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What are the three main reasons for the formation of labor unions (notes)
Income inequality between factory owners and factory workers, Dangerous working conditions, Long hours
What are the three main conditions of improvement that labor unions argued for? (notes)
Labor unions argued for better pay, safer working conditions, fewer working hours
What are the FIVE positive effects that labor unions had on society (notes)?
Ban on child labor, Public education system, Insurance, Pensions, Increased suffrage
What are the three new economic philosophies created as a result of the Industrial Revolution (notes)?
Communism, socialism, capitalism
Why was the Ottoman Empires called the "sick man of Europe"?
rampant corruption and widespread unrest had led to a decline in the empire
Who was the former Turkish slave who eventually became governor of Egypt and helped Egypt industrialize?
Muhammad Ali
In what two ways did Muhammad Ali improve Egypt's military?
Styled it after European militaries and sent officers to France for education
What American opened up trade with Japan in 1853?
Commodore Matthew Perry
In 1868, Japanese reformers overthrew the shogun and restored the emperor so that Japan could industrialize and protect themselves in what was known as?
The Meiji Restoration
What are three Western reforms that Japan instituted in order to industrialize?
abolished the feudal system, established a constitutional monarchy, est. equality under the law and no cruel punishment, reorganized military, public education
What was the most glaring social problem that Japanese industrialization had?
abuse and exploitation of female Japanese mill workers
What were the powerful Japanese family business organizations (like US conglomerates) called?tes)
zaibatsu
What technology did Toyota Motor Company initially use to become an industrial power?
Automatic loom
What was the name of the military class of former Turkish slaves who had ruled Egypt for about 600 years?
Mamluks
What was the result of secularizing religious lands in Egypt?
It put more agricultural produce in control of the government and resulted in larger wheat profits during the Napoleonic Wars
What were the two "great humiliations" suffered by China at the hands of Europeans in the 1800s?
Defeat in the Opium Wars and division of China into spheres of influence
