Nationalism and Imperialism
embodies a deep sense of loyalty and pride individuals feel towards their nation. This sentiment is typically rooted in commonalities such as language, culture, shared history, or ethnic identity, forming a basis for unity and collective national identity.
What is Nationalism
This invention by James Watt greatly improved steam engines and helped power factories and trains.
what is the Steam Engine
This social reform movement pushed for laws limiting the number of hours women and children could work in factories.
What is the labor reform
This French philosopher championed freedom of speech and religion and criticized intolerance in works like Candide.
Who is Voltaire
This policy allowed powerful nations to extend their control over weaker territories for economic and political gain.
What is imperialism
This transportation innovation allowed goods and people to move faster during the Industrial Revolution.
What is the railroad
This British law of 1833 restricted child labor by limiting the hours children could work and requiring factory inspections. This was called the Factory Act of 1833. What is an example of what?
What is child labor laws
This English thinker argued that people are born with natural rights to life, liberty, and property.
Who is John Locke
This unification movement, led by Otto von Bismarck through “blood and iron,” strengthened nationalism in Central Europe.
What is the unification of Germany?
This energy source replaced water and muscle power as the main source of industrial energy.
What is coal?
Many working-class women joined these organizations to fight for better wages, shorter hours, and safer working conditions in factories.
What are labor unions
This social contract theorist wrote The Social Contract and believed that government should express the “general will” of the people.
Who is Jean-Jacques Rousseau
This ideology motivated anti-colonial movements in the 20th century by encouraging people with shared culture and history to demand independence.
What is self-determination
This economic thinker wrote The Wealth of Nations and argued that free markets, not government control, would create prosperity during industrialization.
Who is Adam Smith
Many children worked in these industrial settings, often facing dangerous machinery, long hours, and little pay.
What are factories
Enlightenment ideas inspired these late-18th-century events, including revolutions in America and France.
What are democratic revolutions (or the American and French Revolutions)
This economic motive for imperialism was driven by industrialized nations’ need for raw materials and new markets, especially during the late 19th century.
What is industrial capitalism
This major social problem emerged in rapidly industrializing cities, characterized by overcrowding, disease, and poor sanitation.
What is urbanization
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Enlightenment ideas about natural rights, liberty, and equality contributed to this major late-18th-century political event, which overthrew a monarchy and established a republic in Europe.
What is the French Revolution