Industrial Revolution
The Industrial Revolution was the change from producing goods by hand to producing goods with machines in this place.
Factories
These three nationalists (Garibaldi, Mazzini, Cavour) successfully combined its separate states to form this one united country in 1870.
Italy
Europeans wanted these - the main reason for European nations to imperialize/colonize lands in Africa and Asia.
Raw materials or natural resources
The economic system that was used during the Industrial Revolution (and that is still used in most of the world today).
Laissez Faire or Capitalism
a machine that performs mechanical work using water vapor as its working fluid.
Steam engine
The country where the Industrial Revolution started
England
The largest of 20 independent German states
Prussia
The racist poem that encouraged Europeans to "civilize" the people that they took over by teaching them European customs and religious beliefs (like Christianity).
"White Man's Burden"
In this economic system, society (usually in the form of the government) owns and controls some means of production such as factories and utilities.
Socialism
A machine that uses a tool that holds the thread of yarn had to get passed through and between threads using a paddle to weave fabric more quickly
Flying shuttle
Geography
From 1845-1850, about 1 million people died of starvation because of this.
The Potato Famine in Ireland
The idea that it was natural for strong countries (like European nations" to take over weaker countries (like nations in Africa and Asia).
Social Darwinism
These two men believed that laissez faire was bad. They argued that it allowed greedy factory owners to exploit poor factory workers. They wrote a book called the "Communist Manifesto."
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
transmits and receives messages over long distances
telegraph
When people move in large numbers to cities and cities grow, this is called ....
Urbanization
The man who united Germany
Otto von Bismarck
Over 90% of Africa was taken over by European countries in a race to take over the continent. This was called ---
"The Scramble for Africa"
Marx and Engels called the greedy factory owners this word.
a machine that separates the soft white fibrous substance from their seeds
Cotton gin
An organization of workers that fought to improve working conditions and pay
Labor unions
Otto von Bismarck's policy - how he united Germany using this idea of military power and industrial strength
"Blood and Iron"
The East India Company and other British merchants began to import this into China illegally, demanding payment in silver. This was then used to buy tea and other goods.
Opium
revolution
A stronger and safer powerful explosive that was used to shatter rocks
Dynamite
These two regions in Europe were both large empires that ruled over many diverse ethnic groups. They were eventually broken up due to nationalist movements.
Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire
Who wrote "White Man's Burden"?
Rudyard Kipling in 1899
This is the period in Japanese history when Japan began a rapid program of modernization and westernization.
Meiji Restoration
After being defeated in the Opium Wars, China was carved up into these areas where trade was controlled by different European nations.
Spheres of influence
Since Japan had very few natural resources of its own, Japan took over this nation and part of another nation to gain these resources.
China & Korea
Rebellion in which India tried (but failed) to gain independence from Great Britain
Sepoy Rebellion
Rebellion in which China tried (but failed) to gain independence from the various European nations that controlled them.
Boxer Rebellion