was a very significant factor for the mass immigration of the late 19th century.
What was the steamship?
Nickname for Central America nations that became subject to economic imperialism from the United Fruit Company.
What were Banana Republics?
This Indigenous spiritual process emerged in the late nineteenth century as a response to land loss, cultural suppression, and U.S. expansion, using religious belief as a form of resistance to imperial domination.
What is the Ghost Dance movement?
This social class developed in industrial societies and was characterized by consumerism, leisure activities, and housewives.
What was the middle class?
Chinese modernization attempt that was sabotaged by a conservative empress.
What was the Self-Strengthening Movement?
A "pull factor" for migration of many Italians was business opportunities in this country.
What is Argentina?
China’s restriction of foreign trade to a single port under this system contributed to rising tensions with Britain, eventually leading to military conflict and the imposition of unequal treaties that expanded foreign access to Chinese markets.
What is the Canton System?
Although it ultimately failed militarily, this East African rebellion revealed how Indigenous resistance to German imperial rule was shaped by shared grievances over forced labor, taxation, and the belief that spiritual protection could counter European weaponry.
What is the Maji Maji rebellion?
This ideas of this philosopher became the economic backbone of the Industrial Revolution.
Who was Adam Smith?
Failed attempt at policies to modernize the Ottoman Empire.
What was the Tanzimat Reforms?
Driven by industrial Europe’s demand for raw materials and new markets, this late-19th-century process partitioned most of Africa among European powers, undermined indigenous political authority, and reshaped African economies toward export-oriented monoculture.
What was the Scramble for Africa?
Uprising in China against expanding foreign influence, such as Christianity, in 1900.
What was the Boxer Rebellion?
Despite occurring in different regions, movements such as the Indian Rebellion of 1857, the Ghost Dance, and the Women’s War shared a common response to this imperial condition, which Europeans justified through ideologies like the civilizing mission and scientific racism.
What is political, economic, and cultural domination imposed by imperialism?