- ENG 4 presentation

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The British Empire and the Industrial Revolution

What will we discuss today? 

- WHY Britain created an empire;

- The size of the British Empire;

- The link between the empire and the Industrial Revolution;

- The Industrial Revolution;

1607 

East India Company (1600)

WHY?

1664

1763

00:18

How does '13 original colonies' relate to the topic 'The British Empire'?

Significance? 

• Example; 
• Defeat = end of the 1st British Empire. 

What percentage of the world belonged to the British Empire
(at its height)?

Australia

Canada

The British won Canada from the French in 1759 during the Seven Years' War.  The war originally started over a conflict of French expansion in America. 

--> Their victoryshowed how far Britain was willing to go to protect its colonial interests!

-->Small conflicts between England/France continued. 

Ireland

South Africa

India

New Zealand

Dominica, ....

1783: The Treaty of Paris --> new colonies in  North and Central America: Canada, Dominica, Grenada, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and Tobago.  

This British victory resulted in an angry France supporting America in the War of Independence just over a decade later.

Egypt

British Occupation (1822-1922) It wasn't long before British and Egyptian forces clashed with a decisive British victory and by September of 1882, Britain had captured Cairo and occupied Egypt. From 1882-1922, Britain formally occupied Egypt and controlled its government.

1922

The Great Game (1830-1907) 

Britain vs. Russia

=> the Crimean War

Russia vs. Ottoman Empire

After WWII

After 1924... 

       

money

protection

and power

the right to rule people against their will 

1919

Ireland (1919-1921)

- UK

- Irish Free State

- dominion

- 1949

India

 1919: massacre at Amritsar

1930: The Salt March

1935: Government of India act

1947: full independence (India/Pakistan)

Africa

- WWI

- democracy?

- 1950s-1980s

1926  The Balfour Declaration 

"freely associated as members of the British Commonwealth of Nations"

1947

1926

1926

1926

1926 + 1960s

1960s

1998

What signs of 'Britishness' can still be seen in the former colonies?

EEC

- free trade

- trading community

The Industrial Revolution

The Industrial Revolution

• Agricultural Revolution 1600s;

more food = more people  = more demand for goods!

•  handtools > machines
• strong economy (Empire)
•  technological advancements

First Industrial Revolution (1760-1840)

1807

Technogical changes

coal

iron

Second Industrial Revolution 

Matching exercise

More people started working in cities and close to factories.

Coal and iron was needed at factories all over Europe. They needed to transport these materials. 

Men, women and children had to work long days in unsafe factories. More and more people started to complain.