Industrial Revolution Inventions
The type of system where workers, machines, and all steps of production take place under one roof.
By the late 18th century, most factory workers were ____ due to factory owners having to pay them less.
What are children?
Indian soldier in the British army.
What is a sepoy?
A meeting between European officials in which the distribution of Africa to European control was decided.
King of Belgium who ordered the atrocities in the Congo.
Who is King Leopold ll?
Eli Whitney invented this, which revolutionized cotton processing in the American South.
What is the cotton gin?
This term describes the migration of people from rural areas to cities during the Industrial Revolution
What is urbanization?
King of Ethiopia who successfully led his troops into battle against the Italians during the Battle of Adwa.
Who is Menelik ll?
This material was extremely sought after in the Congo.
What is rubber?
Only African country to remain independent.
What is Ethiopia?
This invention by Henry Bessemer transformed steel production, enabling taller buildings and stronger machinery.
What is the Bessemer process?
Working conditions in factories were often poor, leading to the rise of this form of protest from workers.
What are strikes?
This theory justified social and economic inequalities as “natural selection” applied to society. AKA ''survival of the fittest'' and the strong will survive.
What is Social Darwinism?
Social, economic, religious, and ______ were all motives of imperialism.
What is political?
Percentage of the world that belonged to the British Empire during the height of imperialism.
What is 25%
Transforming an economy from agriculture (farming) to manufacturing.
What is industrialization?
This economic system, based on private ownership and profit, expanded during the Industrial Revolution.
What is capitalism?
A period of rapid industrialization in Japan after a visit from Commodore Matthew Perry from the United States, marking the end of the samurai.
What is the Meiji Era?
The British began selling this highly addictive drug to the Chinese to make profit and take over more markets in the country.
What is opium?
Hawaii was eventually annexed by this country after European influence and American business interests grew.
What is the United States?
As the number of workers moved to the cities, these poorly constructed ''apartments'' were created to house them.
What are tenements?
This man is considered the father of communism.
Who is Karl Marx?
A manufacturing process where the unfinished product moves in a direct line from workstation to workstation, with parts added in sequence until the final product is completed.
What is the assembly line?
Poem by Rudyard Kipling and idea European/Westerners had to ''civilize'' indigenous peoples.
What is the ''White Man's Burden''?
An anti-imperialist movement which sought to force foreigners out of China.
What was the Boxer Rebellion?