Britain
Japan
Economic Systems
Andrew Carnegie
Challenge
Misc.
100

This new machine, invented by James Watt, powered many factories.

What is steam engine?

100

This emperor's government modernized Japan after 1868

Who is Emperor Meiji?

100

In this system, businesses are privately owned.

What is capitalism?

100

Where was Andrew Carnegie born?

Where is Scotland?

100

This American photographer's images of child laborers helped build support for labor reform.

Who is Lewis Hine

200

Britain had lots of this fossil fuel used to power factories.

What is coal?

200

After it modernized, Japan built many of these to connect cities and industries.

What are railroads?

200

Karl Marx is most associated with this economic system.

What is communism?

200

Carnegie made his fortune in this industry.

What is the steel industry?

200

This British author wrote Oliver Twist and other stories that sympathetically portrayed the working class of Britain and gained support for reforms.

Who is Charles Dickens?

300

THe term for when People moved from farms to cities to work in factories.

What is urbanization?

300

In the late 1800s and early 1900s, Japan  often copied technology and political organization from this continent.

What is Europe?

300

This system mixes government involvement with private business and tends to have high taxes and a strong social safety net.

What is socialism?

300

Carnegie believe that wealthy people should donate money to the common good through this process.

What is philanthropy.

300

The name for the class of factory workers described by Marx.

What is proletariat?

400

This industry was one of the first to industrialize in Britain and generated the most global trade.

What is the textile industry?

400

The term for the Japanese invasion and occupation of weaker countries in order to dominate their markets and extract their wealth and resources.

What is imperialism?

400

How old was Adam Smith when he went to college?

What is 14 years old?

400

THe elite university established by Carnegies funding.

What is Carnegie-Mellon University.

400

The name of the wealthy capitalists and upper middle class people that Marx said would be overthrown by oppressed workers.

Who are the bourgeoisie?

500

Historians often cite this agricultural change as one reason workers migrated to Britain's cities during industrialization.

What is Enclosure?

500

The American military leader whose naval presence in Tokyo Bay was meant to intimidate the Japanese and force them to open up  trade with the USA

Who is Commodore Matthew Perry?

500

Under this policy, the government interferes very little in business and does not typically impose tariffs.

What is laissez-faire?

500

Carnegie wrote an essay called "The Gospel of ____________."

What is wealth?

500

A dangerous and invisible gas that is released in coal mining.

What is methane?