Industrial Revolution and Imperialism

Question 1

industrial revolution

Answer 1

Started in GB; 18-19th centuries; farming, rural societies became industrial and urban

Question 2

Nationalism

Answer 2

devotions to one’s own national group

Question 3

Social darwinism

Answer 3

“Survival of the Fittest”

Question 4

Cottage industry

Answer 4

Crafted products made in the home by skilled person

Question 5

Urbanization

Answer 5

Movement of people from countryside to cities

Question 6

Scramble for Africa

Answer 6

Europeans wanted African land becuase it had land, laborers and natural resources

Question 7

assembly line

Answer 7

large scale production of objects by unskilled people, each doing one job along an assembly line

Question 8

enclosure movement

Answer 8

landowners combined small fields into large fields and fenced them in

Question 9

Berlin Conference

Answer 9

Germany chopped up land in Africa and took it for their own

Question 10

Colony (Somali land, French Colony)

Answer 10

Country or region “governed internally by foreign power”

Question 11

Protectorate (ex Britain over Niger River Delta)

Answer 11

a country or territory with it’s own internal government but under “control of an outside foreign power”

Question 12

Economic imperialism (Dole Fruit Co controlled pineapple trade in Hawaii)

Answer 12

Independent but less developed nations controlled by private business interests rather than by other governments

Question 13

Sphere of influence (liberia under US influence)

Answer 13

Outside power stakes claim exclusive investment of trading privileges with a country

Question 14

Opium Wars

Answer 14

British East India Co imported opium to China; many became addicted; Chinese official demanded that opium trade in Canto stop; GB refused; war started

Question 15

Sepoy Rebellion

Answer 15

Started when Sepoy Indian troops refused to use ammo believed to be dipped in pork fat. Pigs and cows were sacred. Also unhappy due to oppression of religion, land takeovers. In the end, India dissolved British East Indian Company and Britain took control of India directly

Question 16

Reasons for imperialization of Africa

Answer 16

1. Raw materials
2. Natural Resources
3. Cheap Labor
4. New marketplaces for manufactured goods

Question 17

Reasons for imperialization of Asia

Answer 17

GB helped out India by building canals, bridges, RRs. They traded their tea for indian cotton. India became the JEwel of the Crown.

Question 18

Connection of Enclosure Movement to Industrial Revolution

Answer 18

Enclosure movement took land away from peasants and combined lands to increase productivity. Peasants were forced to go to cities to work because their farming conditions became too poor.