Nationalism and Imperialism
Key Terms:
Nationalism Conservatism Liberalism Principle of Legitimacy Imperialism Direct Rule Indirect Rule Colony Protectorate Sphere of Influence Berlin Conference colonization |
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NATIONALISM
APPLICATION: MAP EXERCISE- UNIFICATION OF ITALY
Maximilien Robespierre promised to usher a fairer, more representative form of government to the French people. What they got was a reign of terror that saw thousands facing the horror of the guillotine.
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Otto Von Bismarck
APPLICATION: Nationalism in Europe Timeline Activity
Forces For Change PowerPoint
Application: Congress of Vienna Map Activity
Application: Revolutions of 1848 Chart
Conditions of the Working Class in England in 1844
"Every great town has one or more slum areas where the workers struggle through life as best they can out of sight of the more fortunate classes of society. The slums... are generally unplanned wildernesses of one- or two- storied houses. Wherever possible these have cellars which are also used as dwellings. The streets are usually unpaved, full of holes, filthy and strewn with refuse. Since they have neither gutters nor drains, the refuse accumulates in the stagnant, stinking puddles. The view of Manchester is quite Typical. The main river is narrow, coal-black and full of stinking filth and rubbish which it deposits on its bank... One walks along a very rough path on the river bank to reach a chaotic group of little, one-story, one-room cabins...In front of the doors, filth and garbage abounded..."
Create a list of events that correspond with the documents on either German unification or Italian unification that you studied in this lesson. Include the significance of each document, or the event it describes. In your opinion, what was the most decisive event that led to German unification? Explain your point of view.
Forces For Change PowerPoint
Application: Congress of Vienna Map Activity
Application: Revolutions of 1848 Chart
Conditions of the Working Class in England in 1844
"Every great town has one or more slum areas where the workers struggle through life as best they can out of sight of the more fortunate classes of society. The slums... are generally unplanned wildernesses of one- or two- storied houses. Wherever possible these have cellars which are also used as dwellings. The streets are usually unpaved, full of holes, filthy and strewn with refuse. Since they have neither gutters nor drains, the refuse accumulates in the stagnant, stinking puddles. The view of Manchester is quite Typical. The main river is narrow, coal-black and full of stinking filth and rubbish which it deposits on its bank... One walks along a very rough path on the river bank to reach a chaotic group of little, one-story, one-room cabins...In front of the doors, filth and garbage abounded..."
- Describe what the city looks like.
- What does the author mean by "Manchester is quite typical"?
Create a list of events that correspond with the documents on either German unification or Italian unification that you studied in this lesson. Include the significance of each document, or the event it describes. In your opinion, what was the most decisive event that led to German unification? Explain your point of view.
IMPERIALISMBerlin Conference |
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On February 26th, 1885, at Chancellor Otto von Bismarck's official residence in Berlin, the "Berlin Conference on Africa" came to a successful conclusion. After three months of negotiations amongst the leading diplomats from all the major European powers (and the US), the "General Act of the Berlin Conference" had been agreed. And a large part of Africa's subsequent fate had been set in motion.
For at a time when an estimated 80% of Africa remained under traditional and local control, the purpose of the Berlin Conference had been for the Great Powers to establish rules amongst themselves for the colonization of Africa and the exploitation of Africa's resources. Including the division of territory, the drawing of maps, and the establishment of Congo -- as a personal possession of the Belgian King. Not surprisingly, no Africans had been invited to the Conference.
For at a time when an estimated 80% of Africa remained under traditional and local control, the purpose of the Berlin Conference had been for the Great Powers to establish rules amongst themselves for the colonization of Africa and the exploitation of Africa's resources. Including the division of territory, the drawing of maps, and the establishment of Congo -- as a personal possession of the Belgian King. Not surprisingly, no Africans had been invited to the Conference.
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Using actual transcripts taken down at the time, BERLIN 1885: THE DIVISION OF AFRICA combines reenactments of the Conference proceedings and previously unexplored archival materials, with the insights of historians and scholars from six nations, to discuss the politics, implications, and legacy of the first international conference about Africa.
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http://www.houlehistory.com/imperialism.html
http://www.houlehistory.com/imperialism.html
Analyzing Sources
Using your handout analyze the following two pictures.
