What canal did they use if the British wanted to trade with India?
Suez canal
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Capital
Money available for investment
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Cottage industry
Method of production in which tasks are done by individuals working in rural homes
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Kaiser
Title of the emperor of the 2nd german empire
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Duma
The Russian legislative assembly
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Indigenous
Native to a region
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Pogrom
The organized massacre of a minority group, especially the Jews
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Abolitionism
A movement to end slavery
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Proletariat
The working class
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Revisionist
Marxist who rejects the revolutionary approach, believing in evolution
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Feminism
The movement for women's rights
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Plebiscite
A popular vote
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Social Darwinism
The theory used by Western nations in the late 19th century to justify their dominance; based on Charles Darwin's theory of natural selection “survival of the fittest” applied to modern human activities
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What was the population in 1800?
5 million people
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Why was education stressed during the Industrial Revolution?
Factories needed skilled typists and managers to run factories
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Define artistic movement Romanticism
Emphasized feelings, emotions, and imagination as a source of knowing
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What countries make up the triple alliance?
Germany, Italy, Austria-Hungary
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What countries make up the Triple Entente?
Great Britain, France, Russia
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Jethro Tull
seed-drill
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Henry Cort
puddling process
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Oliver and Wilbur Wright
Fixed wing airplane
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Henry Ford
Assembly line
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Robert Fulton
steamboat
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James Hargreaves
Spinning Jenny
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Alexander Graham bell
Telephone
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Guglielmo Marconi
Wireless telegram
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Thomas Edison
Lightbulb
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James Watt
Improved steam engine
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Richard Trevithick
Steamed locomotive
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Edmund Cartwright
loom
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Richard Arkwright
Water frame
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What were Indian soldiers hired by the British east company called?
Sepoys
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What territories did the US acquire after they won the Spanish-American War of 1898?
Cuba, Guam, Puerto Rico, and Philippines
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The Atlantic and Pacific Oceans are connected by what canal?
Panama Canal
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The artistic movement is known as cubism was started by?
Pablo Picasso
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Leopold II was a Belgian King that wanted to colonize?
Central Africa
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The main goal of the 1885 Indian national congress was?
They wanted to have a share of the governing process with the British
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Nursing was turned into a professional occupation because of this British woman
Florence Nightingale
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What raw materials from Southeast Asia that European countries want?
Coffee, Sugar, Palm oil, Rubber, Spices, Tea, Timber, and Tin
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Cecil Rhodes mined what 2 minerals from South Africa?
Diamond and Gold
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In what religion is the cow considered a sacred animal
Hinduism
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Russia invaded the Turkish provinces of Walachia and Moldova and this started which war?
The Crimean war
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Marie Curie
Discovered Radium
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Albert Einstein
Theory of relativity
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Theodor Herzl
Promoted Zionism
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Sigmund Freud
psychoanalysis
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Herbert Spencer
Social Darwinism
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Mohandas Gandhi
Independence for the Indian leader
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Claude Monet
Impressionism Painter
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Emilio Aguinaldo
Independence for the Philippines leader
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Mary Shelley
Author of Frankenstein
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Vincent Van Gogh
Post-impressionism painter
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Louis H. Sullivan
Functionalism
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Wassily Kandinsky
Abstract Painter
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Where did the USA use dollar diplomacy?
Latin America
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What was the main goal of the explorer David Livingstone?
To open up Africa for European commerce and Christianity
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Who were the two liberators of South America?
Jose de San Martin and Simon Bolivar
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What caused the Sepoy Rebellion
The fats from pigs and cows were used to grease rifle cartridges
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In the 1860s, what was the most important transportation in the USA?
Railroads
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Which British queen gained the title Empress of India?
Victoria
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Countries that US military forces were sent to during the early 1900s in Central America: