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Mr. Rubin

MacArthur High School (516) 434-7225; Salk Middle School (516) 434-7350

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Indigenous Responses to State Expansion from 1750 to 1900

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Indigenous Responses to State Expansion from 1750 to 1900
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A. Governance: 
  • Increasing questions about political authority and growing nationalism contributed to anticolonial movements.
  • Anti-imperial resistance took various forms including direct resistance within empires and the creation of new states on the peripheries.
    • ​Direct resistance
      • Tupac Amaru II’s rebellion in Peru
      • Samory Toure’s military battles in West Africa
      • Yaa Asantewaa War in West Africa
      • 1867 rebellion in India
    • New States
      • ​Establishment of independent states in the Balkans
      • Sokoto Caliphate in modern-day Nigeria
      • Cherokee Nation
      • Zulu Kingdom
  • Increasing discontent with imperial rule led to rebellions, some of which were influenced by religious ideas.
    • Ghost Dance in the U.S.
    • Xhosa Cattle-Killing Movement in Southern Africa
    • Madhist wars in Sudan




Links:

- Tupac Amaru II's rebellion in Peru

- Samory Toure’s military battles in West Africa
- Yaa Asantewaa War in West Africa

- 1867 rebellion in India
- Establishment of independent states in the Balkans
- Sokoto Caliphate in modern-day Nigeria
- Cherokee Nation
- Zulu Kingdom
- Ghost Dance in the U.S.
- Xhosa Cattle-Killing Movement in Southern Africa
- Madhist wars in Sudan
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