The -ism used to justify imperialism that implies that some people or countries are naturally better or "fitter" than others is...
Social Darwinism
Laissez faire economics involves...
free markets-- allowing businesses to regulate markets and working conditions with NO government regulation
Name one cause of the industrial revolution.
Agricultural revolution causing small farmers to move to cities, urbanization, access to natural resources (coal, iron, water), increased access to capital ($)
The -ism whose goal is the creation of a Jewish state or "homeland" is...
Zionism
An economic and politcal system where the means of production are publicly owned and managed by a democratically elected government is...
Socialism
When people move from rural areas to cities, this is called...
Urbanization
When a country governs a colony by giving power to local leaders that report back to them, this is...
Indirect control
Describe one negative effect of imperialism on colonized countries.
Death, exploitation, loss of land/independence, shift to cash crop agriculture, famine, breakdown of traditional cultures, invasion of foreign wars
What is geopolitics?
When a country makes military, economic, or foreign policy decisions based on GEOGRAPHICAL factors
A system brought on by a worker's revolution where private property, class, and religion do not exist is...
Communism
When a country governs a colony by instating their own foreign leaders, this is...
Direct control
With which industry did the process of industrialization begin?
Textile industry
Which invention (developed in 1804 by Trevithick) revolutionized transportation?
The locomotive
Name one cause of European imperialism.
Desire for more natural resources and new markets to sell products in, Social Darwinist ideology, technological advances like the machine gun and steamboat
The -ism behind industrialization where production of goods is privatized and for profit is...
Capitalism
What nation in the Asian continent resisted colonization successfully?
Thailand (Siam)
What nation in the African continent resisted colonization successfully?
Ethiopia
This is a picture of the...
Spinning jenny
Name one positive effect of industrialization.
Increase in jobs, greater variety or products, impulsed inventions and technological progress, economic gains, educational opportunities, creation of unions
Name one negative effect of industrialization.
Child labor, pollution, disease and terrible living conditions in cities, rising class tensions due to widening gap between upper and working class
One country taking control of and settling another country as a colony in order to exploit its resources and people is...
Colonialism
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