unit 5: box notes 45-59

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mass production

the mass production of goods introduced by industrialization in europe

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agricultural revolution

Farmers introduced new technology to boost production. Fewer people were needed to work on farms

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urbanization

Movement of people from the country to the cities

  • large population shift

  • Cities crowded and dirty

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cottage industries

were destroyed by competition from British manufactured goods.

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meiji restoration

1868-1912, where Japan went through a rapid period of modernization and industrialization in order to become stronger.

  • Changes took place in Japan’s government, the economy and social life.

  • Japan eventually became a modern industrial power who began to build an empire overseas.

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spinning jenny

Allowed large quantities of thread to be made quickly

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self strengthening

china’s ____ movement was the mixing of Chinese culture with European industrialization – Xixi ends it (1861-1895)

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great britain

(1750s) industrialization in europe began in _____.

  • Large Colonial Empire: many colonies bring in raw materials

  • Transportation and Communication: coastal trade, canals, port towns, postal service, newspapers, most powerful navy

  • Agricultural Revolution: Farmers introduced new technology to boost production. Fewer people were needed to work on farms

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geographical advantages

  • many harbors, rivers.

  • Natural Resources-coal

  • Island- protected from invasion

  • close to European Markets

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steam engines

used to power locomotives

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locomotives

Unified the economy by linking regions together

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commodore matthew perry

led American warships to Japan.

  • presents a letter from the United States President asking that Japan open its ports to trade

  • Europeans and Americans wanted to use Japan to resupply their ships.

  • Japan was impressed by American power and signed a treaty that ended Japan’s isolation

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shogun

A rebellion in Japan began that removed the power of the Japanese ______

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zaibatsu

wealthy families to whom factories were sold (they became factory owners)

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factory owners

  • grew very rich

  • Lives of workers grew worse

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workers

  • Dangerous working conditions

  • Long hours

  • Low pay

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tsarist russia

factories and railroads were developed here (was russia’s vision of industrialization)

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muhammad ali

developed a cotton textile industry in Egypt

  • More money for himself rather than for the Ottomans

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suffrage

expanded in Britain (Some governments mitigated the negative effects of industrial capitalism by promoting various types of reforms.)

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public education

present in many states and in 1881 was legally required in Britain