Bellringer
1. Explain why Chapter 23 and 25 might be
appropriately grouped together in a unit of study.
2. Provide evidence to support the “Overarching Idea”
that social inequality is source of conflict yet everpresent in civilizations.
Neo-Colonialism
• Neo-colonialism- politically independent but developing
nations are controlled through trade and economics rather
than governmentally
• Where?
• When?
• Why?
Case Studies
Mexico
1. -
Brazil
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2. 3. -
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4. -
5. 6. 7. -
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Migration
~a window on 19th century life~
-consider the timing, origins, destinations
Push Factors
• Problems
– Famine
– Weak economy
– Unstable gov’t
Pull Factors
• Promise of a “better life”
– Job opportunities
– Gov’t stability, choice
– Education
Year
1820
1825
1830
1835
1840
8,385
10,199
23,322
45,374
84,066
1845
114,371
Year
1850
1855
1860
1865
1870
369,980
200,877
153,640
248,120
387,203
1875
1880
1885
1890
1895
1900
1905
227,498
457,257
395,346
455,302
258,536
448,572
1,026,499
1910
1,041,570
Persons Obtaining Legal Permanent Resident Status Fiscal Years 1820 to 2010
Country/Year
China
France
Germany
Ireland
Italy
Russia
United Kingdom
Total Foreign Born
% Foreign Born
Total Population
1830*
1850
9
8
54
54
584
962
1880
104
107
1,967
1,855
27
108*
0.8%*
12,785
1830
379
2,244
9.7%
23,191
1850
918
6,679
13.3%
50,155
1880
1900
2,663
1,615
484
424
1,168
10,341
13.6%
75,994
1900
Global Migrations of the 1800s
Industrialization
The Great Migration
• Rural to urban migration as nations industrialized
• Long distance migration from urban to urban
migrations
– lower class Europeans fled to U.S., Latin America,
Australia
• Chinese migrants fled famine & revolts to move
to U.S., Peru, Mexico, filling labor needs after
slavery abolished
W. Europe
1750-1850
1850-1914
Latin America
• Which of the following ran counter to the
democratic impulses associated with the
American Revolution?
a) Rejection of aristocratic notions of hierarchy in the
thirteen colonies
b) Continued centrality of slavery to the colonial
socioeconomic order
c) New England's tradition of town meetings
d) Virginia's practice of election of a House of
Burgesses
e) Demands for representation in British Parliament
• Which traditions of the French Revolution did
not survive long beyond the initial and radical
phases?
a)
b)
c)
d)
Universal male suffrage
Attack on feudal privilege and institutions
Popular nationalism
The metric system
• What was the main commonality Liberal and
Conservative politicians shared in nineteenthcentury Latin America?
a) They agreed that the Catholic Church had too much
power.
b) Both were led by wealthy landowners and the urban
middle to upper classes.
c) They agreed on the immediate abolition of slavery
and repatriation to Africa.
d) Both looked with admiration on the example of
independent Haiti.
e) Both were influenced by the ideas of Karl Marx.
• What impact did the instability of the wars for
independence have on subsequent developments in Latin
America?
a) Agricultural regions devastated by modern warfare were slow
to recover, leading to widespread famine.
b) Female veterans of military service refused subordinate roles
in the home.
c) Military leaders remained influential and intervened
frequently in political affairs.
d) Mestizo, slave, and indigenous populations formed guerrilla
units and launched armed struggle for communism.
e) The grip of the Catholic Church was weakened and various
strains of Protestantism became the dominant form of
Christianity.
• Which area of the 19th century Latin
American economy was most damaged by
free-trade relations with the British?
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
Rail
Port city
Manufacturing
Ranching
Agricultural
• Why was the struggle for Brazilian independence
distinctive in Latin American history?
a) Brazil was the only colony whose economy was
dependent on cash crops.
b) Brazil remained a monarchy after independence.
c) Brazil abolished slavery before independence was
achieved.
d) Brazil was the first colony to achieve independence.
e) Brazil was the only ethnically diverse colony where
racial hierarchy did not exist before or after
independence.
• Which best characterizes the rule and impact of
Porfirio Diaz in Mexico?
a) Sacrifice of liberal political principles in pursuit of
industrial and infrastructural modernization
b) Peasant-based populist mandate achieving
comprehensive land reform
c) Puppet ruler manipulated by German imperialism
bringing little to no economic development
d) Conservative ruler who returned large landowners
and Catholic elites to power
e) Communist revolutionary implementing a series of
Five-Year Plans for agriculture and industry