Copy of Imperialism

• Britain used India's large workforce (2nd largest).
• The British East India Company was set up in India in the 1600's.
• This company governed India independently of the British Crown, and even had its own army.
• The British Crown didn't get involved until it suppresed an uprising called the Sepoy Rebellion.

Objective

Describe how and why European countries

took over Southeast Asia, and the effects

on the native population.

Essential Question

What regions of Southeast Asia were

taken over by European countries?

Imperialism in Southeast Asia

Silk

Imperialism in China

Think Pair Share!!!

Why do you think Britain began bringing Opium into China?

Tea

• Gandhi set up a movement based on non-violent resistance.
• He believed non-violence was the best way to resist British imperialism.
• He was an inspiration for Martin Luther King.

What was the rumor that started the Sepoy Rebellion?

What were Indian soldiers called?

• "Be the change you want to see in the world"
• "The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself i the service of others"
• "A man is but a product of his thoughts...what he thinks, he becomes"
• "Where there is love, there is life"

Gandhi Video

Think Pair Share!!!

SPRITE!!!

What SPRITE factors can be found in the age of imperialism in China?

Famous Gandhi quotes

Mohandas Ghandhi

Porcelain

What SPRITE factors can be found in the age of imperialism in south Asia?

SPRITE!!!

• This organization demanded immediate independence from British rule.

Indian National Congress

• Sepoy - Indian soldiers working for the British East India Company.
• A rumor spread that the British were using Cow fat to coat the bullets in guns = a revolt.
• The British East India Company couldn't control the revolt, so British troops were sent to restore order.

Imperialism in China

• Indians find out what nationalism is all about, and start setting up organizations.

The Sepoy Rebellion

What was the name of the Company that Britain set up in India?

Indian Nationalism is born

• China was a self-sufficient country; it did not have a need or interest in European goods because it sold many things to Europe, like porcelain, silk, and tea.
• However, the British had an idea...

Think Pair Share!!!

Opium Poppy plant

• Britain built transportation and communication systems.
• A good school education, but only for the rich people.
• Indians were treated as second class citizens and faced discrimination (IN THEIR OWN COUNTRY!)

Chinese Nationalism

FACT #1

What happened at the Berlin Conference?

Britain controls India

What are the 3 types of imperialistic rule?

FACT #2

FACT #5

Imperialism in China

List 5 things about imperialism in China, 1 fact for each bubble, 1 sentence...COMPLETE SENTENCES!!!

• Many Chinese citizens felt like second class citizens- IN THEIR OWN COUNTRY!!!
• Nationalist groups called Boxers begin to resist foreign occupation.
• This was beginning of "The Boxer Rebellion."

FACT #3

FACT #4

The Opium War

Treaty of Nanking

Opium poppy plant

• The Opium War was fought to try to end British control of the drug, but China lost.

• The Treaty of Nanking was signed which allowed Britain to establish a sphere of influence in China.

• English merchants smuggled opium into China and created a demand for Opium...through addiction.
• China found out, they were angry...what do you think happened?

Open Door Policy

• Americans saw what was happening in China...they wanted a piece of the action too, and be able to sell their goods.
• The Open Door Policy was established to enforce an "open-door" or freedom to sell and trade in China.
• This prevented China from being colonized, but it's fate was in the hands of foreign nations.

Opium Poppy plant

Open Door Policy

Imperialism:

When one country takes over another.

Objective

Describe how and why European

countries took over South Asia.

Essential Question

What natural resources did Europeans want to take from South Asia?

Imperialism in South Asia

• European countries needed raw materials to supply their industries.
• *New markets were needed to sell European goods*
• Manifest destiny-Euros had right and duty to share progress and 'civilize' the backwards people of the world.
• Racism.

Essential Question

How did the beliefs of Imperialism

spread to non-European countries?

Objective

Describe how and why Imperialist countries took over Southeast Asia.

Imperialism in Southeast Asia, Day 2

Think Pair Share!!!

What is Imperialism?

English writer Rudyard Kipling's "White Man's Burden"

"Take up the White Man's burden-

In patience to abide,

To veil the threat of terror

And check the show of pride;

By open speech and simple,

A hundred times made plain,

To seek another's profit,

And work another's gain."

Japan becomes an imperial power

• Like China, Japan had practised isolation for a long time.

European Countries in Africa

The following countries all established colonies in Africa:

• Britain:
• France:
• Germany:
• Italy:
• Portugal:
• Belgium:
• Spain:

• Under the Meiji Restoration, Japan rapidly industrialized, and became a powerful imperialist country in just 34 years, from 1868-1902.
• However, Japan had very little natural resources inside Japan, and needed lots of steel for their expanding military...
• How do you think they got their steel?

European Superiority

Japan's modernization

Japan's isolation

• Japan took over Formosa (Taiwan) to steal it's natural resources.

Importance of South Africa

Japan takes over Taiwan

• Japan made the diffcult decision to modernize and industrialize at the expense of ancient tradition and culture.
• Japan studied the ways of Westerners, and adopted the best ones.
• Japan was smart with its finances and stayed out of debt.

Britain's lead is challenged

• *Weather is similar to Europe's weather.
• Discovery of diamonds*

What SPRITE factors can be found in the age of imperialism in Japan?

• Europeans believed the new technology developed during the Industrial Revolution proved their superiority.
• Europeans also believed that their religion and morals were the right way to live, and felt a strong sense of duty to show others "the right way."

SPRITE!!!

• After defeating Russia in 1905 (the first time an Asian country defeated a European country), Japan took over Korea.

Japan takes over Korea

• The U.S. and Spain had a war in 1898.
• After defeating the Spanish, the U.S. took over Hawaii, the Phillipines, and Guam.
• These Pacific Islands were rich in resources, and had tactical military advantages.

SPRITE!!!

Rivalries

• Japan was given an offer they couldn't refuse by the U.S....agree to trade, or get attacked.
• Fearing loss of independence, Japan conceded to trade with the U.S., and agreed to the demands of Commodore Matthew Perry.

• Colony = land belonging to Europeans
• Protectorate = land belonging to Europeans, but native people allowed to run it.
• Sphere of influence = land belonging to native people, but administered by Europeans.

What SPRITE factors can be found in the age of imperialism in Africa?

Three types of Imperialistic rule

Japan's isolation

The Pacific Islands

• Competition among European nations for territories was strong.
• Colonies=power, prestige...everyone's doing it.

• Up until the late 1800's, Britain was the most powerful nation in the world.
• Britain had few natural resources, and desperately needed new resources for their factories.
• *Germany and America began to challenge Britain for economic power*

"Scramble for Africa"

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• Competition for colonies in Africa was so fierce that European countries feared war.

Berlin Conference

• A meeting in Berlin in 1884 was called to settle land disputes between Europeans. (No African rulers were invited)

• Europeans agreed that any Euro country could claim land by sending troops to occupy that area.

Think Pair Share!!!

What two countries were behind Britain?

Which country was in the lead?

Imperialism Video

By the 1900's, only two countries remained free from colonial rule:

• Liberia - A country set up by former U.S. slaves with American support.
• Ethiopia - Maintained its independence by defeating Italy at Battle of Adwa. Benefited from its mountainous geography, strategic position between three major colonial powers and its own strong leader.

Africa carved up and divided

Africa became a continent of colonies

• *Border lines were drawn without regard to the native cultures*

East Africa

North Africa

Central Africa

South Africa

Draw these five bubbles, and label them according to each area conquered by European countries.

West Africa

Objective

Describe how European countries took over Africa to exploit it's natural resources.

Essential Question

How and why did Europeans

take over Africa?

Age of Imperialism

1875 - 1914