Imperialism expands to India Unit Enduring Understandings 1. The motives of competition and profit often prompt people and groups to expand into new areas of opportunity. 2. Changes in technology and exchange during the 18 th and 19 th centuries led to the social and economic changes around the world that are still relevant today. 3. Technology, transportation and communication enabled European nations to become the dominant world powers in the 19 th century. 4. Centers of global economic and political power shift over time. 5. Technology and industrial advancement can alter existing social and economic systems. Agenda – in what ways was imperialism in East Asia like that in the other regions of the world? What do you think will happen in the 20 th Century as Western enlightenment ideas reach the colonies controlled by Europe and the US? 1.Questions from homework? 2.Complete p31 3.Create a chart like this 4.then write at least two paragraphs that answer the agenda question with specific examples and explanations for why you concluded as you did. 5.Work on homework – Asia map? Country/regionReasons for imperialism Method of conquest/control Main productseffects Africa Mid-East India Asia

Dutch East India Company Major Products – coffee, tin, rubber, cocoa, tropical fruits Lands Claimed – Indonesia, Java, Sumatra, Borneo, Celebes, the Moluccas Impact of Colonization – rigid class structure with the natives on the bottom and the Dutch settlers at the top British Immigration policy – to fill need for labor in mines and on plantations, Chinese immigrants were brought in. Lands Claimed – Singapore, Malaysia, Burma Impact of Colonization – British stayed in control, but Chinese soon outnumbered native Malays, leading to ethnic conflict that still exists today Country was modernized and grew economically

France Method of management – direct control with Frenchmen at the top positions of every institution – use of military force when “necessary” Lands Claimed - Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia Impact of Colonization – opposed local industries and required cash crops like rubber and rice to be grown on French-owned big plantations. Significant mistreatment of locals including food shortages. Brutality, mistreatment and racism (from the paternalistic French attitude) built anger and resentment that could not be off-set by French-built schools and roads. Sets the stage for future conflict and war United States Method of management– businessmen ran the colony after deposing traditional queen. Then the new “republic” government, headed by Dole, “asked” to be annexed by the US to become part of the US Lands Claimed –Philippines, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Guam, Hawai’i Impact of Colonization – Hawai’i lost its independence and traditional queen, saw immigration of Portuguese, Chinese and Japanese workers, education, transportation and communication were modernized.