NEW IMPERIALISM: CAUSES Read ‘Witness to History’ on the top of page 607 A different Kind of Revolution Make a prediction on the ways the Industrial Revolution will change society? Analyzing a Visual Analyze the picture on page 606 What was the reaction to the development of the railroad? Does it support your prediction about the IR?

DBQ: NEW IMPERIALISM: CAUSES A DBQ provides you with an opportunity to weigh significant evidence / documents to reach an informed position and to present the information in response to a question. Document-based questions are designed to help you become a skillful historian and a competent writer. Examining real evidence about important questions in history in order to reach a position are skills authentic to the analysis of history.

DBQ: NEW IMPERIALISM: CAUSES PROCESS: 1.Read the question carefully. -What does the question ask you to do? -Underline key terms 2.Write down facts. -names, dates, events 3.Read and analyze the documents. -Look at the author and time written -Identify the point of view (for / against) -Respond to the prompt

DBQ: NEW IMPERIALISM: CAUSES PROCESS: 4.Reread the question. -Carefully consider the document summaries 5.Plan / organize your response, so that you will be able to prove your thesis (essay)with supporting evidence. -Identify the main subjects -Record important information from the documents

DBQ: NEW IMPERIALISM: CAUSES PROCESS: 6. After reading the documents try to form categories in which you can show relationships between the documents. -Identify the main subjects -Select the documents and group together ones related to another

DBQ: DOCUMENT 1 Pointed to economic causes: Producers of cotton & iron who need markets. Importers provide raw materials to industries Ship-owners need fueling stations. Weapon-makers supplied the government. Bankers made loans to colonies for RR and other services. ECONOMIC

DBQ: DOCUMENT 2 Senator Beveridge suggested that the US was destined to expand its trading because it was producing so much. Also, he suggested that it would be a sign of American power if we built a merchant marine and trading empire. Economic / Political

DBQ: DOCUMENT 3 According to Aron, economics (profit) was not the cause of imperialism; rather, the cause of imperialism was political. Countries were motivated by nationalism-a desire for power and glory. Political

DBQ: DOCUMENT 4 Rhodes believed that the British were a superior race and it was their duty to acquire as much land as possible. As a result, there would be more Anglo- Saxons, the best race, controlling the world. This is a racist cause for imperialism. Social (ethnocentrism)

DBQ: DOCUMENT 5 Langer said economic forces should not hide the other factors that caused imperialism. He pointed to Social Darwinism Social Darwinism

DBQ: DOCUMENT 6 According to the poem, it is the white man’s burden to help care for the “half-devil and half-child,” Kipling’s description of the people in the colonies. The poem illustrates the racial superiority that some white people felt at that time in history. Social

DBQ: DOCUMENT 7 President McKinley it was our responsibility to educate, uplift, civilize, and Christianize the Filipinos because they were “unfit” to rule themselves. Another example of racist viewpoint. Social

DBQ: DOCUMENT 8 The Vietnamese leader believed that the French were able to colonize the area because they had superior weapons and ships. Political / Military

DBQ: DOCUMENT 9 This map shows how the Europeans carved up Africa. Political / Military

DBQ: Categories Document 1 & 2 – Economic Document 2,3,13,14– Political Document 4-7 – Social Document