Imperialism Images

AP World History

Directions for “Analyzing Imperial Motives”

1. Work with your Seat Buddy.

2. Read the description of each motive listed.

3. Create a symbol you think best describes each motive.

4. For EACH source…1. Describe what you see = just the facts.

2. Analyze which motive(s) are present and draw their symbol(s) down.

3. Explain why you see these motives in this source.

ADiamond Mine in South Africa

B

C

D

EElephant Tusks

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G

Quotation Reads:

“The first step towards lightening the White Man’s Burden is through teaching the virtues of cleanliness.

H

IThe Partition of China

THE heathen Chinee! The Heathen Chinee!

What a channel for Christian Expansion is he.

Then Ho! For the Flowery Land of the East,

Like vultures we’ll swoop on the promising feast.

Commission your Navies, ye Nations so free,

To bear the true light to the Heathen Chinee.

Let’s give to this darkened and downtrodden nation

A touch of the blessings of Civilisation.

And our Christian ‘Maxims’ will work, you will see,

A change for the good in that Heathen Chinee.

German Eagle

Russia

France & Britain

J

Bags of salt

K Note the architecture

M

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