1. Brief Response
What were Imperial motives for taking control of Pacific and SE Asian lands?
Resources: rubber, tin, copra, spice
Contract labor
Preventing other imperialists taking lands: Samoa, Hawai’i

2. Canada, Australia, and New Zealand
p. 332

3. Why Canada, Australia, and New Zealand?
These lands had been heavily colonized by Whites from England.
Like the US, they began to feel a desire for self-rule and separation from Britain.
Britain treated them better than they did the American colonies.
They are independent nations now, but are still part of the British Commonwealth.

4. Canada
Confederation
A unification of states, looser than a federation like the US.
Britain’s solution to Canadian unrest was the Act of Union, in 1840.
All Canadians would be treated equally by law.

5. Canada By the mid-1800s, the territories would loosely unify: (5)
Nova Scotia
New Brunswick
Prince Edward Island
British Columbia
Upper and Lower Canada

6. Metis Canadians of mixed White and indigenous families
French
Catholic
They rebelled against Canada
taking their lands
Destroying their
culture,
religion,
language

7. Dominion A self-governing nation.
Under the British North America Act of 1867,
Canada was granted self-government by Britain.
Its own parliament
By 1900
Control over
its armed forces
foreign policy
Canada remained loyal and close to Britain.

8. “OZ” Indigenous: Original people of a land.
40,000 years ago, people settled here probably from Southeast Asia.
They were called “aborigines” by White scientists, meaning they were the first people to move to Australia.
They call themselves “Kooris”
Their technology was basically stone age
They suffered disastrously when Whites arrived.

9. Britain Moves In Britain’s initial purpose for Australia was as a
penal colony:
A remote place where convicts were sent to be punished.
Botany Bay, near modern Sydney.
Few were ever allowed to return to Britain.
When freed, many became the first colonists.

10. Australia Grows
Especially after a gold rush in 1851, free immigrants began arriving in larger numbers. What livelihoods did most thrive in? (3)
Mines
Sheep ranches
Wheat farms
Many Kooris were murdered, subdued, or enslaved.

11. Home Rule
1901, Britain organized all Australian colonies into the Commonwealth of Australia.
Australia pioneered two electoral practices later adopted by the US and Britain.
Allowed women the right to vote.
Adopted the “secret ballot”

12. New Zealand First colonized by the Maori
The indigenous people of Aotearoa.
Arrived around 1250.
Made their living as….
Farmers
Warriors
Seafarers
First identified by Dutch explorer Abel Tasman, in the 1640s.
Four of his crewmen were killed by Maori.defenders
He named the place New Zealand.
Britain subdued them.
Missionaries tried to convert them to Christianity.

13. New Zealand British settlers came to Farm Herd sheep and cattle
profitable exports were (3)
Wool
Mutton
Beef

14. Maori Dwindle
European settlement meant several conflicts with the Maori
Many were killed in violence with Whites
Others died from (2)
Disease
Alcoholism
Maori lost 75 percent of their pre-European population.

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16. Map skills, 333
Questions 2
Because it is on the coast, British Columbia could be reached more easily by ship than inland Alberta and Saskatchewan 3
Nova Scotia:
timber, lobster, coal
Manitoba:
timber, gold, silver, copper

17. Standards Check, p. 334 Question:
Britain allowed Canada to transition peacefully to self-rule

18. Image, p 334
Question
Kooris (Aborigines) were thrust aside or killed as more British settlers came to Australia

19. Map skills, p. 335 Questions 2 The deserts 3 Mining of metals
Sheepherding

20. Standards Check, p. 335 Question:
The aborigines were killed or pushed out of areas desired by Europeans.

21. Standards Check, p. 336 Similar Different
Both Koori and Maori were harmed by British settlements
Maori in NZ who were farmers were concentrated in a smaller area than the Koori in Australia who hunted and gathered to support themselves.

22. Review
How were the industrial economies (Europe and the US) of the Imperialists linked to imperialism and colonialism? Here are your choices:
Social Darwinism:
Missionary impulse:
Land:
Resources:
Technology:
National security:
Strategic advantage:
National hegemony:

23. Review
Technology:
Made it possible for a few to conquer and use many others
Made it possible to reach almost any part of the world and quickly
National security:
Insuring safe borders, global safety; troops from the colonies
Strategic advantage:
Controlling key parts of the world
National hegemony:
Power over others

24. Review Social Darwinism:
Racist belief that the Western industrial nations were better than the other cultures in the world and had the right to take them over.
Missionary impulse:
Moral need to “save” the minds and souls of “savage” other peoples.
Land:
Includes resources underground
Resources:
Materials needed for technology, factories, consumer pleasure

25. Song : On the separate sheet of paper…..
What are the things that Queen Victoria thinks are from Britain? EC if you can name where they come from.
What atrocious practice is used to grow sugar?
Where are Queen Victoria and her husband Albert actually from?
What language is “Victoria” from?

26. The British Empire Rise and Fall….. And song: “British Things”
A parody by Horrible History

27. Song : On the separate sheet of paper…..
What are the things that Queen Victoria thinks are from Britain? EC if you can name where they come from.
tea (India); sugar (Caribbean); cotton (America);
What atrocious practice is used to grow sugar?
African slavery
Where are Queen Victoria and her husband Albert actually from?
German
What language is “Victoria” from?
Latin

28. End hwk
Begin class work