DBQ - Imperialism

Step 1- Read the Historical Context and the Question Brainstorm a list of events/ “buzzwords” that you know about within the historical context, then buzzwords about Imperialism

Step 1- Read the Historical Context and the Question historical context- 1800s-1900s buzzwords about Imperialism

Step 1- Read the Historical Context and the Question historical context- 1800s-1900s Industrial Revolution in England and Europe Meiji Restoration in Japan (modernization) Unification of Germany and Italy Capitalism and communism buzzwords about Imperialism Africa Berlin Conference White Man’s Burden Ethnocentrism Boer War- South Africa Zulus Raw Materials and New Markets

More Buzzwords about Imperialism India Hindu Caste System- priests, untouchables British East India Tea Co. Sepoys/ Sepoy Rebellion Direct Govt Control Goods- tea, opium, cotton China Opium War Treaty of Nanjing Spheres of influence Extraterritoriality Christian Missionaries Taiping Rebellion Qing Dynasty Boxer Rebellion

Step 2- Organize Essay Look more closely at the question, and choose topics for your body paragraphs Body Paragraph 1- Body Paragraph 2-

Step 2 Look more closely at the question, and choose topics for your body paragraphs Body Paragraph 1- Imperialism from the Imperialist power Body Paragraph 2- Imperialism from the colonized people

Step 3- Organize your information Organize Outside Documents into BP1 and BP2 Label them BP1 and BP2 or I for Imperialist and C for Colonized Peoples Label your Brainstormed Information BP1 and BP2

Step 4- and 5 Write Body Paragraphs Skip 10 lines for the introduction (we will do that last) Write your body paragraphs, using your documents and the brainstormed (outside) information

Step 4 Body Paragraph- Step 5- Documents For each document, use the DOD protocol Refer to Title and author (not Document number) Primary or secondary source Gist or main idea A quote Significance of document Be sure to cite each document in parenthesis

Step 5- Example “According to J. Chamberlain in Foreign and Colonial Speeches, a primary source published in 1897, he believed that colonies were important to Great Britain because Africa was being “opened to civilization.” The author is ethnocentric and probably agrees with the famous poem by Rudyard Kipling, A White Man’s Burden. “ (D 1)

Step 6- Introduction and Conclusion Copy the historical Context Define the theme (imperialism) Restate the task