Nation-States and the Scramble for Colonies

The Legacy of Industrialization

India: East India Company in Bengali Region:1782-1859

LO: SWBAT compare and contrast select Bengali worker’s point of

View concerning indigo production with that of the select British

Industrialists? Aim: How would you compare and contrast the Bengali and

British points of view of indigo production? Do now: 1.What is indigo, and why has it been such a profitable produce? 2. Predict an answer to the Aim

Timeline: read and review: handout

Side A: Read documents 4 and 6. Answer questions Side B: Read documents 5 and 6. Answer questions

Side C: Read and answer document 7 together. Compare and contrast the different intepretations. Why is there a difference?

Point of view: Bengali workers

Perspectives: Begali

Perspectives: Bristish Capitalists

Perspectives: British Industrialists

Excerpt from “Nil Darpan” (“The Indigo Planting Mirror”), a satirical Bengali play,1861Read play together/reviewQuestions together: why might

colonial oppression lead to

Many oppressed becoming the

oppressors?Summary: Answer aim.

Case Study: China and the West

LO: SWBAT predict how China would challengechallenge British colonial strength during the 19th Century, and compare their responses to the actual historical events.

Aim: How did the Chinese heads of state and citizenry challenge British imperial designs on China?

Do Now: Explain why China avoided contact with outsiders. Do you think this was wise policy? Explain your conclusions.

China under the Qing: Agricultural Economy (11th C) Chinese trade with Portuguese/Spanish: (17th C): Maize, peanuts, sweet

potatoes from Americas: fed 300,000,000 people Degree of Self Sufficiency British: Clocks, gadgets, opium Problems?: Predict the response Qing Emperor.

Prediction: Write a letter to “The Barbarian Queen Victoria of England.”

Read actual letter: http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/core9/p

halsall/texts/com-lin.htmlCopy quotes/paraphrase: what is similar. Highlight new ideas: write new ideas, and

what they are in common language

Review: conclusions

Compare and contrast: Evaluate emperor’s response. How effective do you think it will be?

The Citizens Response: Foreign Pressures:

LO: SWBAT explain the different responses to colonial imperialism during the 19th and 20th Centuries.

Aim: How did the Chinese respond to the Western colonial presence during the 19th and 20th Centuries?

Do Now: 1.Take out your homework assignments. Answer: What reasons did the Chinese have to challenge Western imperialism?

Domestic Responses: Compare and contrast your responses to what really happened: the Mandate of Heaven?Group I: Read “Taiping Rebellion: pp. 584-

585. Group II: Read “Failure of the Late

Manzhou Restoration” (585)Group III: Read about the Boxers:

“Chinese Disintegration after 1895.”Group IV: Read about Sun-Yat Sen/May

4th Movement (1866-1925): “The Chinese Republic.”

Taiping Rebellion/Self Strengthening Movement: 1870’s

Summary

Answer the Aim

Boxer Rebellion: 1900

Sun Yat-Sen: Modernization and the Chinese Republic/May 4th Movement

Opium Wars: 1839-1842British East India Company in ChinaI. 18th Century trade: OpiumII. Public Health CrisisIII . Response from

The Opium Wars: 1840-1842

British East India Company-China: 18th C

Belgium in the Congo: End of the 19th C

Aim: Why was the Congo’s involvement in the Congo considered by many scholars to be “the most horrid example of all?”

LO: SWBAT discuss why the Congo’s involvement in the Congo considered by many scholars to be “the most horrid example of all?”

Do Now: Read Document 3,4 : What does this tell you about Cecil Rhodes and King Leopold?

Great Britain : South Africa1815: Congress of Vienna

Aim:How did the British and the Boers rule South Africa?

LO:SWBAT explain how the British and Boers ruled South Africa

Do Now: Take out homework #38.a. Why are diamonds and gold so profitable? b. Define “apartheid.” Can you think of any modern-day and/or historical examples of the practice?

Natural Resources: do now-hmk review

Precious StonesBoer-British War:

Boer War:1899-1902: homework review

British Victory: 1902Boer Rule: Legacies: http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.

do?bcpid=1184539009&bclid=1213891215&bctid=1213938699

http://www.history.com/video.do?name=culture&bcpid=1676043212&bclid=1685979171&bctid=1628125938

Video:

Take notes: Write down chart:

Scene/Image: Your

commentary/connections

Cecil Rhodes: British Explorer

Cecil Rhodes: “Europeanization of Africa”

British Capitalist-ExplorerQuest for Mineral Wealth and Industrial

DevelopmentContact with Leopold II

King Leopold II: The Most Horrid Crimes of All?

Late 19th Century: Quest for “A piece of the African cake.”

