The Industrial Revolution
The Industrial Revolution began in this country due to its natural resources, large working class and entrepreneurial spirit.
What is England (Great Britain)?
This breakthrough technology, primarily associated with James Watt, was a critical component in the Industrial Revolution.
What is the steam engine?
This concept, based on the ideas of evolution and natural selection applied to humans and civilization, was often used by imperialists to justify colonization.
What is Social Darwinism?
This German author and philosopher founded a branch of socialism and wrote The Communist Manifesto in 1848.
Who is Karl Marx?
This country in Oceania, originally a British colony, intentionally restricted non-white immigration from its origins at Federation in 1901.
What is Australia?
In his Wealth of Nations, this man argued that division of labor was a key to increased productivity, laying the foundations of the factory system of production.
Who is Adam Smith?
This new form of overland transportation, which expanded rapidly during the Industrial Revolution, led to cheaper shipping and therefore greatly expanded markets.
What are railroads?
The partition of Africa took place at this 1884 meeting, organized by the German chancellor Otto von Bismarck.
What is the Berlin Conference?
During this phase of the French Revolution, an estimated forty thousand people were killed in the name of protecting France from enemies of the Revolution.
What is the Reign of Terror?
In the United States, increasingly violent agitation surrounding the influx of East Asian immigrants in the nineteenth century culminated in this 1882 law which denied Chinese laborers entrance to the country.
What are the Chinese Exclusion Acts?
This revolution in Japan overthrew the Tokugawa and put the country on a path of economic reform and industrialization.
What is the Meiji Restoration?
This new form of communication permitted powers to quickly correspond with colonized regions and allies.
What is the telegraph?
The construction of this passage between the Mediterranean and the Red Sea was one of the primary reasons for imperial interest in Egypt.
What is the Suez Canal?
This man led independence movements in Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, and Bolivia and helped lay the foundations for democratic ideology in much of Latin America.
What is Simon Bolivar?
Some immigrants during the 19th century made this type of arrangement, which exchanged a fixed period of labor for food, transportation, clothing, and lodging during that time period.
What is indentured servitude?
During this era new methods in the production of steel, chemicals, and electricity were discovered.
What is the "second industrial revolution"?
This compound, which proved effective in controlling attacks of malaria, allowed Europeans to travel further in to tropical regions in Africa.
What is quinine?
The Treaty of Nanjing concluded this war, which was fought between China and Britain over access to China’s markets.
What is the Opium War?
This country was founded after the only successful slave revolt in history.
What is Haiti?
This increase in food production caused by new farming techniques led to increasing populations worldwide.
What is the Agricultural Revolution?
This restructuring of the Ottoman Empire was designed to make the empire more efficient and introduced a new commercial code modeled on European rather than Islamic principles.
What are the Tanzimat Reforms?
This new form of weapon, invented during the 19th century, became an important advantage of imperial European powers in conflicts in colonized regions.
What is the machine gun or Gatling gun?
This empire, founded by Shaka through unification of smaller chiefdoms, was one of the most successful new states in Africa in the 19th century.
What is the Zulu Kingdom?
This 1898 uprising in China was triggered by a fiercely anti-Western secret society that unsuccessfully attempted to drive the British out.
What is the Boxer Rebellion?
Many Indians, including Mohandas Gandhi, spent time as temporary migrant laborers in this British territorial holding in Africa.
What is South Africa?