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Unit 6 1750-1900 - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Trail of Tears
        
        The trail to which the Indians were removed from their lands causing many deaths
      - Moved Indians to reservations to have land
    - - Was a prophecy that their ancestors would come back and drive off the white people
  - - - America also bought Alaska from Russia
  - - - He added to that that if any Latin American country would show instability, they would interfere
- - - - The idea that some humans are superior to others
    - - Need to obtain raw materials at a low cost to produce goods
    - - Patriotism and expand for more power
    - - The spread of Christianity to enlighten people
    - - Sense of discovery, innovation, and the competition to discover and claim
    - - Evaluation of another culture looking at it from one’s own culture
  - - - Had better economy
      - They would dominate other economies
    - - The maxim gun
      - Were able to defeat the indigenous people easy
      - They had better weapons and better health
    - - Wanted to spread Christianity
      - Wanted to civilize the people
    - - Would bring them into foreign countries
      - A lot of people would die
  - - - Sold Opium to China
    - - The British won both
      - Treaty of Nanking
        
        Opened four additional trading ports, free trade was granted (including opium), and the island of Hong Kong was given to England
      - Treaty of Tientsin (Tianjin)
        
        Kowloon Peninsula given to Britain, opium was legalized, new ports were opened, and Christian missionaries given permission to enter the country.
  - - - Made it so that raw and manufacture materials could be transported
- - - - Death was not seen as a definitive end
      - Person would live on through some sort of an altered state
      - If a Xhosa is a bad person then his or her belongings are also bad
      - Had a mix of Christianity
    - - Stated by two strangers that everyone will rise from dead and all cattle must be killed with crops burned so White invaders can be driven out by Xhosa ancestors
        
        Known as the Cattle Killing Movement
        
        This brought starvation and famine among people
        
        This was due to a belief that British cattle infected their cattle
  - - - King Leopold II
        
        Set the Congo as his own personal land
        
        Used force labor to get ivory and rubber from land
        
        8,000,000 people died due to his oppressiveness
        
        People in Congo said that it was better when he was around then now
        
        There is no government in Congo
- - - - Was killed by British officials by hanging
- - - - Did not want anything to do with any foreign country or their way of life
- - - - Later reversed by the Treaty of Berlin
- - - - Slavery (African Slave trade would be
        abolished in 1807)
      - Chinese/Indian indentured servitude
        
        Contracts between 5-10 years
        long
        
        Employed by Imperial
        governments
        
        Usually worked on plantations
        (replaced slave labor after abolition)
        
        Convict labor
        
        English convicts forced to Australia and New Zealand to reduce crowded prisons
    - - In search of work
      - Some stay permanently and come home to visit
        
        Italians in Argentina
        
        Offered citizenship to migrants when US was more anti-immigrant
        
        Lebanese merchants in Americas
        
        Some fled for religious reasons
        
        Better business in Americas than in Imperial Europe
  - - - Women now took the jobs of men
    - - Ethnic Enclaves
        
        Chinatown and little Italy
        
        Support system for new immigrants
    - - Societies often rejected
        immigrants
      - Tried to regulate the
        number of people entering their country
      - US passed the Chinese Exclusion Act in
        1882
      - White Australia policy barred non-Europeans
        from migrating to Australia