Revolutions
Industry
Imperialism
Politics and Economics
Resources
100
DAILY DOUBLE: 200 POINTS
This late-1700s uprising in France overthrew the monarchy and promoted liberty, equality, and fraternity.
What is the French Revolution?
100
This invention allowed messages to be sent over long distances almost instantly using electrical signals, revolutionizing communication in the 19th century.
What is the telegraph?
100
This term describes the rapid competition among European nations to colonize African territory in the late 1800s.
What is the "Scramble for Africa"?
100
This French military leader rose to power after the French Revolution and eventually crowned himself emperor.
Who is Napoleon Bonaparte?
100
This is an early model of an engine that relied on this energy source, which fueled factories, trains, and ships during the Industrial Revolution.
What is Steam Power?
200
These early 19th-century movements led many colonies in Central and South America to gain independence from European rule.
What were the Latin American Revolutions?
200
This steam-powered vessel transformed transportation by allowing boats to travel upstream on rivers, boosting trade and westward expansion in the 1800s.
What is the steamboat?
200
DAILY DOUBLE: 400 POINTS
This idea claimed that Europeans had a duty to “civilize” non-European peoples, often used to justify imperialism.
What is the "White Man's Burden"?
200
This German philosopher wrote The Communist Manifesto and criticized capitalism.
Who is Karl Marx?
200
These 3 valuable resources motivated European imperialism and exploitation on the African continent.
What is rubber, gold, and diamonds?
300
This 18th-century intellectual movement emphasized reason, natural rights, and questioning traditional authority.
What is the Enlightenment?
300
This rapid-fire weapon gave industrialized nations a major military advantage during 19th-century imperialism.
What is the Gattling gun?
300
This meeting of European nations in 1844 set the rules for colonizing Africa without African representation.
What is the Berlin Conference?
300
DAILY DOUBLE: 600 POINTS
This foreign policy uses displays of naval ships or military force to intimidate other nations into cooperation.
What is gunboat diplomacy?
300
This natural resource provided the main fuel that powered Britain’s early industrial growth.
What is coal?
400
This successful slave revolt resulted in the first independent Black republic in the Americas in 1804.
What is the Haitian Revolution?
400
This invention by Eli Whitney greatly increased the speed of textile processing and unintentionally expanded slavery in the American South.
What is the Cotton Gin?
400
This process involved European powers dividing Africa into colonies with little regard for ethnic or cultural boundaries.
What is the Partition of Africa?
400
This was the Qing Dynasty Official who ordered the dumping of British-smuggled opium into the sea, sparking the Opium Wars.
Who is Lin Zexu?
400
This economic problem weakened China when large amounts of this precious metal flowed out of the country due to trade imbalances.
what is silver depletion?
500
This former enslaved person became a key leader of the Haitian Revolution.
Who is Toussaint L'ouverture?
500
This brutal transatlantic journey forcibly transported enslaved Africans to the Americas.
What is the Middle Passage?
500
This 19th-century conflict between Britain and China was fought over the British trade of a highly addictive drug.
What is the Opium War?
500
The Country of Bolivia is named after this Venezuelan Revolutionary figure who sought to unite much of Latin America under one sovereign nation.
Who is Simón Bolívar?
500
These 3 resources were central to China's trade with Europe and contributed to major economic tensions.
What is tea, silk, and opium?