Industrial Revolution
A new invention called the steam engine, relied on this source of fuel.
What is coal?
What is Industrialization?
The act passed by Parliament that sold common land to private owners.
What is the Enclosure Act?
This new method of transportation allowed for easier access to raw materials in the mainland of many colonies.
What is the Steam Boat?
The Industrial Revolution saw the transformation of society from a(n) ______ society to an urban society
What is Agrarian?
The term used to describe the rapid attempt by Europeans to grab land from Africa in the late 1800's
What is the Scramble for Africa?
Term used to describe the economic policy of individually owning capital (or money / property)
What is Capitalism?
This new method for transporting goods was created in both Panama and Egypt (Suez)
What is a canal?
The term to describe the mass migration of people to cities as a result of new factories being built.
What is Urbanization?
The sun never set on the _______ Empire
What is British?
This vocabulary term is used to describe the ability to replace individual pieces of a larger machine without having to replace the entire machine itself.
What is interchangeable parts?
The name of Native Indian soldiers that were enlisted to fight for the British by the East India Company
Who are the Sepoy?
The availability of mass produced goods, and a fixed working wage upon which people could purchase these goods, led to the creation of this new class in society.
What is the middle class?
The response by many colonies to their European colonizers
What is Nationalism / Revolution?
This movement came about as a result of women taking on an increased role in society in the work force and thereby demanding the same rights / representation as the rest of the work force.
What is the Women's Suffrage movement?
This vocabulary term describes the area of a globe that certain colonizing countries are able to control.
What is Sphere of Influence?
The term used to describe an organization of workers who band together to protest their working conditions.
What is strike?
This term used to describe the idea that races / cultures that are more advanced and more industrialized, are therefore superior to other more primitive cultures.
What is Social Darwinism?
The vast economic gap between the working class and the business elites led to the creation of this economic policy
Fill in the blank "Whatever happens we have got the _______ and they have not"
What is the Maxim Gun?