Nationalism, Industrialization, and Imperialism

1. Complete the who, what, when, where, why analysis of the Treaty of Westphalia

Treaty of Westphalia

  • Who?- Germany, Switzerland, France, Spain
  • What- agreed to territorial tolerance concept, some states chose one religions other chose another
  • When?-1648
  • Where?- Europe
  • Why?- It ended the Thirty Years War, settled the rebellion against Spain, giving the former its full independence

2. Define nationalism in your own words: Nationalism is excessive devotion to your nation. As well as having national spirit and loyalty to ones own country.

  • Unification of Italy: education expanded, promoted literacy, Freedoms were protected, attention to socialism. constitutional issues that replaced social issues. Prime Minster Camillio di Cavour favored unification as federal states under monarchy. Mazzini favored unification under democratic republic. Unification of Italy happened in 1859-1870
  • Unification of Germany: 1866 Prussia emerged as a supreme power. In Prussia, Otto von Bismarck was the leader during the 1680's. He embraced nationalism. Prussia had a union of 22 states called the North German Confederation in 1866 after defeating Austria. The Germans defeated France in the France-Prussian War
  • Zionism: the national movement for the return of the Jewish people to their homeland regained their land.

  • Brazilian Independence: European demand for colonial products such as sugar, cotton and cacao. Independence in minas gerias in 1788. He left his son Pedro as regent, warning him that if independence came. He declared Brazilian independence in 1822, he became Dom Pedro I.
  • Monroe Doctrine: American declaration stated in 1823 by President Monroe in which Europeans countries establishing that any attempt of a European country to colonize them would be wrong.
  • Argentine Republic: presidents that paralleled a reform in Mexico. It is a unified nation after a considerable fighting in 1862 and a new constitution is issued. Liberal reforms included freedom of religion. Opponents compromised and created a unified republic.
  • Balkan Nationalism - The Austrians pushed the northern Balkans, they challenged the rulers in 1908. They won independence from the Ottoman empire.

3. Summarize the global impact of nationalism.
Nationalism leads to wars because of the excessive devotion to a nation. Nation feel they are the best and try to prove it to other nations, by trying to expand which leads to invasions and wars. It’s a struggle for power and dominance.

4. Look at the data below and answer the questions that follow
1. Compl
Index Numbers of World Trade (Volume of trade in selected years compared to 1913)

Year
Index Number
1850
10
1870
24
1895
48
1901
67
1911
96
1913
100


Iron Production (1000's Metric Tons)


1830
1850
1913
Britain
700
2,716
9,792
France
244
1,262
4,626
Russia
167
231
3,870
Germany
111
246
14,836


Years of Life Expectancy at Birth

Country
Year: 1820
Year: 1900
Britain
40
50
Average,rest of Western Europe
36
46
United States
39
47
Japan
34
44
Russia
28
32
Average, all Latin America
27
32
Average, all Asia
23
24
Average all Africa
23
24

  • Which of the data sets above do you think is the most significant? Why?
I think the years of life expectancy at birth are the more significant because although some countries had a large increase in years of expectancy like Britain, the average of all Asia and Africa only went up 1 year in 80 years.
  • Taken together what do these data sets tell us?
This data shows us how life expectancy was increasing in Europe, but however the rest of the world like Russia, Latin America, Asia, and Africa were barely improving whatsoever. 80 years is a great amount of time for medicine to improve, but the data shows that developed countries were increasing life expectancy while in other undeveloped nations life expectancy was not getting any better, probably cause of the lack of technology.


5. Read the following and answer the questions below.


  • What was the Industrial revolution?
The Industrial Revolution was a time when production and manufacturing began. It came with improvement in production of food, rapid rise in population, and increasing demand for products.
  • What was its origins?
It began in the late eighteenth century in Britain. Was a result of some enlightenment ideas.
  • What were its major effects?
Some major effects included rise is population, improvement in technology that led to items like cars, buses, ect. Overall ride of cities and formation of self-conscious working class.

6. Now referring to your textbook create a chart or mindmap of the effects of Industrialization. You must include the following.
  • Gender roles/issues
  • Family Structures
  • Social Structures
  • Extension of voting rights (chartist movement)
  • Mass leisure culture
  • Romanticism
  • Socialism
  • Communism

7. Examine the map below and the data that follows - What do they show us?

The map shows us the British Empire in 1920’s. It shows us the percentage controlled is a given area. This tells me how strong the British Empire was in the 1920’s. They controlled most of Africa and Polynesia.

8. Define Imperialism in your own words: Imperialism is widening the rule or authority of an empire or nation over foreign countries, or of gaining and holding colonies and dependencies.

9. What were the motivations for Imperialism?

Some of the motives for Imperialism include economic, political, and religious. Economically there is the desire to make a profit, by expanding trade and control in foreign trade, by obtaining raw materials. Politically imperialism a nations desire to gain power to compete with other countries with the overall interest of expanding territory and gain statue to increase national pride. Imperialism also plays a role in religion because of the desire to spread a religion and spread European values and moral beliefs.

10. Define in your own words.

The British East India Company: joint stock company that allowed the British to trade with the East Indies

Sepoys: Indian soldier recruited into European power

British Raj: period of British rule in India

Partition of Africa/ Berlin Conference: regulated European colonization and trade in Africa during the new imperialism period

Settlement Colonies: the second type of European colony, where descendants of European countries governed themselves with little or no interference from indigenous populations

White Dominions: made up good portion of Britain’s empire but was a small percent of the total population

Cecil Rhodes: A British entrepreneur that moved to South Africa after diamonds had been discovered; became a businessman and politician in South Africa

James Cook: Spanish captain who had opened Hawaii up to the West