1. How did industrial innovations increase production efficiency and what effect did this have on consumer goods?

2. What does real wage data reveal about standards of living between 1819 and 1852, and what complications existed?

1. How did overproduction in industrialized economies lead to increased imperialism in the 19th century?

2. What natural resources did industrial economies require and where did they obtain them?

3. How did technological advances from the Industrial Revolution enable Western dominance over Africa, Asia, and China?

4. What economic consequences did participation in the world economy have for dependent colonial economies?

1. What independence movements occurred in the late 1700s and early 1800s, and what pattern did they establish?

2. How did colonized peoples resist Westernization, and what were the outcomes of these resistance movements?

3. How did early independence movements and rebellions relate to the rise of nationalism in the post-World War II period?

1. What patterns of migration resulted from modern imperialism and industrial development?

2. What were indentured laborers and where did they come from and work?

3. How did immigration and competition for jobs affect working-class attitudes toward immigrants in industrial economies?

1. What argument did J. A. Hobson make about the relationship between capitalism and imperialism?

2. How did Vladimir Lenin's analysis of imperialism differ from Hobson's proposed solutions?

1. What is world-systems theory and how did Immanuel Wallerstein define the core and periphery?

2. How did Wallerstein explain the relationship between colonialism and the incorporation of peripheral states into the world economy?

3. What did Wallerstein mean by describing the world-system as dynamic, and what example did he provide?