The Enlightenment/Age of Revolutions
The Industrial Revolution
Age of Imperialism
Potpourri
Potpourri
100
Toussaint L’Overture led a liberation movement in this country.
What is Haiti?
100
This system of economics had little or no government regulation.
What is free-market capitalism?
100
This theory claims that White colonizers have a responsibility to "civilize" non-White cultures.
What is the White Man's Burden?
100
This 17th and 18th century philosophy preached the "divine right of kings".
What is absolutism?
100
The British colonized this neighbor country and forced them into an agriculture-based economy which stunted its economic growth for hundreds of years.
What is Ireland?
200
This man, for whom a South American country is named, led a series of independence movements against the Spanish.
Who is Simon Bolivar?
200
In Great Britain, the poor working conditions in factories directly inspired this social movement.
What is the labor movement?
200
Below is a fictional depiction of this meeting.
What is the Berlin Conference?
200
This addictive drug that Britain imported to China had a harmful impact on their economy and society.
What is opium?
200
This government instituted the "Closed Country Policy".
What is the Tokugawa Shogunate?
300
The French Revolution was caused by economic instability which led to unemployment and poverty among the members of this social class.
What is the Third Estate?
300
In 19th Century Great Britain, this phenomena, the rise in the population of cities, can best be attributed to developments during the Industrial Revolution.
What is urbanization?
300
During this period in Japan, the country underwent westernization and industrialization.
What is the Meiji Restoration?
300
In Ireland, the British exported large amounts of the country's food which worsened the impacts of this deadly event?
What is the Irish Potato Famine?
300
Great Britain was rich in these natural resources which were necessary to the continued success of their industrialized economy.
What are coal and iron ore?
400
The Enlightenment, led by thinkers like John Locke and Montesquieu, inspired revolutionary leaders in France, Haiti, Latin America, and this country.
What is the United States?
400
This French social hierarchy did not allow for mobility among classes.
What is the Estate System?
400
This East African country successfully resisted Italian imperialism.
What is Ethiopia?
400
A long-term result of the Industrial Revolution in Europe was the strengthening of the economic power of this social class.
What is the nobility?
400
Belgium, led by King Leopold II, colonized the Congo for this purpose.
What is to access natural resources like rubber?
500
This piece of writing was a significant step toward the construction of a French constitution.
What is the Tennis Court Oath?
500
Communism calls for the overthrowing of the Bourgeoisie by this working class.
What is the proletariat?
500
The success of the Japanese empire in their wars against China and Russia can best be attribute to this.
What is industrialization, which led to a stronger, more technologically advanced military.
500
During the Industrial Revolution women joined the workforce, which led to the development of this movement.
What is the women's suffrage movement?
500
Jawaharlal Nehru argued that during the British Raj this greatly contributed to unemployment and poverty.
What is deindustrialization or the transformation of India into an agrarian economy?