The Industrial Revolution
This invention by James Watt greatly improved the efficiency of engines and powered factories during the Industrial Revolution.
What is the steam engine?
This European country controlled India during much of the 19th century.
Great Britain
This movement sought to end the transatlantic slave trade and slavery.
What is abolitionism?
This type of labor system replaced slavery in many regions, where workers signed contracts for fixed periods.
What is indentured servitude?
This political ideology emphasizes loyalty and devotion to one’s nation.
What is nationalism?
This country was the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution
Great Britain
This 1884–1885 conference divided Africa among European powers without African input.
What is the Berlin Conference?
This 19th-century movement aimed to improve wages and working conditions for industrial laborers.
What is the labor reform movement?
Many Chinese migrants in the 19th century traveled to this country to work on railroads.
What is the United States?
This Italian nationalist leader was known for his role in unifying Italy.
Who is Giuseppe Garibaldi?
The mechanization of this industry was one of the first and most significant impacts of industrialization.
What is the textile industry?
This rebellion against British rule in India was sparked by grievances among Indian soldiers over cultural insensitivity.
What is the Sepoy Rebellion?
This document, written in 1848 at the Seneca Falls Convention, called for gender equality.
What is the Declaration of Sentiments?
This migration system involved Japanese workers signing contracts to labor in Hawaii and other Pacific islands.
What is the Japanese "kanyaku imin" migration?
This 1848 publication argued for the overthrow of capitalist systems.
What is "The Communist Manifesto"?
This process, developed by Henry Bessemer, revolutionized steel production and construction.
What is the Bessemer process?
This term refers to the idea that it was Europe’s duty to "civilize" colonized peoples, popularized by Rudyard Kipling.
What is the "White Man's Burden"?
This thinker co-authored "The Communist Manifesto," which critiqued capitalism and proposed socialism as an alternative.
Who is Karl Marx?
This policy restricted Chinese immigration to the United States in 1882.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
This Chinese rebellion, led by a self-proclaimed brother of Jesus, sought to establish a "Heavenly Kingdom of Peace."
What is the Taiping Rebellion?
This group of workers, named after a mythical figure, protested against industrialization by destroying machines in the early 19th century.
Who are the Luddites?
This leader in Ethiopia successfully resisted European colonization at the Battle of Adwa in 1896.
Who is Emperor Menelik II?
This European law abolished slavery across the British Empire in 1833.
What is the Slavery Abolition Act?
This global diaspora was caused by the Great Famine in the mid-19th century.
What is the Irish diaspora?
This economic system developed during the Industrial Revolution focuses on private ownership and free markets.
What is capitalism?