The Good Stuff (essential knowledge)
Justification for Imperialism Direct/Indirect Rule New patterns of global trade
Single resourcing Gold and diamonds in S. Africa British Empire
British in India Belgian Congo
How do you rule a colony?
DIRECT RULE INDIRECT RULE
France Install a government Colony is “annexed”
into the mother country’s culture Language Religion culture
England Set up as a
protectorate or establish a local/regional government
Colony keeps it’s own culture Language of govt. still
the mother country
Checking For Understanding
On your whiteboard answer the following:1. The colony uses native language and the governor
is an educated person from that colony – name the colonizing country
2. The colony is strictly Roman Catholic, the mayor of your province is French – name the colonizing country
3. You aren’t allowed to speak your native language or educate your children in your own religion – name the colonizing country
4. You have to pay taxes to the colonizing country but you’ve never seen someone from that country in your village- name the colonizing country
Gold and Diamonds in S. Africa
Diamonds – 1867 Gold – 1886 Profitability
calculations Apartheid’s
beginnings
Checking for Understanding
On your whiteboard answer each question Biggest geographical colonial empire? Most colonies Most important trade route? What two canals fundamentally changed
trade? Who built/maintained them? Which countries emerge during this time
period as economic/trading powerhouses?
British in India – The Raj EIC takes over 1757
Battle of Plassey 1857 Indian Mutiny (sepoy
rebellion) EIC abolished 1858 – crown
assumes control 1898 Indian nationalist
movement 1947 Indian independence http://
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yXKbd5IDzU
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In return for "one piece of cloth per month to each of the undersigned chiefs, besides present of cloth in hand, they promised to freely of their own accord, for themselves and their heirs and successors for ever...give up to the said Association [set up by Leopold] the sovereignty and all sovereign and governing rights to all their territories...and to assist by labour or otherwise, any works, improvements or expeditions which the said Association shall cause at any time to be carried out in any part of these territories... All roads and waterways running through this country, the right of collecting tolls on the same, and all game, fishing, mining and forest rights, are to be the absolute property of the said Association."
Contract between Congolese Chiefs and King Leopold I of Belgium 1885
Checking for Understanding
Using this primary source, Afternoon Tea for the Working Classes: 1850
Write a thesis statement and brief essay that explains:
What does this primary source tell us about trade in nineteenth century Great Britain?