DIRECTIONS: Answer the YES or NO question if you agree or disagree with the following statement. Write a paragraph that explains why you agree or disagree.

A basic paragraph structure consists of at least five sentences: the topic sentence (claim), three supporting sentences (evidence), and a concluding sentence (reasoning). At this point in our process of these, it should be more

Remember that your evidence needs to be historically specific. Use names, places, dates, events. Pretend your reader (Mrs. Wilson) has no idea about history-explain your thinking fully.

Highlight your claim in yellow. Highlight your evidence in green. Highlight your conclusion in blue.

QUESTION: Should the colonists have separated from England?

(Refer to pages 298-302 if you need help.)

CIRCLE ONE: Yes No

this isnt enough info to right a whole paragraph about

Explanation:

superior technology and improved medical knowledge to foster imperialism. quinine enabled europeans

to survive tropical diseases and venture into the mosquito-infested interiors of africa and asia. the combination

of the steamboat and the telegraph enabled the western powers to increase their mobility and to quickly respond

to any situations that threatened their dominance. the rapid-fire machine gun also gave them a military advantage

and was in convincing africans and asians to accept western control. the following table summarizes the

causes of the new imperialism:

causes of new imperialism

economic military/political humanitarian/religious technological

need for markets need for military bases white man’s burden new medicine

raw materials national security spread of christianity new weapons

source of investments source of

pride—nationalism

social darwinism

(superiority of western

society)

transportation

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