RISE OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE. VOCABULARY 1. Mercantilism- economic policy; a favorable balance of trade from colonization 2. Dominion- control or exercise.

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RISE OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE

VOCABULARY 1. Mercantilism- economic policy; a favorable balance of trade from colonization 2. Dominion- control or exercise of control 3. Protectorate- protection and partial control by a superior power

WHAT DO YOU HEAR WHEN YOU HEAR THE WORD BRITISH COLONIES?

AT THE END OF WORLD WAR I From a small island to a world power…

1. MERCANTILISM Economic policy that required nations to colonize weaker nations to obtain natural resources.

2. GLOBAL EXPANSION Trade routes needed to be protected. East India Company- monopoly on trade with India.

3. SUCCESS IN WARS Ireland- 1100’s-1600’s Treaty of Utrecht: Nova Scotia, Newfoundland; a monopoly on the slave trade in Spanish America Treaty of Paris: 1763, Seven Years’ War All of French Canada East India Company pushed France out of India Boer War, , Africa Opium Wars, , China

World War I, World War II,

4. SUPERIOR NAVAL POWER Most powerful navy in the world, 1760’s- Captain Alfred T. Mahan, “History of Sea Power…….

5. FEW RESTRICTIONS ON TRADE British monopoly on trade East India Company Dec. 31, 1600, British government gave this company permission to control all trade between Britain and India British Parliament forced the government to shut down the East India Company and rule India because of atrocities that had occurred:  Land Tax, 50% (made schools close)  Cash crops: cotton, indigo, tea, jute (less food grown)  Raw materials, (cash crops), shipped to England

 People became landless, ill fed, and illiterate.  By the late 1800’s, dissatisfaction with British brewed feelings of nationalism for Indians.