SOCIAL + CULTURAL
Applied ideas of Darwin’s idea about natural selection and survival of the fittest to human societies.
What is Social Darwinism?
A technology that was use on water to travel
What is the steam engine?
Rights that are not dependent on the laws or customs of any particular culture or government, and so are universal, fundamental and inalienable.
What are natural rights?
A political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war.
What is communism?
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An organization of workers that tries to improve working conditions, wages, and benefits for its members.
What are labor unions?
The fight for the right of women to vote in elections.
What is women's suffrage movement?
What is palm oil?
He established Belgium as a colonial power in Africa and is best known for the widespread atrocities that were carried out under his rule, as a result of which as many as 10 million people died in the Congo Free State.
Who is King Leopold II?
Conflicts fought in China in the mid-19th century between the forces of Western countries and of the Qing dynasty.
What are the Opium Wars?
Haitian general and the most prominent leader of the Haitian Revolution.
Who is Toussaint Louverture?
Movement chiefly responsible for creating the emotional climate necessary for ending the transatlantic slave trade and chattel slavery.
What is the abolition movement?
A human development that affected the environment
What is Urbanization
A fundamental document of the French Revolution that granted civil rights to some commoners, although it excluded a significant segment of the French population.
What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen?
Worker focused on performing one task that was part of a larger series of tasks, at the end of which a product would be produced.
What is Specialization of Labor?
A joint stock company that controlled most of India during the period of imperialism.
What is the British East India Company?
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Term for the the task that white colonizers believed they "had to" impose their civilization on the black inhabitants of their colonies.
What is the White Man's Burden?
An innovation that decreased geographical distance through communication
What is Telegraph
Meeting where European powers sought to discuss the partitioning of Africa, establishing rules to amicably divide resources and land at the expense of the African people.
What is the Berlin Conference?
Legislation that took land that had formerly been owned in common by all members of a village and change it to privately owned land.
What are Enclosure Acts?
A period of state-sanctioned violence and mass executions during the French Revolution.
What is the Reign of Terror?
A movement that pushed 8 hour work days
What is labor Unions
One affect of mass migration in 1750-1900
What is Gender Roles
An implicit agreement among the members of a society to cooperate for social benefits, for example by sacrificing some individual freedom for state protection.
What is the Social Contract?
Translates to "allow to do"; an economic policy or attitude of letting the economy self-regulate without government interference.
What is Laissez-Faire?
In 1868, a Japanese state-sponsored industrialization and Westernization effort.
What is Meiji Restoration?