Unit 6: Consequences of Industrialization

1750-1900

Urbanization

increase in transfer/spread of ideas

Agricultural Revolution fueled…

Industrial Revolution

Europe

profited at the expense of other countries

Social Darwinism

survival of the fittest

Rudyard Kipling’s White Man’s Burden

European countries burdened with civilizing other populations

British East India Company

conquered India, formed administrative regions

Sepoy Mutiny

Sepoys rebelled against BEIC

Consequence of Sepoy Mutiny

Mughal Empire abolished, British takeover of India

British influence

Christianity, railroads, canals

Indian National Congress

sought independence from British

What Chinese dynasty was in power for most of this time period?

Qing

Opium Wars ended in…

Treaty of Nanjing / “unequal treaties”

Germany, Britian, France, Russia established what in China during Manchu rule?

businesses, military bases, communications

Open Door Policy

US supported equal trading privileges for Chinese

Boxer Rebellion

Boxers failed to remove foreign influence from China

Treaty of Kanagawa gave foreign countries what

power over Japan

Emperor Meiji

modernization and reform