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Industrial Revolution & Imperialism Study Guide
Mr. Wiggins
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THE ORIGINS OF THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
How did the Agricultural Revolution contribute to the start of the Industrial Revolution?
What was the enclosure movement?
What were the two consequences/results of the enclosure movement?
Where did the Industrial Revolution first develop?
What did Jethro Tull create? How did contribute to the Agricultural Revolution?
What revolutionary idea did Viscount Charles “Turnip” Townshend develop?
What did Jethro Wood create? What was its importance?
What were the “factors of production” that Britain possessed?
What was the fist industry to industrialize? Be able to explain the process of this industry’s mechanization.
What was the domestic system (aka: the cottage industry)?
Who was John Kay and what did he develop?
Who was James Hargreaves and what did he develop?
What was Richard Awkwright’s claim to fame?
What was the factory system?
How did Eli Whitney contribute to the mechanization of the textile industry?
Before steam power, what kind of power did early factories use? What were the drawbacks of this energy source?
Who was Thomas Newcomen and what did he develop?
Who was James Watt and what did he deveolop?
What did John McAdam create?
Who was George Stephenson and what was his “rocket”?
What were the major effects of the locomotive?
Who was Robert Fulton and what was the “Clermont”?
Who was Samuel Cunard?
THE SPREAD OF INDUSTRIALIZATION
Explain why it took several years for the rest of Europe to industrialize like Great Britain.
What country led Europe in adopting Britain’s new technology?
Who was Samuel Slater and how did he contribute to the spread of industrialization?
Who was Francis Cabot Lowell and what did he do?
What motivated young American single women to flock from their rural homes to work as mill girls?
Who was William Cockerill?
Why did industry grow more slowly in the German states than in Great Britain?
What was the importance of RRs in Germany?
Explain the two ways in which the French govt. helped industrial development?
Why did some European countries NOT industrialize?
What region of the U.S. experience most of the industrial growth?
Similar to Britain, what causes contributed to the industrial boom in the U.S.?
What was the impact of RRs on the industrialization of the U.S.?
What is stock? What are corporations?
What put the “Big” in Big Business?
How did the Industrial Revolution motivate the Age of Imperialism?
What is imperialism?
THE ROOTS OF IMPERIALISM
What was self-sufficiency and how did it drive imperialism?
What were the other causes or influences of imperialism?
Describe the Europeans’ attitude/perception regarding people from non-industrialized regions of the world.
-What social theory helped reflected this attitude?
What was the point of the “White Man’s Burden” and who was its author?
How did imperialism create bitter rivalries among imperial powers?
What is a protectorate? What is a sphere of influence? What is economic imperialism?
Explain the method of indirect control of a colony. What imperial powers used this type?
Explain the method of direct control of a colony. What imperial powers used this type?
-What is the policy called paternalism?
-What is assimilation?
IMPERIALISM OF AFRICA
What “External” factors deemed Africa prone to imperialism?
What “Internal” factors deemed Africa prone to imperialism?
What was the Berlin Conference? Why did German chancellor Otto von Bismarck call for it?
Who was David Livingstone? Accomplishments?
Who was Sir Henry Morton Stanley? Accomplishments?
Describe how imperialism developed in the Congo. What imperial power was present and what were their practices?
Who were the Boers? What was their motivation for settling in South Africa?
What was Britain’s motivation for settling South Africa?
What was the Great Trek?
Who controlled the Orange Free State & Transvaal?
Who founded Natal?
Who were the “Outlanders”?
Why did the Boer War occur? Who won and what was the outcome?
Who was Cecil Rhodes?
What was apartheid?
What is the African National Congress?
Who was F.W. DeKlerk and what changes did he bring about in South Africa?
Who is Nelson Mandela?
What helped to spark change in South Africa?
How did Ethiopia maintain its independence?
Who was Ethiopia’s leader during this time?
EUROPEANS CLAIM MUSLIM LANDS
What is “geopolitics” and how did this play into the European acquisition of Muslim lands?
What was the Crimean War? What happened?
How did the Russians eventually gain access to a warm-weather port on the Black Sea?
What is the khedive?
Who was Ferdinand de Lesseps? What did he build?
Who bought most of the stock in de Lesseps’s business venture?
Describe the financial woes of the khedive Isma’il.
How did Britain come to acquire the Suez Canal?
How did Britain come to acquire Egypt?
BRITISH IMPERIALISM IN INDIA
What British organization came to “rule” India?
What was the initial role of the British govt. in the imperialism of India?
What were Sepoys?
What does “jewel in the crown” mean, and why was it applied to India?
How did the construction of RRs in India help promote the British intentions?
What were most of the raw materials that were being extracted from India?
What were the negatives of British imperialism in India?
What were the positives of the British imperialism in India?
What fueled the Sepoy Mutiny?
Who put down the Sepoy Mutiny?
What was the “raj”?
How did nationalist feelings among Indians lead to the liberation of India?
Who was Mohandas Gandhi?
When did India become independent?
IMPERIALISM IN SOUTHEAST ASIA
What lands did the Dutch East Company come to imperialize?
What was so attractive about the lands of S.E. Asia for imperialists?
What lands did the British take control of?
Why was Singapore such a valuable island to have control of?
What lands did the French come to imperialize?
What countries made up French Indochina?
How did colonization of S.E. Asia bring mixed results?
How did the kingdom of Siam avoid European colonization?
How did the U.S. acquire the Philippines?
Who was Emilio Aguinaldo?
Were the Americans true to their promise of vacating the Philippines following the Spanish-American War? Explain.
What was the attraction of Hawaii to the U.S.?
What was the McKinley Tariff Act?
Why was the annexation of Hawaii desired more than simply colonizing it?
Who was Queen Liliuokalani?
Who was Sanford B. Dole?
CHINA RESISTS OUTSIDE INFLUENCE (from reading pages 616-623)
What was China’s last dynasty?
What were the Opium Wars? What sparked them?
What were the “unequal treaties”?
Who were the “foreign devils”?
What was the Taiping Rebellion?
What caused the Taiping Rebellion?
Who was Empress Dowager Cixi?
What was the Sino-Japanese fought over? Who were the combatants and which of them was victorious?
What was the Boxer Rebellion?
What was the New China Movement?
Who was Sun Yat-sen and the Kuomintang (KMT)?
Who took over for Sun Yat-sen when he died?
What other political party did the Kuomintang persecute?
What was the Long March of 1934?
Who was the leader of the CCP?
To what group of people did the CCP leader look for support?
What country invaded China? How did this country’s invasion change the civil war that was occurring in China?
To where did the defeated KMT take refuge?
With the victorious CCP, what did China’s new official name become?
MODERNIZATION OF JAPAN
How successful was the West initially in opening up trade with Japan?
Who was Commodore Matthew C. Perry and what did he do?
What was the Treaty of Kanagawa and what did it accomplish?
Why did the Japanese people turn to the emperor Mutsuhito? What happened to the Tokugawa shogunate?
What does the term Meiji mean?
What did the Meiji emperor do in order to counter the Western influence? What elements of Western cultures did the
Japanese adopt during this time? Explain how Japan became more Western. How did it pay off?
Explain how Japan became more imperialistic.
What was the Russo-Japanese War and its outcome?
After defeating Russia, what did Japan do with Korea?