Unit 2 Test Study Guide

Question 1

When was the Industrial Revolution?

Answer 1

The century between 1750-1850

Question 2

When was the Berlin Conference and scramble for Africa?

Answer 2

Scramble for Africa: Late 19th century (1880-1914)

Berlin Conference: 1884-1885

Question 3

When was the Rwanda Genocide?

Answer 3

1994

Question 4

When did the last residential school close?

Answer 4

1996

Question 5

What was the silk road and why was it important?

Answer 5

Trade route traced back to 3rd century BCE that expanded trade and the exchange of good and ideas. First time humans travelled far distances to trade.

Question 6

In what ways did cultural contact affect people?

Answer 6

It can have positive affects like acculturation where one culture can mix with another (fusion cuisine) or negative affects like the spread of diseases, conflict or assimilation (absorption of culture into another)

Question 7

In what ways did imperialism lead to the economic system of mercantilism?

Answer 7

When countries were seeking to create an empire elsewhere for the purpose of new markets and goods to trade with they would employ colonies to produce resources to ship back to the mother country

Question 8

What was the scramble for Africa and what was it motivated by?

Answer 8

Label for a period of time when European competed and took over Africa because they wanted

• markets for their goods
• raw materials to produce their goods
• a monopoly on selling their goods

Question 9

What is industrialization and how did it change the world?

Answer 9

Industrialization was the process of when our economy changed from being reliant on agriculture to manufacture, it altered the labor industries and revolutionized the production and speed of how we receive/make our goods

Question 10

What were the different types of slavery?

Answer 10

Chattel slavery (involuntary and hereditary) and Indentured Slavery (contract)

Question 11

What are some affects of slavery?

Answer 11

Jim Crow laws, Redlining, segregation, War on Drugs

Question 12

What was the British East India Company and how did Britain protect its own interests in the textile industry?

Answer 12

BEIC was the company that Britain used to trade with India they protected their own interests by:

• Only the BEIC could trade in India and Asia
• Formed alliances with traditional Indian rulers to keep trade flowing
• Created their own army to deal with competitors