Imbalance in Trade

Warm Up: Set-up for Cornell Notes Pg. 143-144 Title: Left Side Right Side Outline: I. A. 1. a. Key Words, Main Ideas, Questions you could see on Test.

I. Indigo Indigo Crop Used as a dye on cloth Indians forced to grow it. a. Beaten and ruthlessly forced to cultivate crop. b. High taxes on land so Indians would need to grow cash crops only Sold at a low price or given as rent to the British. Crop leaves the land infertile bare forever.

B. Riots Against British 1. Riots occurred throughout the late 1800s in villages and farms. 2. Indians would lose because they did not have wide scale support.

C. Famine A. Causes: 1. High taxes (50%-100% of the price of the crop) and emphasis on growing only cash crop. 2. Farming of rice, wheat, etc. almost ignored. a. Wheat that was grown was sold to the British to pay taxes and sent to England to improve English diet. 3. The Indians didn’t have any edible crops and starved (especially during the droughts).

Great Britain factories 1 2 India 3 4 cotton

1 2 India 3 4 cotton Great Britain factories British colonize India and force cotton be grown by farmers.

2. Cotton is given to English and sent back to England 1 2 India 3 4 cotton Great Britain factories

Great Britain factories 3. Cotton is turned into cloth in English mills and then sold to the Indians. 1 2 India 3 4 cotton

Great Britain factories 1 2 India 3 4 cotton 4. Indians give the British money for the cloth, making British merchants and factory owners rich and the Indian subcontinent poorer than ever before. 1 2 India 3 4 cotton Great Britain factories