Industrial Revolution Basics
This major event in farming created food surpluses and pushed workers into cities.
What is the Agricultural Revolution?
Workers formed these groups to fight for better pay and safer conditions.
What are labor unions?
European countries wanted colonies mainly for this purpose.
What are raw materials and markets?
European nations forced China to buy this addictive drug, leading to war.
What is opium?
Indian soldiers in the British army were known as this.
Who are sepoys?
This movement fenced off common land and forced small farmers to move to cities.
What is the Enclosure Movement?
This is when workers refuse to work in order to pressure their employer.
What is a strike?
This conference divided Africa among European powers without African leaders present.
What is the Berlin Conference?
This rebellion in China was driven by hatred of foreigners and missionaries.
What is the Boxer Rebellion?
One major cause of sepoy anger before the revolt.
What is cultural or religious disrespect, poor treatment, or low pay?
These two natural resources helped Britain become the first industrial nation.
What are coal and iron?
This group was hired in factories because they could be paid less and were easy to control.
Who were children?
This event describes how European nations raced to claim African land.
What is the Scramble for Africa?
This was the main result of the Opium Wars.
What is British trading rights and control of Hong Kong?
Why did the Indian Revolt of 1857 spread so quickly once it began?
Most sepoys were already angry about poor treatment and cultural disrespect
This invention allowed factories to be built anywhere, not just next to rivers.
What is the steam engine?
What made factory work especially dangerous for children in early industrial cities?
What is children worked long hours around fast-moving machines with no safety rules?
This resource made the Congo especially profitable for Belgium in the late 1800s.
What is rubber?
India was valuable to Britain for these three goods.
What are cotton, tea, and spices?
This was one major reason resistance movements often failed against European powers.
hat is European military technology (guns, steamships, artillery)?
What role did Britain’s large population of displaced rural workers play in industrialization?
What is a large labor force ready to work in new factories?
What major problems did overcrowded industrial cities face that made living conditions unhealthy?
What is polluted air, dirty water, and poor sanitation?
Two geographic challenges that slowed European entry into Africa before industrialization.
What are deserts, rivers, and dense forests.
What rumor sparked the Indian Revolt of 1857?
What is The British army had spread cow and pig fat on rifle cartridges
This political change happened in India after the 1857 revolt.
What is direct British rule (the British Raj)?