1. Period – % of Test

2. 1750 – 1914 What makes it different???
Economics:
Western dominance of trade is clear and the world becomes smaller with new technologies and transportation.
Industrialization creates huge separation between the world powerful countries and those that remain agricultural and “behind.” This difference is highlighted by imperialism

3. 1750 – 1914 What makes it different?
Political:
Political revolutions – for independence or political change
The concept of the nation emerges
Absolutism is challenged and the idea of democracy spreads
Social:
Industrialization impacts: gender patterns and the growing middle class, but also increases the gap between the rich and poor
Labor systems change as slavery and serfdom become less prevalent

4. 1750 – 1914 Industrialization Why did it begin in Britain?
Agricultural change and and Enclosures
New inventions
Natural resources and transportation
Economic and political stability
Where did it spread?
How did industrialization look in Russia and Japan?

5. 1750 – 1914 Industrialization – Impacts
Created a gap between societies
Increased need for natural resources
was a reason for imperialism
led to the dependence on cash crops among non-industrialized regions
Global transportation developed to support the trade in manufactured goods and raw materials
Railroads
New sea lanes – Suez and Panama Canals
Environmental Impacts
Land use and urbanization

6. 1750 – 1914 Industrialization - Impacts
Social Impacts
Urbanization
Gender “equality” ?????
Social Classes
Labor systems
Immigration
Political responses
Reform
Isms!

7. 1750 – 1914 Political Change Sources of change: Revolutions!
Enlightenment Ideas
Those darn bourgeoisie
Revolutions!
American
French
Haitian
Latin America
(later) China
(and Russia is getting ready!)

8. 1750 – 1914 Revolutions
What makes the American and French Revolutions different?
What makes the Haitian Revolution different?
What are some of the reasons revolution spread to Latin America?
How did the conservative reaction to revolution impact Europe? (Congress of Vienna)

9. 1750 – 1914 Revolution - Impacts
What made the outcomes of the independence movements in North America so different from the independence movements in South America?
Political
Economic

10. 1750 – 1914 Revolution - Limitations
Women’s Rights
Racial Equality?
Social Equality?

11. 1750 – 1914 Nationalism!
What makes a nation different from previous types of political entities?
How did nationalism create changes?
France
Italy
Germany

12. 1750 – 1914 What’s going on in those old empires?
The Russian Empire
Catherine the Great the “Enlightened Despot”
Industrialization(?), Crimean War and Reform
Marxism
The “Sickly” Ottoman Empire
Economic issues
Janissaries
Young Turks
Austria-Hungary?
The Qing
From Kangxi to Opium – How did it happen?

13. 1750 – 1914 Imperialism
How did imperialism change over time in Africa?
Slave trade
“legitimate” trade
The Scramble
How did imperialism change over time in South Asia?
The declining Mughal Empire
Company Rule (to 1857)
Direct Rule (to 1947)
Nationalism and the Indian National Congress

14. 1750 – 1914 Imperialism Economic Imperialism in China
Opium Wars and Unequal Treaties
Response: Taiping and Boxer Rebellions
Economic Imperialism in Latin America
Japanese – Avoiding Imperialism
The Meiji Restoration
The US joins the fun