Industrial Revolution & Imperialism Review Guide
Industrial Revolution (Chapter 25)
1. Define Industrialization.
2. What were enclosures?
3. What were some of the agricultural
inventions that emerged at this time?
4. How did the Agricultural Revolution
contribute to the Industrial
Revolution?
5. Why did the I.R. begin in England/Great Britain? Explain SEVERAL reasons.
6. What are the factors of production?
What three things are factors?
7. Which industry led
Industrialization?
8. Why did factories develop and what
did they require?
9. Why was the steam engine
important?
10. What advances in water and land
transportation emerged?
11. What were the main effects of the
railroad?
12. Define urbanization & describe
what cities were like.
13. Describe the bourgeoisie or
“middle class” in the I.R.
14. What were living and working
conditions like for the working class?
15. What were the positive effects of
industrialization?
16. What were the negative effects of
industrialization?
17. What were the overall effects of
industrialization?
18. What was Britain’s attitude
towards the spread of
industrialization?
19. How did Industrialization spread
to the U.S.?
20. What other countries
industrialized?
21. What factors prevented countries
from industrializing?
22. How did industrialization lead to a
growth in global inequality?
23. How did industrialization lead to
imperialism?
24. What were unions, what were
their goals, and how did they achieve
these goals?
25. What social reforms were made?
26. Define capitalism.
27. Define “laissez-faire” capitalism.
28. What work did Adam Smith write?
29. What were Adam Smith’s natural
laws of economics?
What economic philosophy did he
support?
30. What did Thomas Malthus argue?
31. What did David Ricardo argue?
What economic philosophy did he
support?
What economic philosophy did he
support?
33. What did Jeremy Bentham
believe?
34. What did John Stuart Mill believe?
What economic philosophy did he
support?
32. Define utilitarianism.
35. What is Robert Owen known for?
What economic philosophy did he
support?
36. Define socialism.
37. Who wrote the Communist
Manifesto?
38. What generally was stated in the
Communist Manifesto? What would
eventually happen?
39. Who are the proletariat?
40. Karl Marx’s form of socialism is
known as…..?
41. What other countries’
governments were influenced by the
Communist Manifesto?
What is communism?
Imperialism (Chapter 27, Chapter 28.1.2)
1. Define imperialism.
2. What was Africa like before
European control?
3. How did the I.R. lead to
Imperialism?
4. What political factors contributed
to Imperialism?
5. What was Social Darwinism?
6. What were the religious motives for
Imperialism?
7. What factors promoted Imperialism
in Africa?
8. What was the Berlin Conference?
9. Who were the Zulu? What was the
outcome of the clash with the British?
10. Who were Boers? What was the
outcome of the Boer War?
11. What African countries
successfully resisted Imperialism?
Why?
12. What were positive effects of
Imperialism?
13. What were negative effects of
Imperialism?
14. An imperialized region that ha sits
own internal gov’t but is under the
authority of a foreign power is a(n)….?
15. A region in which a foreign power
claims exclusive trading rights is
known as a(n)….?
16. ____________________________
is when an independent, less
developed country is controlled by
private business investments.
17. An imperialized nation that is
governed internally by a foreign
power is known as a(n)….?
18. Explain the difference between
direct and indirect control?
19. Prior to the beginning of the 19th
century, how did the British govern
India?
20. What were sepoys?
21. Why was India considered the
brightest “jewel in the crown” for
England?
22. How did the British prevent the
Indian economy from operating on its
own? Be specific.
23. List the goods produced in India
that were traded elsewhere by the
British.
24. What were the NEGATIVE impacts
of colonialism for India?
25. What were the POSITIVE impacts
of colonialism for India?
26. What caused the Sepoy Mutiny,
and what was the result?
27. What was the Raj?
28. What effect did the Sepoy Mutiny
have on the relationship between the
British and Indians?
29. How did Ram Mohun Roy want
India to modernize and why?
30. Why did nationalist feelings start
to surface in India?
31. Name two nationalist groups that
developed.
32. How did the British initially divide
the province of Bengal and what
impact did this have?
33. Why was China able to reject
trade offers from the West?
34. What industries and products
were successful in China?
35. What disagreement caused the
Opium War and what was its result?
36. What were extraterritorial rights
and who were they granted to?
37. What was the goal of the Taiping
Rebellion and what was the outcome?
38. Why did the U.S. declare an Open
Door Policy with China and what did
this policy state?
39. What caused the Boxer Rebellion
and what was its result?
40. What government did Dowager
Empress model China after?
41. Describe society under Japan’s
Tokugawa shogunate.
42. What was stated in the Treaty of
Kanagawa?
43. What does Meiji mean?
44. How did Japan modernize during the Meiji era?
45. Why did Japan become
imperialistic?
46. Why did Japan go to war with
China (Sino-Japanese War) and what
was the outcome?
48. How did Japan treat Koreans after
it annexed their country?
47. What led to the Russo-Japanese
War and what was the result?