UNIT 6: OVERVIEW

 

UNIT 6: Consequences of Industrialization

 

6.1 – Rationale for Imperialism

Learning Objective A: Explain how ideologies contributed to the development of imperialism from 1750 to 1900.

KC-5.2.III - A range of cultural, religious, and racial ideologies were used to justify imperialism, including Social Darwinism, nationalism, the concept of the civilizing mission, and the desire to religiously convert indigenous populations.

 

6.2 – State Expansion

Learning Objective B: Compare processes by which state power shifted in various parts of the world from 1750 to 1900.

KC-5.2. I. A - Some states with existing colonies strengthened their control over those colonies and in some cases assumed direct control over colonies previously held by non- state entities.

KC-5.2.I.C - Many European states used both warfare and diplomacy to expand their empires in Africa.

Illustrative Example: “Shift from the private ownership of the Congo by King Leopold II to the Belgium government” and “Belgium in the Congo”

 

6.3 Indigenous Responses to State Expansion

Learning Objective C: Explain how and why internal and external factors have influenced the process of state building from 1750 to 1900.

KC-5.3.III.D - Increasing questions about political authority and growing nationalism contributed to anticolonial movements

KC-5.2.II.C - Anti-imperial resistance took various forms, including direct resistance within empires and the creation of new states on the peripheries.

KC-5.3.III.E - Increasing discontent with imperial rule led to rebellions, some of which were influenced by religious ideas.

 

 

 

 

6.4 Global Economic Development

Learning Objective D: Explain how various environmental factors contributed to the development of the global economy from 1750 to 1900.

KC-5.1. II. A - The need for raw materials for factories and increased food supplies for the growing population in urban centers led to the growth of export economies around the world that specialized in commercial extraction of natural resources and the production of food and industrial crops. The profits from these raw materials were used to purchase finished goods.

Illustrative Examples of Resource export economies: Cotton production in Egypt, Rubber extraction in the Amazon and the Congo basin, The palm oil trade in West Africa, The guano industries in Peru and Chile, Meat from Argentina and Uruguay, Diamonds from Africa

 

6.5 Economic Imperialism

Learning Objective E: Explain how various economic factors contributed to the development of the global economy from 1750 to 1900.

KC-5.2. I. E: Industrialized states and businesses within those states practiced economic imperialism primarily in Asia and Latin America.

KC-5.1.II.C: Trade in some commodities was organized in a way that gave merchants and companies based in Europe and the U.S. a distinct economic advantage.

 

6.6 Causes of Migration in an Interconnected World

Learning Objective G: Explain how various economic factors contributed to the development of varied patterns of migration from 1750 to 1900.

KC-5.4. II. A - Many individuals chose freely to relocate, often in search of work.

KC-5.4. II. B - The new global capitalist economy continued to rely on coerced and semi- coerced labor migration, including slavery, Chinese and Indian indentured servitude, and convict labor.

 

6.7 Effects of Migration

Learning Objective H: Explain how and why new patterns of migration affected society from 1750 to 1900.

KC-5.4.III.B - Migrants often created ethnic enclaves in different parts of the world that helped transplant their culture into new environments.

Illustrative Example - Indians in East Africa, Chinese in N. America and SE Asia.

KC-5.4.III.C - Receiving societies did not always embrace immigrants, as seen in the various degrees of ethnic and racial prejudice and the ways states attempted to regulate the increased flow of people across their borders.

Illustrative Example - Regulation of immigrants - Chinese Exclusion Act, White Australia Policies

 

6.8 Causation in the Imperial Age

Learning Objective I: Explain the relative significance of the effects of imperialism from 1750 to 1900.