Industrial Revolution
This country is where the Industrial Revolution began
Great Britain
The 1884-1885 international meeting where European powers agreed on rules to divide Africa.
The Berlin conference (1884-1885)
This trading company played a central role in establishing British control over India.
British East India Company
This mid-19th century conflict marked the beginning of large-scale Western imperialism in China and involved British attempts to force trade.
The Opium War
This 1898 war marked the United States' emergence as an overseas imperial power.
The Spanish-American War
Name the industry that was first transformed by mechanized production in the Industrial Revolution.
Textiles
Name one African nation that successfully resisted European colonization in the late 1800s.
Ethiopia or Liberia
The 1857 uprising against British rule in India was sparked in part by soldiers (sepoys) angry over rifle cartridges rumored to be greased with this.
Animal fat from cows/pigs
The treaty following an early 19th-century war forced China to cede or open territory and ports to British influence-name it (year optional).
Treaty of Nanking (1842)
Name one territory the U.S. gained control of as a result of the 1898 war.
Puerto Rico, Guam, the Philippines
This process, invented by Bessemer and others, made steel production faster and cheaper and fueled railroad and building booms.
The Bessemer process (steel production)
This Belgian king treated the Congo as his personal colony, leading to extreme exploitation.
Name the primary group of Indian recruits who served in the British army and whose grievances helped spark the 1857 rebellion.
Sepoys
What were "spheres of influence" in China during the era of imperialism?
Regions where foreign powers had exclusive economic privileges and control over trade within China.
Which Pacific island was annexed in 1989 largely for its strategic value and sugar plantations?
Hawaii
This inventor's work with a steam-powered boat and improvements in steam engines helped free factories from rivers and expand industrial locations.
Robert Fulton/improvements to the steam engine (steam power)
This ideology-appealing to supposed scientific reasoning-was used to justify European domination by claiming superiority of certain peoples.
Social Darwinism
After the Sepoy Rebellion, Britain hanged how it governed India-describe one major political consequence (ownership or governance shift).
Direct Crown rule/end of company rule; establishment of the British Raj.
This mid-1800s U.S. Navy Admirals arrival ended Japan's long period of isolation and led to rapid modernization.
Commodore Matthew Perry
In the mid-1800s, the United States purchased this vast northern territory from Russia.
Alaska
Identify the social and economic system proposed by Karl Marx as a reaction to industrial capitalism; name its founder and one key idea.
Communism-Karl Marx; key idea: collective ownership of means of production/classless society.
These wars, fought at the turn of the 20th century, involved British forces and Dutch-descended settlers over control of South African territories.
The Boer Wars
Explain how economic imperialism affected Indian artisans and traditional industries during British rule (one clear effect).
Decline of traditional artisans and local industries due to cheap manufactured imports; deindustrialization.
Japan's victory over this nation around 1905 demonstrated Japan's emergence as a major world power.
Russia in the Russo-Japanese War
Identify one economic or political motive (other than military strategy) behind late 19th-century U.S. expansionism into places like the Philippines and Hawaii.
access to new markets for American goods, access to raw materials (e.g., sugar, tropical products), and economic opportunities for investment