Unit 6: Consequences of Industrialization

Chapters

Context

Imperialism

• Competition among industrializing states led to states further expand and consolidate their colonial holdings

• From colonies they could extract natural resources

• Justified through Social Darwinism and white man’s burden

• Portugal & Spain declined; Britain and France further expanded; US and Japan rose as new world powers

Resistance to Imperialism

• Start of the rise of anti-colonial and nationalist movements in colonies

• These movements would set the stage for decolonization in the later 1900s

Migration

• Thanks to new forms of transportation and new economic opportunities in places, more people chose to migrate to places where they could find work