Industrial Revolution: Inventions & Technology
This invention generated mechanical energy through boiling water.
What is the Steam Engine?
The elimination of the requirement for manual labor brought on by the Industrial Revolution allowed these two demographic groups to enter the workforce.
Who are women and children?
The name of the era in the American South after the Civil War
What is Reconstruction?
This waterway in Africa proved to be one of the most important acquisitions for any European country during the 19th century.
What is the Suez Canal?
Australia originally served this function for the British Empire.
What is a Penal Colony?
This machine transformed the economy of the American South by improving the profitability of a certain crop.
What is the Cotton Gin?
The creation of the cotton gin increased the use of this form of labor in the American South.
What is Slave Labor?
Put these American wars in chronological order:
War of 1812; Civil War; French and Indian War; Mexican American War; Revolutionary WarFrench and Indian War; Revolutionary War; War of 1812; Mexican-American War; Civil War
Many atrocities were committed in the Congo region under the rule of this Belgian king.
Who is Leopold II?
The British East India Company became less profitable as supply of this crop increased dramatically.
What is Cotton?
This invention automated the process of weaving fabric.
What is the Power Loom?
This political system was developed in response to the abuses and inequalities apparent in early capitalism.
What is Communism?
The event prompted the secession of the first southern states from the Union.
What is the Election of Abraham Lincoln?
The refinement of this medication helped Europeans treat Malaria.
What is quinine?
Britain turned to this product to reverse their steady trade deficit with China.
What is Opium?
This industry became more productive during the (first) Industrial Revolution. Its product allowed for new construction, sturdier housing, and more reliable railways.
What is the Iron Industry?
These groups worked to establish better work conditions and higher wages for their members.
What are Labor Unions?
The main event that prompted the Mexican-American War.
What was the admission of Texas into the United States?
This meeting established the "rules of the game" for European powers to colonize Africa.
What is the Berlin Conference?
This Empire expanded mainly over land, into Central Asia.
What is the Russian Empire?
This was the main fuel source of the (first) Industrial Revolution
What is Coal?
What is Urbanization?
The Kansas-Nebraska Act replaced this agreement.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
Name one of the countries in Africa that was not controlled by a European power at the end of the 'Scramble for Africa."
Liberia
Ethiopia / Abyssinia
Aside from Australia, name one island in Oceania and the colonial power that controlled in during the 19th Century
US: Hawaii,
Britain: Fiji, New Zealand, The Solomon Islands
Netherlands: Borneo, New Guinea, Sumatra, Java
United States: Hawaii, Samoa, The Philippines