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1. NVC

2. Warm-Up: Thesis Writing

3. Wrapping up Imperialism: Lasting effects

Essential Question: What were the lasting effects of Imperialism?Homework: studying for Test Friday

Warm-Up: Thesis Practice

• Write a thesis answering the essential question below

• How did the British and Indians treat each other during the Sepoy Mutiny?

• “The British and Indians treated each other ________ during the Sepoy Mutiny because _____________”

British Imperialism in India

“The Devil’s Wind” • 1857 Sepoy Mutiny crushed by British

• 1858 Raj begins: British government takes direct control of India– Period of racial tension

and conflicts between Indians and British

Effects of Imperialism

Positive Effects• New technology leads to

modernization • Build new schools and

hospitals to help with education and sanitation

• Abolish slavery and end local warfare

Negative Effect• Natives lose control of their

land and natural resources• Millions die from war,

disease, and famine• Loss of traditional cultures• Racial discrimination and

inequality• Loss of self-sufficiency and

self-government

Resisting Imperialism• Rise of Nationalism in

India c.1885– 1905 India calling for

Independece

• British tighten their grip– 1919 Amritsar Massacre

British slaughter peaceful protesters

– “They would have all come back and laughed at me, and I should have made what I considered a fool of myself.”—General Dyer

Mahatma Ghandi• Mahatma Ghandi: leader of

Indian Nationalist movement c. 1914

• Nonviolent Civil Disobedience– nonviolent protest and peaceful

refusal to obey British rule– “Independence will never be

ours by force of arms. Brute-force is not natural to the Indian people. We will have, therefore, to rely wholly on soul-force. You must not consider that violence is necessary at any stage for reaching our goal.”—Ghandi

– 1947 British rule in India ends

“You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.”-- Ghandi

Nationalism in Germany

• c. 1815 39 German states exist– Austria is strongest– Prussia competing with

Austria to unify Germans

• Otto von Bismarck– Prime Minister and chief

advisor to King Wilhelm I of Prussia

– Realpolitik: tough power politics with no room for idealism

Bismarck Unites Germany• 1866 Bismarck provokes

Seven Weeks War with Austria– Prussia humiliates Austria

• 1870 Bismarck provokes Franco-Prussian War with France– Defeats Napoleon III and

wins last of the German states

– King Wilhelm crowned Kaiser of the Second Reich