Indistrialization
This book, written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, outlines what the authors believed to be the social problems associated with capitalism:
The Communist Manifesto
Name 2 technologies that emerged, making it significantly easier to grow and administer an empire:
- telegraph
- guns (maxim gun specifically)
- quinine
- railroads
- steamships
This dynasty took over after the collapse of the Ming Dynasty:
Qing
This economic system in which private parties make their goods and services available on a free market seek to take advantage of market conditions to profit from their activities:
Capitalism
What country did the U.S. men’s Olympic hockey team defeat in the semifinals of the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, a game commonly known as the Miracle on Ice?
The Soviet Union
This man pioneered the assembly line for automobile production:
Henry Ford
The British occupied Egypt, in large part because they wanted to protect this (the main route to India from Britain):
the Suez Canal
This was the prevailing religion/philosophy in Ming/Qing China:
Confucianism
Name 2 prominent European joint-stock companies:
- East India Company
- VOC
The United States bought Alaska from which country?
Russia
Fourier, Owen, and their followers, following this social and economic philosophy, wanted to establish ideal and equitable communities:
Utopian socialism
In the 1800s, military officers and imperialist adventurers engaged in a risky pursuit of influence and intelligence that British agents referred to as:
"the great game"
hint: tent government
bakufu
The name given the Chinggis Khan at birth was:
Temujin
What was the name of the series of programs and projects President Franklin D. Roosevelt enacted during the Great Depression?
The New Deal
These people were organized bands of English handicraft workers who destroyed textile machines that they blamed for their low wages and unemployment:
Luddites
Name 2 (modern-day) countries that France controlled in the Pacific:
- Vietnam
- Cambodia
- Laos
Beginning in the early 17th century, this type of Japanese theater, which usually featured several acts and stylized acting, lyrical singing, and dancing, emerged:
Kabuki
This woman the Kingdom of Ndongo and fought vigorously against Portuguese forces:
Queen Nzinga
What do the stripes on the American flag represent?
the 13 original colonies
This man invented both the cotton gin and new techniques for using machines to make guns:
Eli Whitney
Name 4 (modern-day) countries that Britain had colonial control over in south Asia:
- India
- Pakistan
- Bangladesh
- Sri Lanka
- Burma (Myanmar)
Name one Christian missionary to Japan:
- Christovao Ferreira
- Francis Xavier
In the eastern half of North America, mound-building people created enormous earthen mounds known as:
Cahokia
What was the name of the landmark Supreme Court case that ruled the racial segregation of schools unconstitutional?
Brown v. Board of Education