Western Powers Rule Southeast Asia

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Western Powers Rule Southeast Asia

• By Devon Nuel, Jared Grapes, Max Sala, and Alex
  Landy

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Western Powers Rule Southeast Asia

• Western imperialists, including the United
  States, claim lands in
• The South Pacific
• Southeast Asia
• Hawaiian Islands
• Only Siam remains independent.

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Western rivalries for Pacific Rim

• Demand for Asian products
• Drove Europeans to seek possession of Southeast
  Asia and islands of Pacific Rim
• Wanted area for its resources
• Sugar cane, coffee, cocoa
• Rubber, coconuts
• Bananas, pineapple
• As trade grew, European powers claimed more lands

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Dutch controlled Indonesia

• Dutch East India Company controlled island chain
• Indonesia
• Created rigid class system
• Dutch on top
• Wealthy and educated Indonesians in the middle
• Plantation workers/ farmers at bottom

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Britishs control of Malay Peninsula

• The British took port of Singapore plus Malaysia
  Burma
• British encouraged Chinese to move to Malaysia
  for working purposes
• Malaysia/ Burma
• Resources
• Large deposits of tin
• Worlds leading rubber exporter
• Oil

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Frances control of Indochina

• Indochina (modern Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam)
• French wanted
• Large overseas market
• Military intervention
• Did not encourage local industry
• Rice became major export crop
• Consumption decreased, because it was shipped out
  of the region
• Set stage for Vietnamese resistance against the
  French

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Impact of Colonialism

• Colonialism brought features of modern life to
  southeast Asia
• Economy improved
• Roads, harbors, rail systems improved
  communication/ transportation
• Education/Health/Sanitation
• Economic changes benefited European business
• Cash crops/goods (rubber, tin)
• People from other areas of Asia migrated
• Working in Southeast Asia
• plantations
• mines
• Migration made Southeast Asia a melting pot.

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Siams Independence

• Siam (Thailand) maintained its independence
• King Monghut and his son modernized Siam
• Without giving up power to western powers
• Started schools
• Reformed legal system
• Reorganized government
• Built railroads, telegraph systems
• Ended slavery
• Escaped
• turmoil
• economic exploitation
• racist treatment

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US Imperialism

• Late 1800s, US began to seek colonies
• 1898, Spanish-American War
• US won
• Puerto Rico
• Guam
• Philippine Islands
• Emilio Aguinaldo- leader in fight against Spain
• Struggle with Americans for Filipino freedom
• United States defeated the rebels in 1902
• American businesses exploited Filipinos
• Cash crops at expense of basic food crops

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Republic of Hawaii annexed as US Territory

• American businessmen grew wealthy from
  plantations
• Imported laborers from
• Japan
• Portugal
• China
• Close ties with US
• McKinley Tariff of 1890 provoked crisis
• American planters called for US to annex islands
• 1890s, Queen Liliuokalani tried to regain
  control
• Business groups organized a revolution
• With help of US marines they overthrew the queen
• Government headed by Sanford B. Dole
• Republic of Hawaii
• Asked the US to annex Hawaii
• 1898, Hawaii became a territory of the United
  States!

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THE END!