Revolutions
This Enlightenment thinker’s ideas on natural rights influenced the American and French Revolutions.
Who is John Locke?
This industry was the first to industrialize in Great Britain.
What is the textile industry?
This reform movement aimed to end slavery across the Atlantic world.
What is abolitionism?
This Asian country successfully resisted colonization by modernizing during the Meiji Restoration.
What is Japan?
This Indian uprising in 1857 challenged British rule.
What is the Sepoy Mutiny (Indian Rebellion of 1857)?
This event marked the beginning of the French Revolution in 1789.
What is the Storming of the Bastille?
This invention by James Watt improved efficiency and powered factories and transportation.
What is the steam engine?
This movement sought to improve women’s rights, including suffrage, during the 19th century.
What is feminism?
This 1884–1885 meeting set the rules for European colonization of Africa.
What is the Berlin Conference?
This economic system made colonies dependent on exporting raw materials and importing finished goods.
What is the colonial economic system (or dependency economy)?
This document declared that sovereignty resided in the nation and not the monarchy during the French Revolution.
What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen?
This system concentrated workers and machines in one location, replacing cottage industries.
What is the factory system?
This ideology argued that society should be organized for the benefit of all, often opposing capitalism.
What is socialism?
This war (1899–1902) was fought between the British and Dutch settlers in South Africa.
What is the Boer War?
This African leader resisted French imperialism in West Africa but was eventually defeated.
Who is Samori Ture?
This phase of the French Revolution was marked by mass executions and the dominance of the Committee of Public Safety.
What is the Reign of Terror?
This economic theory, associated with Adam Smith, argued for minimal government interference in markets.
What is laissez-faire capitalism?
This concept justified imperial expansion by claiming that stronger nations were destined to dominate weaker ones.
What is Social Darwinism?
This rebellion in China sought to expel foreign influence and missionaries.
What is the Boxer Rebellion?
This policy allowed the United States equal trading rights in China.
What is the Open Door Policy?
This Latin American revolutionary led independence movements in northern South America and envisioned a unified Gran Colombia.
Who is Simón Bolívar?
This German philosopher co-authored The Communist Manifesto, criticizing capitalism and industrial society.
Who is Karl Marx?
This term, often used to describe market economies, was popularized by critics such as Marx rather than its original proponents.
What is capitalism?
This king’s personal rule over the Congo Free State became infamous for exploitation and atrocities in pursuit of rubber production.
Who is King Leopold II?
This African empire successfully resisted European colonization by combining modern weaponry with strong leadership, defeating Italy in 1896.
What is Ethiopia (or the Ethiopian Empire)?