“Rule from afar.”“Rescue from Arab slavers/Civilizing

Mission.Belgium: Quest for Capital, Prestige

Industrialization and the Quest for Raw Materials and Markets: 16th-20th Centuries

Participation of African Government

Powerful African ArmiesAchievements: Mali, Songhai, GhanaWell-established Trade Networks: Gold,

IvorySlave Trade: Mutual Benefits. Case Study:

King of Dahomey.Pre-Racist Ideologies

Summary Exercise

Do you agree with Kipling’s point of view?

Explain.

Answer the Aim: notebooks

The White Man’s Burden

LO: SWBAT understand how “The White Man’s Burden” thesis justified the practice of colonialism.

Aim: How did imperial nations justify their presence in African, American, and Asian regions?

Do Now: Agree or disagree: The Iraq War was justified because we brought democracy to this nation.

Missionaries and Mercenaries

What do you think “White Man’s Burden” means?

Predict what Rudyard Kipling’s poem is about.

Read and answer: 1. which of your predictions were correct? 2. Highlight two quotes. Margins: write your interpretation.

White Man’s Burden:Rudyard Kipling

Take up the White Man's burden--Send forth the best ye breed--Go bind your sons to exileTo serve your captives' need;To wait in heavy harness,On fluttered folk and wild--Your new-caught, sullen peoples,Half-devil and half-child.

Take up the White Man's burden--In patience to abide,To veil the threat of terrorAnd check the show of pride;By open speech and simple,An hundred times made plainTo seek another's profit,And work another's gain.

Take up the White Man's burden--The savage wars of peace--Fill full the mouth of FamineAnd bid the sickness cease;And when your goal is nearestThe end for others sought,Watch sloth and heathen FollyBring all your hopes to nought.

Take up the White Man's burden--No tawdry rule of kings,But toil of serf and sweeper--The tale of common things.The ports ye shall not enter,The roads ye shall not tread,Go mark them with your living,And mark them with your dead.

Take up the White Man's burden--And reap his old reward:The blame of those ye better,The hate of those ye guard--The cry of hosts ye humour(Ah, slowly!) toward the light:--"Why brought he us from bondage,Our loved Egyptian night?"

Take up the White Man's burden--Ye dare not stoop to less--Nor call too loud on FreedomTo cloke your weariness;By all ye cry or whisper,By all ye leave or do,The silent, sullen peoplesShall weigh your gods and you.

Take up the White Man's burden--Have done with childish days--The lightly proferred laurel,The easy, ungrudged praise.Comes now, to search your manhoodThrough all the thankless yearsCold, edged with dear-bought wisdom,The judgment of your peers!

Brown Man’s Burden: The Brown Man's Burden By Henry Labouchère Truth (London); reprinted in Literary Digest 18 (Feb. 25, 1899). Pile on the brown man's burden

To gratify your greed; Go, clear away the "niggers"

Who progress would impede; Be very stern, for truly

'Tis useless to be mild With new-caught, sullen peoples,

Half devil and half child.   Pile on the brown man's burden;

And, if ye rouse his hate, Meet his old-fashioned reasons

With Maxims up to date. With shells and dumdum bullets

A hundred times made plain The brown man's loss must ever

Imply the white man's gain.   Pile on the brown man's burden,

compel him to be free; Let all your manifestoes

Reek with philanthropy. And if with heathen folly

He dares your will dispute, Then, in the name of freedom,

Don't hesitate to shoot.   Pile on the brown man's burden,

And if his cry be sore, That surely need not irk you--

Ye've driven slaves before. Seize on his ports and pastures,

The fields his people tread; Go make from them your living,

And mark them with his dead.   Pile on the brown man's burden,

And through the world proclaim That ye are Freedom's agent--

There's no more paying game! And, should your own past history

Straight in your teeth be thrown, Retort that independence

Is good for whites alone.

Justification

Great Britain: Post Industrialization:Advanced

Technology“Enlighten the Savage”Racism

Do Now: put in chronological orderAIM: Why did certain natural resources

attract Europe to Africa? The Agricultural Revolution led to

farming innovations. Population Boom Factory Boom in England New Technological Innovations Shortage of raw materials Colonialism: Nations Scramble for

Colonies.

The Scramble for Asia: 15-20th Centuries

Homework Review

What were the causes of 19th and 20th Century colonialism?

Research

In pairs: go to https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/cf.html

Click on African countries. Use the Atlases as a resource.

What resources do these countries have? Why would you be interested in these natural resources?

Maps: Check for accuracy/Take note of country whom colonized the region.

Group Work Review

Notes:Why would these resources be considered

so valuable?Resource: value