Take Home Test Unit 4
Industrialization
1. What is the Industrial Revolution? When was it?
2. What country did it start in and why? What changes came before it? ( a
revolution in what?)
3. What Industry did the Industrialization start in? What are some of the earliest
inventions? How were they powered?
4. How did transportation change? (what important inventions) Why was that
important/ absolutely necessary for industrialization?
5. What is urbanization? How did Industrialization cause or contribute to it?
6. What was life like for the poor working class during these times?
7. How did the middle class slowly change?
8. What are some of the positive effects of it?
9. When does it spread to other countries? Which countries does it spread to? Which
will become the three biggest Industrial powers?
10. What obstacles do some countries face to Industrialization? How does it affect
continental Europe?
11. What are some of the long term effects of it?
12. Terms: (tell me what each are)
a. Lassiez- faire
d. Communism
b. Capitalism
e. Labor unions
c. Socialism
13. Why do these different forms of government/ economy begin to gain support in
the 1800’s? (think of life of the poor)
14. How are unions treated by the govt? How did Britain start to change/ reform in
the 1800’s? How did Democracy change/ expand?
Imperialism
1. What is Imperialism?
2. Which countries went where? (Africa, Asia)
3. Why did countries go overseas? How did the justify it? (make it sound as if it was
ok)
4. Which were the only 2 countries to resist invasion? (1 in Africa, 1 in S. E. Asia)
5. What was the Berlin Conference?
6. Why did Europeans spread so easily into Africa?(pg 687)
7. What is the difference between a colony and a protectorate?
8. What is the impact that the countries have on Africa (pg 695)? Impact on SE
Asia? (pg 707)
9. What happens to the Ottoman empire (pg 697)
10. How does British control/ govt of India change in the 1800’s?
11. How does the US participate in Imperialism?(pg 708)
Latin America/ Mexico
1. Who controls Latin America until the 1800’s? What happens in the 1800’s? (give
me a brief summary of the revolutions, include the two generals)
2. What are the different social groups in Latin America? Who plays what role in the
revolutions?
3. How is Brazil’s revolution different than the rest of Latin America?
4. What are some of the long term effects of the Revolutions?
5. How does the US influence Latin America in the 1800- 1900’s? (Panama Canal)
6. Describe the Revolution in Mexico. Who leads it? What group of people? What
has to change before they are successful?
7. Describe (summary) events in Mexico in the 1800’s.
8. When is the 2nd Mexican Revolution? What happens? Who is involved?
China/ Japan
1. What was life like in both China and Japan previous to the 1800’s? (how did they
feel and react towards foreigners?
2. What was the interaction between China and Britain based on? What did the
British do?
3. What was the source of many Chinese problems? How did they try to solve them?
What was the result?
4. How did it effect China long term? What happened in China in the late 1800 and
1900’s?
5. How did Japan differ from China? How did they deal with foreign interaction?
6. How did Japan change in the 1800’s? What was the result of the change?
7. How do we start to see Japanese Imperialism?
8. Why does the balance of power shift in Japan’s favor?
Australia, Canada, Ireland
1. Compare and contrast the 3 countries. ( colonization, control, fight for self- rule)
19th century progress
1. How does technology change life? What kinds of new inventions do we see
towards the end of the 1800s?
2. How does entertainment change?
3. What are some of the new discoveries/ beliefs in science and social sciences?