Industrial Revolution
James Watt invented this in the late 18th century. It powered textile factories, enabled those factories to be built away from rivers, and provided a new means for transportation.
What is the steam engine?
Adam Smith wrote this famous book about capitalism in 1776.
What is The Wealth of Nations?
These were the wealthier peasants in the Soviet Union that were either killed or sent to gulags.
Who are the kulaks?
This was the meeting of the major European powers in Germany that led to the partitioning of Africa and colonization by Europe.
What was the Berlin Conference?
The article you read for homework about British imperialism in India was called, "But what about the _________________?"
What are railways?
In industrial capitalism, this is the name for the people that work in the factories.
What is the proletariat?
Who co-wrote the Communist Manifesto with Karl Marx in 1848?
This was the phenomenon in the Soviet Union when Stalin had his political opponents killed.
What are the Great Purges?
This was the author of "The White Man's Burden" poem.
Who is Rudyard Kipling?
This is the religious divide in India that Tharoor argues was exacerbated by the British during the era of imperialism.
What are Hindus and Muslims?
In the City Planning Game, this was the land that was owned by the government that could be rented by poor farmers. It was eventually enclosed and sold to wealthy farmers.
What is The Commons?
What are the three areas of society that John Molyneux believed could be improved in a socialist system?
What is transportation, food, and housing?
This was the period after the Chinese Revolution when Mao tried to industrialize China and collectivize Chinese farms. Millions died as a result.
What is the Great Leap Forward?
This was a term used to describe scientific racism during the late 19th century. It was used by Europeans to justify colonizing Africa and Asia.
What is Social Darwinism?
Both India and Kenya were examples of this type of British rule in their colonies.
What is indirect rule?
This is the name for the way textiles were manufactured before the factory system.
What is a cottage industry?
This is the term to describe a free market economy in which the government is hands off or lets the economy proceed without interference.
What is laissez-faire economics?
This was the feminist organization created in the Soviet Union that sought to create equality between the genders----women were afforded access to divorce and abortion and encouraged to work in industrial jobs.
What is the Zhenotdel?
This was an impulse that led to imperialism that was on display in the ABC for Baby Patriots book. It fostered a great deal of pride in Britain.
What is nationalism?
This was the first president of an independent Kenya beginning in 1963.
Who is Jomo Kenyatta?
These are two positive effects and two negative effects of industrialization.
Wealth accumulation, industrial middle class, more efficient transportation, innovation and inventions, mass production, jobs, increased standard of living...
Environmental degradation, unsafe working conditions, low wages, workers exploited, child labor...
Adam Smith said when people act out of ________________________ they will benefit the economy. He also said that _________________________________________ would lead to more efficient production.
What is self-interest and division of labor.
Mao implemented this reform in China in the 1960s to punish opponents of the communist revolution and to rid China of all remnants of pre-communist society.
What was the Cultural Revolution?
These were the four causes of (or impulses for) imperialism in the late 19th century.
What is 1. Industrialization, 2. Nationalism, 3. Scientific Racism, 4. Religious and Humanitarian Impulse?
This was the pass that Kenyans had to wear around their necks indicating second-class status during British colonization.
What is the kipande?