Test Flashcards
Describe and name the four stages of revolutions (Brinton)
Phase 1: Preliminary Stage
Before fighting, talking stage
Phase 2: Moderate Stage
Fighting starts, fighting still follows rules
Phase 3: Radical Stage
Opposing group seen as “other”, torture, mass murder, terrorism, foreign powers
Phase 4: Recovery Stage
Return to “normal”, shift to new order
Define imperialism
Extending or maintaining control over a foreign nation - usually involves a takeover of land, can involve military
Describe imperialism by Britain
India, Canada, Australia: Military and Economic Takeover
India was considered to be a model colony so there tactics were copied
Describe imperialism by Belgian Congo
Owned privately by King Leopold 2 of Belgium
Controlled to gain rubber
Mistreatment of workers led to international outcry
Describe imperialism by United States
Imperialism for Western Expansion
Concept of “manifest destiny”
Won other regions through war (Philippines, Puerto Rico, Guan, Samoa, Hawaii)
Manifest Destiny:
idea that America And Europe are exceptional and are descended by Shem (blessed son) so essentially, God blessed them and they used this to control Native Americans
Monroe Doctrine
warned European powers not to interfere in the affairs of the Western Hemisphere.
Roosevelt Corollary:
a document that says if a country in Latin America becomes unstable the US has the duty to go into the country and overthrow the government and put in a new one that supports America
Indian Famine:
goods were shipped back to Britain from India, letting people starve so millions of Indians died
Sepoy Revolt:
Britain created conflicts between muslims and hindus (sepoy: Indian Native Military Member
Congo rubber plantations:
forced labor and violent coercion were used to collect the rubber cheaply and maximize profit.
divison of china
Economic Ideologies
Division of China Europe divided China because wanted to profit from Opium
Describe Social Darwinism and its uses
Social Darwinism is the idea that all descended from apes
used to prove racial superiority based on evolution
gave groups a scientific basis to justify actions
Apes became Africans Asians became
Europeans - Further evolved from apes, The better the race is
used to prove criminals are geneticaly misfits
Explain the difference between the first and second Industrial Revolutions
While the First Revolution was driven by limited use of steam engines, interchangeable parts and mass production, and was largely water-powered
the Second was characterized by the build-out of railroads, large-scale iron and steel production, widespread use of machinery in manufacturing, greatly increased use of steam power
List technological advances for both the first and second Industrial Revolutions
Canals: man made waterway (ship coal and stuff easier)
Water Frame: new machine can spin and weave cloth 100 times faster than humans (river powered)
Steam Engine
Railroad
Telephones, Steel, Auto, bikes
Explain how the Enclosure Acts affects both the upper class and the farmers
The enclosure acts allowed wealthy nobles/upper class to divide the commons and buy it, poor farmers were unable to feed themselves
Explain the difference between push and pull factors in migration
Push factors are factors that push you away from a country, make you want to leave
Pull factors are factors that pull you to a country, make you want to move there
Provide examples of push and pull factors of migration
PUSH: diseases, natural disasters, religious reasons, war
PULL: money opportunities, education, laws/rights, job opportunities
Explain the difference between immigration, emigration and migration
Migration: the movement of people or animals from one place to another
Emigration: you are exiting a place
Immigration: coming to a new place
Analyze various reasons for global migrations between 1750-1900 and provide examples
A large amount of Africans immigrated to the US because of slavery (involuntary)
A large amount of Europeans immigrated to the US
WHat was one major immigrant group singled out in the US
Chinese immigrants
Compare the lifestyle of the business owners and the factory workers between 1750-1900
Factory workers
would work about 15 hour days, 6 days a week
Turned to alcohol bc stress
Would be so tired would walk into machinery and die
Would get badly injured by machinery bc exhaustion
Expected to come always cant be late or fired
Explain the effects of industrialization on men, women and children
Cult of domesticity: women stay in house to prove men can support, should have 1 servant, children should play instruments and be sent to college to be better than the parents
imperialism on banana republics
Banana Republic - US- United Fruit Company sells fruit and keeps track of the government.(Foreign)