'The Real Trouble Will Come With The Wake,"
Puck Cartoon: Political cartoon with the caption 'The Real Trouble Will Come With The Wake,' which appeared in Puck magazine. The cartoon Animal features personifications of Russia, England, Germany, Austria, Italy, France, Japan fighting over body of China (dragon); the US (eagle) looks on. USA, 15 August 1900. (Photo by Fotosearch/Getty Images).
Puck Cartoon: Political cartoon with the caption 'The Real Trouble Will Come With The Wake,' which appeared in Puck magazine. The cartoon Animal features personifications of Russia, England, Germany, Austria, Italy, France, Japan fighting over body of China (dragon); the US (eagle) looks on. USA, 15 August 1900. (Photo by Fotosearch/Getty Images).
Now lets use our Thinking Strategies on your own take a look at each of the political cartoons in the slide deck. Take a moment to Determine Importance, Monitor for Meaning, Analyze, and Synthesize what you are looking upon. Now answer make an Inference to answer the following questions.
- What is being depicted?
- What is the image saying about imperialism?
- Who is represented in the artwork?
- Make an inference about what the political cartoon implies about those represented?
- Who was/is the audience?
- What do you infer in impact or reaction of the audience was?
Application: Develop a political cartoon for either the Austria-Hungarian Empire or the collapse of the Ottoman Empire. Include a description of your cartoon and why it relates to Nationalism.
Read and Discuss "Slum Dog Child Stars Miss Out on Millions.
Read and Discuss "Slum Dog Child Stars Miss Out on Millions.
King Leopold's Ghost
In the 1880s, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium seized for himself the vast and mostly unexplored territory surrounding the Congo River. Carrying out a genocidal plundering of the Congo, he looted its rubber, brutalized its people, and ultimately slashed its population by ten million—all the while shrewdly cultivating his reputation as a great humanitarian. Heroic efforts to expose these crimes eventually led to the first great human rights movement of the twentieth century, in which everyone from Mark Twain to the Archbishop of Canterbury participated. King Leopold's Ghost is the haunting account of a megalomaniac of monstrous proportions, a man as cunning, charming, and cruel as any of the great Shakespearean villains. It is also the deeply moving portrait of those who fought Leopold: a brave handful of missionaries, travelers, and young idealists who went to Africa for work or adventure and unexpectedly found themselves witnesses to a holocaust. Adam Hochschild brings this largely untold story alive with the wit and skill of a Barbara Tuchman. Like her, he knows that history often provides a far richer cast of characters than any novelist could invent. Chief among them is Edmund Morel, a young British shipping agent who went on to lead the international crusade against Leopold. Another hero of this tale, the Irish patriot Roger Casement, ended his life on a London gallows. Two courageous black Americans, George Washington Williams and William Sheppard, risked much to bring evidence of the Congo atrocities to the outside world. Sailing into the middle of the story was a young Congo River steamboat officer named Joseph Conrad. And looming above them all, the duplicitous billionaire King Leopold II. With great power and compassion, King Leopold's Ghost will brand the tragedy of the Congo—too long forgotten—onto the conscience of the West.
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The story of the Congo is one of appalling brutality. The narrative follows the troubled history of the region from King Leopold II of Belgium's avaricious economic exploitation of the country, tracing the impact of this horrifying and often-forgotten colonial crime through to the modern day, this brutally honest doc is a heart-rending tale of a rich country destroyed by imperial greed. |
Leopold II of Belgium: The Biggest Coverup In European History
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The White Man's Burden by Rudyard Kipling
“The White Man’s Burden”: Kipling’s Hymn to U.S. ImperialismIn February 1899, British novelist and poet Rudyard Kipling wrote a poem entitled “The White Man’s Burden: The United States and The Philippine Islands.” In this poem, Kipling urged the U.S. to take up the “burden” of empire, as had Britain and other European nations. Published in the February, 1899 issue of McClure’s Magazine, the poem coincided with the beginning of the Philippine-American War and U.S. Senate ratification of the treaty that placed Puerto Rico, Guam, Cuba, and the Philippines under American control. Theodore Roosevelt, soon to become vice-president and then president, copied the poem and sent it to his friend, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, commenting that it was “rather poor poetry, but good sense from the expansion point of view.” Not everyone was as favorably impressed as Roosevelt. The racialized notion of the “White Man’s burden” became a euphemism for imperialism, and many anti-imperialists couched their opposition in reaction to the phrase.
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