AP World Unit 6
Diets and new medicine being created vastly increased European population
People living in rural poverty areas migrated to find new jobs in industrialized areas
This led to mass urbanization in cities
People in famine areas also wanted to fled to industrialized areas
New waves of transportation like the railroad and steamship gave people new travel methods.
Migration also happened from coerced labor and indentured servitude due to people needing to move around
Indentured servitude helped a lot of states industrialize for economic profit
Because of huge migration for jobs, many women started to take traditional men roles
Households like in South Africa as well as subsistent farming were now being led by women.
They were also able to gain financial independence from selling cassava on the market.
Ethnic enclaves started to form which is when immigrants were able to practice their culture in another land.
This led to cultural diffusion
Nativism started to occur which is the idea of protecting natives over immigrants.
This led to many discriminatory and racial prejudice especially from the US
The Chinese Exclusion Act caused all chinese immigrants to be kicked out of the US despite being vital to the railroad building.
The White Australia Policy also cut off all chinese immigrants in Australia.
During the Industrial Revolution, many European countries needed to find new raw materials to use as well as start selling more products abroad.
However, European imperialists saw that they needed more markets for coal and factories to keep a civil war from approaching due to unfair wealth distribution.
Imperialism started to become the new mercantilism where countries would do anything for little economic profit and started to invent new technologies like the underwater telegraph and quinine to prevent more deaths.
King Leopold II believed that he wanted to take over the Free State of Congo
His mission was to convert the indigenous people to Christianity and bring glories to western education
This led to brutality in the farming of rubber
The Berlin Conference consisted of every European power disclosing how much land they will hold on Africa.
Warfare was included in colonizing Africa as France decided to take much of North Africa after failing diplomacy for payment of wheat.
Manifest Destiny was the belief to expand westward in the USA after the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 and after wars with Mexico and Spain for land.
The USA put indigenous onto reserved lands and stripped away non-American culture from children.
Pan-Slavism arose which is the idea to unite all Slavic people, including people from the Ottoman and Austrian rule.
Settler colonies arose where people will replace indigenous and native colonies with new people, with the British doing it in Australia and New Zealand.
Psuedo-scientific racism was being introduced to Western education to try to bring the white race as the superior race
Direct resistance was when people rebelled with weapons and violence like the Indian Rebellion of 1857 against the British
Another war was the War of the Golden Stool in which the Astante Kingdom fought against the British in order to gain more gold resources.
The Trail of Tears was when indigenous people were banned from Congress to go on reserved lands so the US can continue expanding westward.
Religious rebellions also occured in which the Xhosa Prophet Nongqawuse movement consisted of the Cosa killing their cattle in hopes of new healthy cattle being brought to life and the dead scaring the British off of their land
Ultimately, that didnāt work and the British were able to conquer them.