Vocabulary
These people rejected the Industrial Revolution and often sabotaged factories in Britain by destroying machines
Luddites
This fuel source powered the steam engines that drove the early Industrial Revolution
Coal
This country controlled India as part of its vast colonial empire and referred to it as the “Jewel in the Crown
Britain
The invention of this engine is often cited as the true start of the industrial revolution, and led to revolutionary changes in transportation and mining.
Steam Engine
This 1830s invention by Samuel Morse revolutionized long-distance communication.
Telegraph
an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit.
Capitalism
This invention revolutionized travel and transportation of goods and led to the universal time system
The train
This 1884–85 meeting of European powers divided Africa with little regard for native populations
Berlin Conference
This weapon gave Europeans an advantage when fighting Africans and Asians in the late 1800s
Machine Gun
This 19th-century economic theory by Karl Marx criticized capitalism and promoted a classless society.
Communism
Completed in 1869, this waterway connects the Mediterranean with the Red Sea
Suez Canal
These organizations formed by workers aimed to improve wages and working conditions during the Industrial Era.
Labor Unions
This Asian country responded to Western imperialism by rapidly industrializing and becoming an imperial power itself.
Japan
This was the first spinning machine too large to fit in homes and led to the creation of factories
Spinning Jenny
This Latin American leader helped free Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru from Spanish rule.
Simon Bolivar
a political and moral philosophy based on the rights of the individual, liberty, consent of the governed, political equality, the right to private property, and equality before the law.
Liberalism
These overcrowded, unsanitary apartment buildings housed many working-class families in growing industrial cities.
Tenements
This war between Britain and China in the mid-1800s resulted in unequal treaties and the ceding of Hong Kong to the British.
Opium War
This medicine, often mixed with gin and tonic water, allowed Europeans to fight off maleria and aided in the colonization of Africa
Quinine
This 19th-century unification movement brought together various German states under Prussian leadership and was led by this German Ruler
Otto Von Bismarck
This American Naval Officer led an expedition to Japan and ended its centuries-long isolationist policies by forcing them to open their ports to trade.
Matthew Perry
This book, written by Karl Marx and Frederic Engels, was a response to capitalism and the terrible conditions of the working class and predicted a class war between workers and capitalists
Communist Manifesto
This was the only African Empire to defeat Europeans and maintain its independence throughout the 1800s
Ethiopia
Invented in 1895 by Italian Guglielmo Marconi, this technology wouldn't become widely used until the 1920s
Radio
This war, fought from 1853 to 1856, involved Russia, the Ottoman Empire, Britain, and France and highlighted the decline of the Ottoman Empire.
Crimean War