Machines and Stuff
These are the three factors of production required to industrialize.
What are Land, Labor, and Capital?
This term describes the rapid growth of cities as people moved from farms to factory centers?
What is urbanization?
This 'hands-off' economic policy argues that the government should not interfere with the economy.
What is "laissez-faire?"
This muckraker's book, "The Jungle", led to new laws regarding food safety and meatpacking.
Who was Upton Sinclair?
This 1884 meeting saw European powers divide Africa among themselves without any African leaders present
What was the Berlin Conference?
This 'revolution' increased the food supply and force peasants to move to cities.
What is Agricultural Revolution?
These groups were often hired in factories because they were paid lower wages than men.
Who are women and children?
This economic system advocates for public or collective ownership of resources to reduce inequality.
What is Socialism?
This 'mutiny' of Indian soldiers was squashed by Great Britain and led to a full takeover in 1857.
What was the Sepoy Mutiny?
This poem/concept suggested Europeans had a moral 'duty' to civilize non-Europeans.
What is the White Man's Burden?
The industrial revolution began here.
What is Britain?
There are many reasons workers flocked to work in factories during the industrial revolution. Name one.
What is consistent wages, "easier" work, greater opportunity...etc..?
He wrote the Communist Manifesto and predicted a class struggle where workers would overthrow owners.
Who was Karl Marx?
This country was forced into opening its ports by the American military in the 1850s.
What is Japan?
These 'wars' were fought between Britain and China after China tried to stop the import of a specific addictive drug.
What were the Opium Wars?
This industry was the first to be mechanized through water-powered factories.
What is the Textile industry?
These groups fight for better wages and safer work conditions.
What are labor unions?
What is private property?
This man began a diamond mining company in Africa that remains the largest importer of diamonds in the world. What was his name?
Who was Cecil Rhodes?
This European King was known for the brutal exploitation of the Congo for its rubber and minerals.
Who was King Leopold II of Belgium?
During the industrial revolution, energy shifted from steam to the use of what natural resource?
What is coal?
These people helped showcase the horrors of industrialization and its effects on everyday people.
What are muckrakers?
What was the name of the business that imperialized nations around the world while representing Great Britain?
What is the British East India Company?
The economic system that advocates for private ownership of companies and limited government interference.
What is Capitalism?
90% of the African continent was colonized during the Scramble for Africa. This country was not!
What is Ethiopia?