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American Imperialism DBQ and DBQ Essay Organizer

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Will Pulgarin
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DBQs are an excellent way to hit most of the Common Core standards in your class. If there is one activity that encapsulates the requirements of the Common Core - the DBQ is it!

Prompt: What were the motives for American Imperialism and what problem(s) arose with these newly acquired territories?

Here is a list of the documents:

1. Sea Power, Alfred T. Mahan (1890)

2. Encyclopedia Britannia, Excerpt about Open Door Notes

3. Rudyard Kipling, The White Man's Burden (1899)

4. Emilio Aguinaldo, Central Filipino Committee, LETTER TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, (1899).

5. Article VII of the Platt Amendment of 1903.

6. February 1901, "To the Person Sitting in Darkness," by Mark Twain

This product comes with a DBQ Essay Organizer and Essay Rubric.

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6 pages
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Teaching Duration
2 days
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Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources, attending to such features as the date and origin of the information.
Determine the central ideas or information of a primary or secondary source; provide an accurate summary of how key events or ideas develop over the course of the text.
Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
Draw evidence from informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.

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