Legacies

1. Legacies By: CamilaGarzon

2. QUESTIONS • What are the three main important Legacies derived from imperialism? • Can you identify two main points of the three main legacies? • What are some of the changes from the foreign world to the new modern world?(eg. Food, materials.) • what occurred in the Apartheid years? • What caused the First Industrial Revolution? • How did the abolishment of Slavery occur ?

3. DEFINITIONS • IMPERIALISM-“the policy of extending the rule or authority of an empire or nation over foreign countries, or of acquiring and holding colonies and dependencies.”(1) • Apartheid-“any system or practice that separates people according to race, caste, etc.”(2)

4. LEGACY OF IMPERIALISM • During 1815 there was a big contrast between Europe the lands that America had conquered, along with lands from Asia and Africa • The Amerindian (American Indian) population of the time was destroyed, ever since the change in the demographic structure since there were voluntarily immigrants of Europe and forced slaves • Native Americans were pushed into reserves causing bloody wars because of land, therefore leaving the natives to live in reliant to economic and political status • Lives of Natives also changed politically, economically, and socially for those in Asia and Africa.

5. THE ECONOMIC LEGACY • The dependent relationship of dependency and underdevelopment was continued in the 19th century by using the colonies with the capitalist system • Because of this the agriculture and production of indigenous people declined • In which then forced the locals to become a culture dependant of money.

6. Economic Legacy Contd: MAJOR IMPACT OF CHANGE IN CAPITALISM • For the industrial capitalism there was a new way of trade. • “The orthodox economic doctrine” CHANGE IN TRADE • Britain became the #1 competitor specially with cotton the Americas, Asia and Africa became markets for manufacturing the cotton and also dependant of the raw materials.

7. Economic Legacy Contd. Because of the dependant relationship of imperialism the indigenous people were forced to change their way of exporting their agriculture with the new Imperialist powers reigning over them. • Europe felt the need to have the food of the Western World like sugar, Cacao, wheat, meat, tea, coffee, coconuts, palm oil, rice, bananas, and ground nuts • Also some products the felt the need to have were Tobacco, cotton, jute, rubber, wool, tin, silver, gold, bauxite, and copper.

8. CONCLUSION OF ECONOMIC LEGACY • Local production played a major role • The land being used to increase the increase of money because of imports. • But also made the part of the territory dependent on the amount of imports the received of food and manufactured good. • Britain became “trade central” with the non-western world and indigenous people lost their profits because Britain's prices were better and the materials had better qualities • Forced its local people to a cash economy.

9. CULTURAL LEGACY • European language was now changed the original native language was/ still s used but not in the high powered classes ( Politics, economics, and administration) • Languages changed to: • South America: Spanish or Portuguese • North Africa: French • India: English

10. CULTURAL LEGACY Contd. • Their religious views also changed-Christianity – • It was mostly used for the “justification of massacres, racial discrimination, cruelty, and regressive social policies” (1) • It was hard for them because religion was their daily life and now had changed.

11. SOCIAL LEGACY • The social legacy had the most drastic change specially in between whites and non-whites. • Slaves were traded off between Britain and other countries like the USA extending down to Cuba and Brazil • These slaves worked on railways, and mining

12. The Apartheid years ( Legacy of imperialism ) • During these years the indigenous men were harassed by society because they were basically just slaves working in very poor conditions with very little pay and some who had a wife and kid to help support. • “CAUTION BEWARE OF NATIVES”(2) is one of the signs whom were common at the time.

13. RESISTANCE TO IMPERIALISM • People tried to get their old ways of life back but it wasn’t possible because of the change to the modern world people were finding new ways to enforce their freedoms. • because of the resistance it caused the Revolutionary age in Europe 1789-1848 ( new political principles, economic forms, and social organizations.) • All this leading to the First Industrial Revolution in Britain 1780-1850 which fixed relationships between the “imperialist powers and their colonies and dependencies”(3)

14. RESISTACE TO IMPERIALISM Contd. • Britain’s First Industrial Revolution also caused the first colonial Independence movement when the United States of America became independent from Britain. • The American Revolution then inspired the liberation of south American’s from Spain. (1808-1825)

15. Abolition of Slavery • Britain and the US ended their involvement with Slave trade in 1807-1808 • So did Latin America, and France, though they were still dependant of the nations they were not colonized by Spain. • Haiti further on also got the freedom from slavery in 1791

16. Works Cited • Gini-Newman, Garfield. Legacy: The West and the World. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 2002. Print. • "The Industrial Revolution Begins in England (1760-1850)." Untitled Document. N.p., n.d. Web. 15 Apr. 2014. • "Apartheid." Dictionary.com. Dictionary.com, n.d. Web. 15 Apr. 2014.(1-2)