1st Quarter - Final exam study guide

The Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution

1) What were 3 of the biggest changes to come out of the Enlightenment?

2) What changes during the Agricultural Revolution lead to an increase in Britain’s population?

3) On the map below, label England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, and the Republic of Ireland.

4) Describe the process of cottage industry.

5) Describe 4 uses for the steam engine.

6) Name 3 jobs that were common among the working class in Britain during the Industrial Revolution.

7) Describe the life of a child laborer during the Industrial Revolution.

8) What is urbanization, and why did it occur during the Industrial Revolution?

9) Describe 4 specific changes that Engels and Marx wanted to see in society, as described in The Communist Manifesto?

10) Describe 3 of the reforms that came out of the Industrial Revolution.

Colonialism and Imperialism

11) Draw and describe the Triangle Trade between Europe, Africa, and the Americas.  Include the goods that were transported on each section of the trade.

12) What was the purpose of the Berlin Conference of 1884?  Who was not invited to attend?

13) Describe 3 reasons why European countries wanted to take territory in Africa.

14) Describe 3 reasons how European countries were able to penetrate the interior of Africa after 1850.

Africa

15) Why did the eastern region of Biafra secede from Nigeria in 1967?

16) What group gained the most power between the beginning and end of the Nigerian Civil War?

17) Describe the actions of Shell Oil and the Nigerian military in the Ogoni region of Nigeria in the early 1990s.

18) How did half of the population of the Congo perish during Belgian imperialism?

19) Why did the United States want Patrice Lumumba to be assassinated in 1961?

20) Describe 3 reasons why the Democratic Republic of the Congo is such a poor country today.

21) What is neocolonialism?  How is it practiced today?

22) Label the following African countries: Nigeria, Democratic Republic of Congo, Angola, Rwanda, Uganda, Sudan, South Sudan, South Africa, Egypt, Libya, Algeria, Morocco, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia, Kenya, Madagascar

23) Essay question: Analyze how the needs of the Industrial Revolution in Europe fueled the era of colonialism.  Why did European countries need colonies around the world to feed the Industrial Revolution?