Agricultural Revolution
Two crops introduced from the “New World” that supported population growth
What are potatoes and corn?
One innovation in textile production
What is the spinning jenny, water frame, or power loom?
The means of production
What are factories?
Only Japanese port that allowed trade with Europeans under the Tokugawa
What is Nagasaki?
Formed to address working conditions
What are labor unions?
Jethro Tull’s innovation in farming that increased efficiency and productivity of planting
What is the seed press?
Fuel source required for 19th century industrialization
What is coal?
The means of distribution
What are railroads?
Japan’s leaders feared invasion after the arrival of his warships in Tokyo Bay
Who was Commodore Perry?
The act of negotiating for higher pay and better working conditions by labor unions
What is collective bargaining?
New farming method that increased food production in which a fallow field was unnecessary
What is 4-crop rotation?
Economic system; the means of production and distribution are privately owned
What is capitalism?
Replaced steam as dominant source of industrial power
What is electricity?
Japan’s lack of this was a major disadvantage in their effort to industrialize
What is coal or raw materials?
Resulted in mass migration of people from Ireland to other countries
What is the Irish Potato Famine?
Invented interchangeable parts and the cotton gin
Who is Eli Whitney?
Economic theory that demands the government keep “hands off”
Qu'est-ce que vous laissez faire?
Two innovations in communication
What are the telephone and radio signals
Japan’s rapid industrialization and modernization to protect itself
What is “defensive modernization”?
The two groups engaged in class struggle according to Marx
Who are the bourgeoisie and the proletariat?
Land reform that facilitated large-scale farming and prompted urbanization due to legal protection of private property
What is the enclosure movement?
Author of The Wealth of Nations?
Who is Adam Smith?
Engine that powered automobiles and airplanes
What is the gasoline-powered internal combustion engine?
One of the earliest targets of Japanese colonization
What is Korea?
Pamphlet that summarized the ideas of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
What is The Communist Manifesto?