Industrial Inventions
This Invention allowed for factories to stay open 24/7
Light Bulb
What natural geographic feature allowed for the easy transportation of goods within England?
Natural Waterways
Drake's Well
The process of industrialization in Japan was known as the...
Meiji Restoration
How does Great Britain flip the trade balance between them and China?
Illegally Smuggling Opium into Chinese Port Cities
This invention allowed factories to move away from rivers
Steam Engine
What Late 17th century political development made it harder for poor farmers in England to own land, forcing them to urbanize?
The Enclosure Movement (1688)
Steel was a stronger and more malleable alloy
Name TWO primary reasons for the failure of Egypt to Industrialize
Lack of Coal
European Tariffs
Lack of Successor after Ali
What did European countries do to limit the amount of manufactured exports out of Egypt?
Tariffs on Egyptian goods
This invention was refered to as "Floating Volcanoes" by the Japanese during American contact with the Tokugawa Shogunate in the early 1850s.
The Steamship
The First Industry to mechanize and industrialize was the...
Textile Industry
Mr. Zep'f Ancestors primarily immigrated to the United States from ireland and Germany. Which of the following decades would have been the MOST LIKELY decade of this immigration?
1790, 1830, 1860, 1880
1830
How were the Chinese Self-Strengthening Movement and Ottoman Tanzimat Reforms SIMILAR?
They both tried to westernize, but were hindered by traditionalists.
What was the Young Turks' argument regarding the Tanzimat reforms?
The Young Turks believed the Tanzimat reforms were superficial and didn't do enough to westernize
This invention allowed Russia to connect St. Petersburg in the West to the Russian Pacific Coast in the East.
The Trans-Siberian Railroad
The British Imposed "Chintz Ban" banned the sale of What in the British Empire?
Indian Textiles
Sparked by Private Companies and Human Capital
Fueled by Local AND Foreign markets
Didn't Evolve Out of a Feudal System
How does the Auspicious Event of the Ottoman Empire signify a shift towards westernization?
Ends the use of janissaries and rise of western military
Explain how the British expansion of the Indian Railroad system led to further de-industrialization of India
The railroad expedited the process of shipping raw materials to coastal cities to ship to England
This invention allowed for near instant communication between the United States and Great Britain by 1858.
The Telegraph
After the victory of the Union in the United States Civil War, Great Britain had to turn to which country for cotton for their textile industry?
India
Why was the Erie Canal's completion important to American Industrialization?
The Erie Canal Connected the Eastern Seaboard to the Great Lakes, down to the Mississippi River. This allowed for the Eastern USA to be connected via waterways.
What is the major difference between the USA and Russia's process of industrialization?
USA= led by Private companies and human capital
Russia= led by the government in a top-down approach
How did the Large Chinese Population of the Qing dynasty inhibit the ability of the Qing to Industrialize.
It created a lack of incentive to mechanize production because of the large population.