1750 - 1900 Introduction

Question 1

1750-1900

Answer 1

• start of major changes: (The “IIR”)
• Industrialism
• Imperialism
• Revolution
• End of the period: World War I
• Boxer Revellion, Meiji Restoration, Partitioning Africa, Haitian Revolution, Simon Boulevard)

Question 2

growth of Europe

Answer 2

• population, markets, and industry
• Industrial Revolution: thus a need for raw materials
• 1st:: Coal and Steel
• 2nd: Steel and Electricity

Question 3

Political Revolutions (Enlightenment thinking)

Answer 3

• In Europe
• In South America
• In Caribbean region

Question 4

Western Domination of Europe (Imperialism)

Answer 4

• to include United States
• Africa, China, and India being dominated by European powers
• this dominance would lead to revolts (i.e. Boxer Rebellion)

Question 5

technology

Answer 5

• it improves in industry, medicine, recreational
• technology kept improving with the same idea (i.e) the evolution of the phone)
• telegraph, phone, canals, steamships, railroads

Question 6

establishing markets

Answer 6

• sugar, cotton, coffee, tobacco, rubber, guano, etc.

Question 7

migration

Answer 7

• due to: famines, gold rush, slave trade, markets, etc.
• this also puts a change in labor systems (Russia eliminates serfdom)
• lots of people migrating to North and South America

Question 8

industrialization

Answer 8

• pay attention to cause and effect as well as those involved
• 1750. Coal, Steam
• 1850. Steel, Electricity
• auto-catalytic

Question 9

Japan

Answer 9

• Mejia Restoration
• state sponsored industrialization
• a result of European imperialism
• Commodore Perry

Question 10

trade imbalances

Answer 10

• leads to the Opium wars
• Japan comes out of isolation through the Mejia Restoration
• the Slave Trade ends
• world is truly global

Question 11

what did not change

Answer 11

• Ottoman Empire remained stagnant
• Qing Dynasty
• Africa depleted of resources
• Mercantilism/Economic Imperialism
• Elites stay in power
• little change for non-elites
• majority of the world remains rural

Question 12

How was India affected during industrialization?

Answer 12

• it was parcelled & divided - other countries controlled portions

Question 13

To review, which continent’s rise lead to the Atlantic slave trade?

Answer 13

• Europe

Question 14

Which hemisphere dominated trade and power during modern times and early industrialization?

Answer 14

• western

Question 15

how did industrialization affect the US?

Answer 15

• the US quickly rose to power

Question 16

which economic system led to the birth of communism and socialism?

Answer 16

• capitalism led to both

Question 17

what major event shifted the focus away from industrialization

Answer 17

• the move to World War I

Question 18

why did Japan eventually industrialize in modern times

Answer 18

• the state sponsored industrialization

- the West brought trade to the east

Question 19

how did industrialization affect the role of the worker?

Answer 19

• they were held in low regard

Question 20

how did China and Japan react to Western power

Answer 20

• they each reacted differently

Question 21

why is this term, “auto catalytic” important for understanding industrialization era?

Answer 21

• one discovery improved and dramatically changed lives & industry