Textbook Questions
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Textbook Page 158 – 159
Industrial Revolution
Britain
1. Shift from making goods by hand tools to making goods
by machinery
2. Where did the Industrial Revolution begin?
Technology Changes Industry
3. What industry was the first to change during the
industrial revolution?
4. How did transportation change?
Ships and trains carried raw materials to factories. They
brought finished goods to distant markets.
5. How did this affect trade?
Industry Changes Landscapes
6. What are entrepreneurs?
7. Where were businesses started?
8. What problems were created as a
result of the rapid growth in industrial
towns?
(List 6 problems)
Trade Grows
Workers in factories produced more goods than were
needed.
European colonies in Africa and Asia
Raw materials for European manufacturers
Positive Effects
12. What were the positive effects of the Industrial Age?
9. Why did industrialized nations need new places to sell
products?
10. Where were these new markets?
11. What else did the colonies provide for the European
manufacturers?
Textbook Pages 160- 161: The Great War: World War I (WWI)
13. What were the years WWI was fought?
1914 - 1918
14. List the 4 main causes of
Nationalism – devotion to one’s nation or people
Imperialism – Extend their empires by seizing territory to add to their colonies in
Africa and Asia
WWI and explain
each
one.
Militarism – Building up military powers and adopting warlike attitudes.
Alliances – European countries had agreed to defend one another from attack.
A Serbian nationalist killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand
of Austria-Hungary.
Austria – Hugary declared war on Serbia.
Russian Revolution – Russia withdrew from war
United States entered WWI.
Germany sought a truce and WWI ended.
15. What happened on June 1914?
16. What happened as a result of this?
17. What 2 events happened in 1917?
18. What happened on November 11, 1918?
SS6H6 Questions (Use the information on the yellow sheet to answer these questions.)
Several European countries divided the continent of Africa
among themselves.
Factories in Europe required raw materials to manufacture
finished products.
Europeans looked for new sources of raw materials and
markets for their goods.
1. In the 19th century what European
countries wanted more overseas land?
2. What was the Scramble for Africa?
3. List 2 ways economics played a role in
the colonization of Africa.
4. What resources did the Europeans
want?
5. How did politics lead to colonization of
Africa?
European nations showed national pride by competing for
colonies in Africa. Colonies in Africa and Asia made
Europeans feel pride in their country.
They saw it as a change from Europe as a trading partner to
6. How did Asia territories see the
Europe as a conqueror.
European scramble for land in Asia?
Great Britain
7. Who took control of India?
8. Who took control of Southeast Asia including Vietnam?
9. What other lands did Britain fight for control?
Russia and France
Britain
Russia
Austria-Hungary
Ottoman Empire
France
United States
Germany
Bulgaria
10. What is the love of one’s country?
11. What is using strong armies and threats of war?
12. In 1914, on whom did Germany declare war?
13. Which main countries made up the Allied Powers?
14. Which main countries made up the Central Powers?