1. DBQ - Imperialism

2. 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

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

4. 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

5. 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

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

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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)

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