Incredible Inventions and Tantalizing Technologies
This fuel source is used for way more than torches: it is the #1 source of power for factories, trains, and basically everything during the Industrial Revolution
What is coal?
This country is where the Industrial Revolution began
What is Great Britain?
(England/United Kingdom/U.K. are also acceptable)
British factories relied on this type of young labor to produce goods
What is child labor?
This crop's mass failure in Ireland led to many deaths and many people leaving the country
What is the potato?
This country was isolated for over 200 years until the United States arrived...
What is Japan?
Cities were connected by land and could transport goods and people because of this new invention
What are railroads?
This is a system of government in which all factories, farms, and other valuable things are owned and controlled by the government
What is communism?
British workers of all ages worked in this type of factory producing clothes
What are textile factories?
This disease from the Americas spread and infected Irish potatoes
What is blight?
This member of the United States Navy forced the Japanese to open their country to western merchants in 1853
Who was Commodore Matthew Perry?
This artificial river was used to connect two bodies of water or sometimes was used for sewage
What are canals?
This is a economic system in which land, factories, and other resources are owned by individuals instead of the government. In this system, the prices of things we buy are decided by the people who sell them and not by the government. It was pioneered by Adam Smith.
What is capitalism?
This is the movement of people from the countryside to the cities: the end result? Cities grow.
What is urbanization?
This word refers to a great lack of food over a wide area
What is famine?
The Japanese went under this process of adopting Western style technology, weapons, and even clothes
What is modernization?
(Westernization is also acceptable)
What is the steam engine?
This German political philosopher and economist founded modern socialism and wrote The Communist Manifesto with his friend Friedrich Engels
Who is Karl Marx?
What is pollution?
Most Irish people that did not die from the famine fled Ireland to move to this country...
What is the United States?
(America, USA, U.S. all acceptable answers)
This person was the actual leader of Japan before the Meiji Restoration
Who was the shogun?
This type of machine was used to make the clothes making process much faster.
What is the flying shuttle?
This revolution was not violent: it was caused by new farming technologies and techniques as well as the loss of "common land"
What was the Agricultural Revolution?
During the 1800s, reform laws passed in Great Britain, led to...
What are child labor laws?
(Also acceptable answers: minimum wage, trade unions)
This idea, related to capitalism and Adam Smith, was the belief of British government officials who felt that the problems of Ireland would just fix themselves.
What is laissez-faire?
The Meiji Restoration resulted in...
The political, economic, social, and military change of Japan to become more like Great Britain and the rest of the West