1. NCMS 7th Grade Social Studies
Mrs. Kowalewski
Imperialism: Rise of Imperialism

2. Monday, February 29, 2019 Materials: Pencil Notebooks
Turn in Take Home Test
Place agenda’s on desk
Core 2 & # Pick up Article of the Week—due Friday
Materials Manger pick up crate
Make sure Industrial Revolution papers glued in NB

3. Partner Activity: Review
Talk using a volume only your partner can hear.
Disruption. Speak only to your partner. Do not disturb other students.
Stay focused on the learning activity.
Follow the guidelines/directions modeled by the teacher.
If you need help from the teacher, raise your hand
PartIcipate--‐Each student needs to actively participate in the activity.

4. Partner Activity Word Bank Mercantilism Reasons to Explore Voltaire
What is the name of the policy used to gain wealth and power by establishing a favorable balance of trade._____.
Gold, God, Glory, Geography_______________________.
Believed in Separation of church and state and freedom of speech. ___________________

5. Laissez-faire Capitalism Industrial Revolution
Textiles
Urbanization
Great Britain
Laissez-faire Capitalism
Industrial Revolution
4. The period of history during the 1700s and 1800s when changes in the production of goods ___________________
changed from using animal/human power to using machines is called the ____________________.
5. The Industrial Revolution first began in ________________?
6. What was the first major industry in Great Britain?_________
7. What economic system resulted from the widespread growth
Of industrialism_________________
8. The movement of people from farms to the cities._________

6. NC Essential Standards
7.H.2.1
Analyze the effects of social, economic, military and political conflict among nations, regions, and groups (e.g. war, genocide, imperialism and colonization).
7.E.1.1
Explain how competition for resources affects the economic relationship among nations (e.g. colonialism, imperialism, globalization and interdependence).
7.C.1.1
Explain how culture unites and divides modern societies and regions (e.g. enslavement of various peoples, caste system, religious conflict and Social Darwinism).

7. Prior Learning

8. Industrialization
The Agricultural Revolution occurred when new ways of farming and farm machinery were used to produce crops.
FACTORY SYSTEM & INDUSTRIALIZATION
• Textile factories began first in Great Britain & then the United States.
• Resulted in factory system & mass production of goods.
• Caused rural to urban migration (moving from farms to cities)
• Workers began to desire a change from laissez faire capitalism (government is not involved
in economy) to socialism (government controls economy)
• Labor unions (organized workers) demanded reform laws.
What was the enclosure movement?
Land owners fenced in farm lands causing workers to move to cities to look for jobs.
Steam engines improved transportation

10. Urbanization Industrialization Urbanization
Problems caused by Urbanization:
Unsanitary Conditions
Diseases
Overpopulation
Fires

11. Vocabulary Imperialism Cooperate/cooperation Nationalism Interaction
Resources
Competition
Market
Traditional
Isolation
Agrarian
Alliance
racism
Mutiny
Armistice
Unify/unification
assimilation

12. Imperialism-Introduction

13. Relevance
What does this factory (industry) need to run? What does this factory (industry) need to stay in business?
FACTORS OF PRODUCTION: land, labor (employees)
RAW MATERIALS (ingredients) to make the product
MARKETS to sell finished goods

14. Essential Question?????
How did industrialism lead to imperialism in the 1800s?

15. What is imperialism??? IMPERIALISM
When one nation extends its power over another nation

16. What Sparked Imperialism? (What is the origin of imperialism?)
Industrialism--A wealth gap was created between industrialized and non-industrialized nations. Industrialized nations needed raw material and new markets to sell finished products.

17. What nations practiced Imperialism?
England
France
Germany
Spain
Belgium
Portugal
Italy
AND Eventually….United States
And Japan
Key Imperial Powers:
• EUROPEAN NATIONS
• UNITED STATES
• JAPAN

19. region centered on the islands of the tropical Pacific Ocean
Where did Europeans go????
In an effort to increase their wealth and power…
European nations rushed to
take over lands in:
Africa
Oceania
region centered on the islands of the tropical Pacific Ocean
Asia

20. Why did they want to imperialize?
The Industrial Revolution sparked Industrialized nations to look for new lands to colonize
Industrial nations wanted to imperialize for four reasons: 1
They needed markets to sell the goods that were pouring out of their factories 2
They needed access to raw materials to keep their factories running 3
Nationalism- Drive to make your country better "We’re #1!!" 4
Belief in Western Superiority

21. Western Superiority Driven by the belief in Social
Darwinism (belief that the strongest or fittest should survive and flourish in society, while the weak and unfit should be allowed to die)
• Duty of Western powers to take their superior culture to the lesser nations.

22. Rudyard Kipling’s The White Man’s Burden
became the anthem for imperialism.
It is the duty of Western powers to take their superior culture to lesser nations, despite the resistance they might encounter.

23. Why were industrialized nations able to imperialize non-industrialized nations? (Imperialism- HOW?)
Industrialized countries had ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY that weaker nations did not have.
guns
railroads
Steamships
technology
African & Asian countries didn’t have the advanced technology, making them easy (weak) targets

24. Check for Understanding
The control of one nation over the government and economy of another nation is called ________________________.
A. industrialism.
B. socialism.
C. imperialism.
D. communism.

25. Check for Understanding
How did the Industrial Revolution lead to Imperialism?
A. Nations needed to find workers to work in factories.
B. Nations were looking for raw materials and markets
C. Nations were looking for new places to settle.
D. Nations wanted to build large empires.

26. Check for Understanding
What areas of the world were a focus of imperialism?
A. Asia, South America, Canada
B. Africa, Canada, India
C. Mexico, United States
D. Asia, Africa, Oceania

27. Check for Understanding
Which of the following best explains the message is illustrated in “The White Man’s Burden”?
A. Europeans are destined to solve the world’s problems.
B. The industrial nations should take their superior culture to the non-­‐industrial nations.
C. The white race should do away with all other nations.
D. The white people of the U.S. are responsible for policing the rest of the world.