Unit 6 Vocabulary

ANSWER 1q This gave industrialized nations raw materials and markets to exploit

1a Imperialism

2q ANSWER This uprising was an attempt to rid China of foreigners

2a Boxer Rebellion

3q ANSWER Migration into the city

3a urbanization

4q ANSWER This British imperialist and successful businessman was a major supporter of British expansion

4a Cecil Rhodes

5q ANSWER Name given to the westernization, modernization, industrialization, and end to Japanese isolationism

5a Meiji Restoration

6q ANSWER Political/economic system that believes that government should reform business

6a Socialism

7q ANSWER The belief that the Jews should have a homeland

7a Zionism

8q ANSWER A number of unfair treaties between China and various Western powers in the 19 th century. The Treaty of Nanjing is an example

8a unequal treaties

9q ANSWER The shift in England during the 18 th century from making goods by hand to making them by machine. Numerous people would move to the cities as a result

9a Industrial Revolution

10q ANSWER A disregard for ethnicity and culture occurred during this as European countries tried to “get what they could”

10a Scramble for Africa

11q ANSWER The white man’s responsibility to show the world their “advanced ways”

11a White Man’s Burden

12q ANSWER This factory owner made numerous reforms including education and age limits of factory workers

12a Robert Owen

13q ANSWER Investors put their money in their business

13a Capitalism

14q ANSWER European countries made up rules for carving up Africa

14a Congress of Berlin

15q ANSWER This showed Japan was a military power and Russia was outdated

15a Russo-Japanese War

16q ANSWER The stronger countries will control the weaker ones.

16a Social Darwinism

17q ANSWER This gave the United States access to two Japanese ports.

17a Treaty of Kanajawa

18q ANSWER Belief that government should stay out of business’ affairs.

18a laissez-faire

19q ANSWER The leader of the Jewish Zionist movement

19a Theodor Herzl

20q ANSWER A disrespect for Indian culture led to this uprising by Indian soldiers against the British

20a Sepoy Mutiny

21q ANSWER This famine led to mass death and migration from Ireland

21a Irish potato famine

22q ANSWER Type of economy where goods are produced on a supply and demand basis

22a Market economy

23q ANSWER United States policy which stated that China should be open to all merchants. This actually kept China from being colonized

23a Open Door policy

24q ANSWER He believed that all history was a struggle between the classes (the haves and have-nots)

24a Karl Marx

25q ANSWER A conflict between Britain and China over Britain’s trade. This showed China how weak they in fact were.

25a Opium Wars

26q He believed in the Principals of Population that population would always exceed food supply. New inventions that made for greater food production proved him wrong ANSWER

26a Thomas Malthus

27q This time period led to a great output of crops. Fewer farmers were needed. People began to move to the cities to work in the factories. ANSWER

27a Agrarian Revolution

28q This looked into the practice of child labor by interviewing those involved ANSWER

28a Sadler Report

29q After the Russo- Japanese War of 1904, Japan would annex this nation ANSWER

29a Korea

30q Conflict in which the British and the Dutch farmers fought for control of South Africa ANSWER

30a Boer War

31q Goods were no longer made at home. They could be made cheaper and faster. ANSWER

31a Factory System

32q His book, The Wealth of a Nation, supported the idea of laissez faire ANSWER

32a Adam Smith

33q Term given to European control of areas of China ANSWER

33a Spheres of Influence

34q This war which took place in Korea showed Japan to be a world power. ANSWER

34a Sino-Japanese War

35q Economic/political system where people own the means to production. Everyone owns everything, no one owns anything. ANSWER

35a Communism