Review Chart #3

1. Review # 8:
Industrial Revolution -> New Imperialism
production of goods shifted from hand 
machine-made, human/animal  steam power,
domestic industry factory

2. Causes
•Agrarian Revolution =
more food!
•Population explosion
•Began in Great Britain
o Land (rivers, island)
o Labor (people to
work)
o Capital ($ &
investment)
Effects
•New Social Class
Structure
MIDDLE CLASS
•Urbanization
•Bad working
conditions
• new legislation
(Sadler Report),
unions
•Better transportation
•Higher standard of
living

3. Competing Economic Theories
Capitalism
(AKA: Market Economy, Free
Market, Private Enterprise)
• Adam Smith, Wealth of
Nations
• Cash for the private
individual
• Consumer determines supply
and demand
• Competition
• Classes based on wealth
• Laissez Faire – government is
NOT involved
Socialism
(AKA: Marxism, communism,
state-run)
•Karl Marx, Communist
Manifesto
•Struggle: violent revolution
of the proletariat to
overthrow bourgeoisie
•State: owns everything for
benefit of society
•Share wealth & power

4. The New Imperialism
What is imperialism?
•Domination by one country of
the political, economic, or
cultural life of another country
•1800s – early 1900s

5. The New Imperialism
Causes
Economic
Political
Social
Social Darwinism
White Man’s Burden
• Industrial Revolution =
• Need for raw materials and New Markets
• Power and security of the empire
• Rise of Nationalism
• Competition between Europeans
natural for stronger nations to dominate weaker nations
white imperialists have a moral duty to “help” less developed areas

6. The New Imperialism
Effects
India
Africa
China
•British East India Company controls trade and 3/5s of India
•Builds new transportation, communication, implements
mercantilism
•Sepoy Mutiny: revolt against the British/Westerners
•Berlin Conference (1884): European powers divide up Africa
based on access to resources ethnic conflict
•Scramble for Africa  Congolese Genocide
•Zulus resist imperialism
•Opium War  very unequal Treaty of Nanjing China open ports
and loses Hong Kong
•Foreigners cut China into Spheres of Influence
•Taiping Rebellion (anti-Qing) and BOXER REBELLION (ANTI-WEST)

7. Irish Potato Famine
•Strict British policy
over Ireland +
•Potato blight =
•Mass migration of
Irish to North America
On a
Random
Note…