1. Class Docs pg. 56 Workbook pg. 16
The Sepoy Rebellion
Class Docs pg. 56
Workbook pg. 16

2. Essential Question
Who or what was most responsible for the Sepoy Rebellion?

3. Document A 1. Read Document A with your partner Vocab at the bottom
2. Answer questions 1-4 using complete sentences
Remember to consider who is writing this and what they might be trying to accomplish.

4. Document B 1. Read Document B with your partner Vocab at the bottom
2. Answer questions 1-5 using complete sentences
Remember to consider who is writing this and what they might be trying to accomplish.

5. Document C 1. Read Document C with your partner Vocab at the bottom
2. Answer questions 1-5 using complete sentences
Remember to consider who is writing this and what they might be trying to accomplish.

6. Document D 1. Read Document D with your partner Vocab at the bottom
2. Answer questions 1-5 using complete sentences
Remember to consider who is writing this and what they might be trying to accomplish.

7. Warm Up # 45
Who has been the most credible source in Documents A – D. What makes them a good source for you?

8. Class Docs pg. 60 Workbook pg. 20
The Sepoy Rebellion
Class Docs pg. 60
Workbook pg. 20

9. Document E 1. Read Document E with your partner Vocab at the bottom
2. Answer questions 1-5 using complete sentences
Remember to consider who is writing this and what they might be trying to accomplish.

10. Sepoy Rebellion Thesis Statement

11. Effects of British Rule
Positives
Improved roads and modernized ports
Built railroads and telegraph systems
Help BR. Control the Indian people better
Improved sanitation and health care

12. Set up schools Only upper class Indians Taught BR. Superiority
“a class of persons, Indian in blood and color, but English in taste, in opinion, in morals, and in intellect”
Taught about EUR political ideas like liberty and “consent of the governed” (OOPS!)

13. BR. wanted to make Indian economy dependent on them
Economic Changes
BR. wanted to make Indian economy dependent on them
Eliminated Indian industries and force the sale of imports from BR.
Many Indians turn to cash crop instead of farming
Less food production = famine

14. “In India, every European is automatically a member of the ruling race
“In India, every European is automatically a member of the ruling race. Railway carriages, station waiting rooms, benches in parks are marked “For Europeans Only.” To have put up with this in one’s own country is a humiliating reminder of our enslaved condition.”