Industrialization
Urbanization & Reform
Capitalism
Imperialism
Vocabulary
100

What is industrialization and how does it change a society?

What is the shift from farming/hand production to machine-based production and factories?

100

What is a tenement?

What is a crowded, poorly built apartment for workers? 


100

Who is known as the “Father of Capitalism”?

Who is Adam Smith? 


100

What is imperialism?

What is when a country extends its power over other nations?

100

What are the 4 motives for imperialism?

What are economic, nationalism, military, and racial motives? 


200

What are the 3 factors of production?

What are land, labor, and capital?

200

What caused diseases like cholera in industrial cities?

What is dirty water/sewage and poor sanitation systems?

200

What does “laissez-faire” mean in economics?

What is “hands off” — no government interference?

200

How did industrialization lead to imperialism?

What is the need for natural resources and markets to sell goods?

200

What is “White Man’s Burden”?

What is the belief that Europeans had a duty to civilize non-Europeans?

300

What is the connection between industrialization and capitalism?

What is that industrialization increased production and created factory owners who gained wealth in a capitalist system?

300

What problem did the 1833 Factory Act try to fix?

What is child labor and lack of education?

300

According to capitalism, what motivates the butcher, brewer, and baker?

What is self-interest?

300

What weapon most helped Europeans during imperialism?

What is the Navy

300

What is Social Darwinism?

What is the belief that stronger races or nations naturally dominate weaker ones?

400

What caused people to leave rural villages and move to cities?

What is the search for factory jobs due to enclosure and industrialization?

400

What caused deadly diseases like cholera to spread in cities?

What is poor sewage systems and contaminated water?

400

How does competition help consumers in a capitalist system?

What is that it forces businesses to lower prices and improve products?

400

What conference divided Africa among European powers?

What is the Berlin Conference?

400

What’s the economic system where businesses are privately owned and profit-driven?

What is capitalism?

500

What is one disadvantage a non-European country like the Sokoto Caliphate had for industrializing?

What is political instability and reliance on slave trade?

500

What was the average workday for a 15-year-old factory worker in Manchester?

What is 14–16 hours?

500

Why would capitalism lead to the idea of communism?

What is the inequality between workers and owners (bourgeoisie)? 


500

What treatment allowed Europeans survive Malaria?

What is quinine?

500

What law says that people acting for themselves may help society?

What is the Law of Self-Interest?