Industrialization
This nation maintained a geographic, political, social, and economic advantage to industrialization at the beginning of the 19th century.
What is Great Britain.
Emphasized change through adaptation and supported the restoration of legitimate monarchs in 1815; hated revolution.
What is Conservatism.
The use or threat of military force to coerce a government into economic or political agreements.
What is gunboat diplomacy.
Her name is synonymous with an age of prosperity, bourgeois respectability, and English imperial greatness during the second half of the 19th century.
Who is Queen Victoria I (1837-1901).
The shocking loss to Japan was a contributing factor to the 1905 revolution in this Eastern European state.
What is Russia.
The 19th century gendered division of labor and lifestyles that cast men as breadwinners and women as homemakers.
What are separate spheres.
The idea that each people had its own identity that manifested itself especially in a common language and history, often leading to the push for independence.
What is Nationalism.
This poem symbolized the confidence and arrogance of European imperialism in the late 19th century.
What is The White Man's Burden.
Reacting to the Romantic movement, these painters and writers attempted to portray life with all of its difficulties in an emerging industrial age.
Who are Realists.
These movements for national independence, liberal democratic constitutions, and social reform ultimately failed.
What were the Revolutions of 1848.
Who are the Labor Aristocracy.
Master of balance of power and restoration, this aristocratic Austrian foreign minister championed all that was traditional and orderly.
Who is Klemens von Metternich.
The 1885 meeting to provide ground rules for imperial expansion. It only led to a race to the interior of the “Dark Continent.”
What is the Berlin Conference.
Theodor Herzl was outraged at the Dreyfus Affair and declared his intent to create a homeland for embattled Jews in Europe, initiating this movement.
What is Zionism.
Due to their rapid industrial development, these two European nations stood as the most urbanized on the eve of WWI (1914).
What are Great Britain and Germany.
Considered the first world’s fair, this was a testament to Britain’s world industrial dominance as of 1851.
What is the Crystal Palace.
Designed to restore to the status quo, this meeting’s neglect of Liberal and nationalist ideas helped create a 30-year period of near continuous revolutions, most unsuccessful.
What is the Congress of Vienna.
Two mid-19th century conflicts between China and Great Britain, designed to "open" China to European free trade.
What are the Opium Wars.
Sanitary reformer who investigated living conditions among the lower classes and whose work led to the first Public Health Act of 1848.
Who is Edwin Chadwick.
Last king of France, he took power in July 1830 Revolution, but resisted demands for the expansion of suffrage, leading to his ouster in 1848.
Who is King Louis-Phillippe (1830-48)?
History’s most rapid period of technological creativity occurred between 1875-1914. Name TWO important developments that changed the world of transportation and communication.
What are airplanes, telephones, telegraph, petroleum, radio, internal combustion engine, etc.?
Doctrine of economic liberalism that calls for unrestricted private enterprise and no government interference in the economy.
What is laissez faire.
Number 12 on the The 100 list, this scientist changed all of our lives with his discoveries regarding microorganisms, and pasteurization in the late 19th century.
Who is Louis Pasteur?
Considered a reforming autocrat, he tried to modernize Russia by freeing the serfs, only to stir up revolutionary movements, which assassinated him in 1881.
Who is Alexander II (1855-81).