1. CHAPTER 17
The Age of Imperialism
Section 4: Expansion in Asia
Objectives:
Explain how Britain’s rule of India contributed to the
growth of Indian nationalism.
Detail changes that took place in Japan under the Meiji
government, and explain how Japan
responded to Western imperialists.
Explain why Western nations competed for lands in East
Asia, and list the lands they claimed.

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Expansion in Asia
As Western imperialism reached into
Asia and the Pacific during the
1800s, native peoples often
responded with resistance and
conflict.

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Expansion in Asia
British East India Company
treated India like a private
colony.
British gov’t took control after
1857.
Great Britain ruled 3/5 of
Indian subcontinent; the rest
was divided into more than
550 states.

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Expansion in Asia
The British were active
rulers in India.
• Kept order; ended local
wars
• Built roads, bridges,
railroads
• Built factories, hospitals,
schools
• Tried to improve Indian
farming methods

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Expansion in Asia
… people of two very different
cultures living side by side.
The British believed in their
superiority (paternalism). They were
treated like an “ubercaste,” and did not
allow Indians in their social events,
even if the Indian was royalty!

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Expansion in Asia
Rise of Indian Nationalism
• British system of education had a powerful impact
on the Indians.
• Self-rule movement began in late 1800s
– Some wanted independence gradually
– Others wanted to break all ties and sweep Western
influences away
– The Indian National Congress, a democratic social
party, was founded in 1885 as a result of this new
nationalism
• The British kept the country on a tight rein.

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Expansion in Asia
In 1853, the American
commodore Matthew
Perry arrived and
demanded that Japan be
opened to trade. By
1856, Japan was forced
to receive Western
consuls and to open
ports to foreign trade.

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Expansion in Asia
Japanese Responses to Imperialism
• Westerners did NOT
rule Japan – but Japan
would be influenced.
• Japan change its gov’t
and began to
industrialize

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Expansion in Asia
Meiji Restoration
• 1868 – group of samurai
overthrew
Tokugawa shogunate
and returned the
emperor to power.
• Had grown impatient
and wanted a gov’t and
society more like the
West.

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Expansion in Asia
Meiji Restoration
Important changes …
•Did away with old feudal
system.
•Required ALL should be
literate.
•New constitution that gave
voting rights to more people
•Imperial Diet – bicameral
legislature (House of Peers and
House of Representatives)

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Expansion in Asia
Industrialization
The new government imposed military reforms to
modernize Japan's army and established the
foundation for industrialization.
Lack of capital dictated direct
government involvement in the
stages of industrialization.
Japan's careful management of
industrialization limited foreign
involvement. Japan would depend
on the importation of equipment and
raw materials from the West.

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Expansion in Asia
• Gov’t bought new factory equipment from Western
countries.
• Sent students & leaders to the West.
• By 1900 – Japan was the first country in Asia to
industrialize.

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Expansion in Asia
Sino-Japanese War
• China had control of
Korea – and Japan had
its eye on it.
• 1894 – rebellion broke
out.
• Everyone thought
China would have a
quick easy victory…
• WRONG!

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Expansion in Asia
Japan had a modern well equipped military.
And they were prepared.
Japan defeated China in less than 10 months-
(1 August 1894 – 17 April 1895)

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Expansion in Asia
Treaty of Shimonoseki 1895
• China was forced to give Korea its
independence.
• Japan gained control of island of
Taiwan and the eastern portion of the
bay of Liaodong Peninsula.
• China agrees to pay to Japan as a war
indemnity the sum of 200,000,000
Kuping taels (8,267 TONS in silver , or $8.2
BILLION)!
• AND the right to trade in China.

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Expansion in Asia
Imperialism in Southeast Asia
British French Dutch
Colonies Gains East
Indies
Burma French Java,
east border Indochina Sumatra &
with India Laos, Borneo
Cambodia, would
Singapore Vietnam
become
control of vital Siam Indonesia in
trade route; would be a 1949
imp. naval buffer between
base the French &
British

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Expansion in Asia
American Imperialism
in the Pacific
The Samoa Islands
Hawaiian Islands
Philippines, Guam & Wake Island
Why would the US want these little islands in the Pacific??

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Expansion in Asia
 Coaling stations.
 More trading
partners
 A haven for
ship-wrecked
sailors

19. Political Cartoon
Expansion in Asia

20. Political Cartoon
Expansion in Asia

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Expansion in Asia
This cartoon shows a huge
disconnect between British
propaganda and reality. On
14th February, Illingsworth
was busy depicting a
‘fractious’ India that would
break up without the
British Raj. Four days later,
the 20 lakh colonial Indian
armed forces, united and
raised the banner of
Independence. United
across ranks, skin color,
language, geography,
religion, caste, height,
weight – with only one
thing uniting them. They
were all Indians.
14 May 1946

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Expansion in Asia
Modern badminton was
"discovered" in the 19th century
by British officers in India who
watched locals play a game
called Poona. In England it
became known as "Hit and
Scream." But in 1873, at the
Badminton House in
Gloucestershire, the British
version of the game was
officially launched and
henceforth known as badminton.

23. CHAPTER 26
Chapter Wrap-Up
1. What evidence is there that an
industrialized country can control a
country that is not industrialized?
2. What evidence is there to show that
areas were colonized because they met
the transportation needs of other, more
powerful countries?
3. What evidence is there to show that
areas were colonized for natural
resources?