1. Imbalance in Trade

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3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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).

6. Great Britain
factories 1
India 3 4
cotton

7. 1
India 3 4
cotton
Great Britain
factories
British colonize
India and force cotton
be grown by farmers.

8. 2. Cotton is given to English and sent back to England1
India 3 4
cotton
Great Britain
factories

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

10. 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
India 3 4
cotton
Great Britain
factories