Week of April 25, 2011

Chapter 22(1), 22(2), 22(3) assigned the week before break are due by Tuesday.

Remember long term project.

Due by Friday
24(1) Building Overseas Empires (750-753) Identify the terms, people, and places. Look at the picture on page 751, what wasa a driving force behind imperialism? Look at the picture age 752, why were outnumbered European armies able to defeat African and Asian forces? Read European Conquest of Aftica (752) What is Cecil Rhodes's argument for imperialism? What is Chief Kanbongo's argument against imperialism?
Answer the three checkpoint questions in complete sentences.


24(2) The Partition of Africa (754-760)
Identify the terms, people, and places. Read Cecil Rhodes's biography on page 758, how did he become one of the world's richest men by the time he was 40? Read Menelik II's biography on page 759, how did he preserve Ethiopia's independence?
Answer the four checkpoint questions in complete sentences.

Due by next Monday (May 1, 2011)

24(4) The British Take over India 767-771 Identify the terms, people, and places. Read the infographic on the Sepoy Rebellion (768-9) Who are sepoys and why did both Muslim and Hindu sepoys revolt against Britain? Look at the pictures on railroads and trade (770) How did imperialism economically benefit India?
Answer the four checkpoint questions in complete sentences.

24(5) China and the New Imperialism (773-777) Identify the terms, people and places. Read trading opium for tea (773) Why did Lin Zexu condemn the British policy of trading opium for tea? Read the caption on page 776 on the Boxer Rebellion. Who were the Boxers and why were they discontented?
Answer the four checkpoint questions in complete sentences.