Unit prompt
Unit:
Industrialism and the Race for Empire 1700-1914
Purpose: One Big Idea
The Congress of Vienna put in place a peace throughout Europe that allowing the conditions for industry to
flourish. Europeans once again focused on business but with an added since of pride in their own nation. The
goal, to create a nation with the largest industrial complex in the world. However, only a few nations were able
to gain access to the resources need to build an industrial society creating a divide with in global society.
Social Studies Standard
SS-HS-2.1.1 Students will explain how belief systems,
knowledge, technology and behavior patterns define
cultures and help to explain historical perspectives and
events in the modern world (1500 A.D. to present) and
United States (Reconstruction to present). DOK 2
Relationship to Unit
The development of industry in Europe and the
United States leads to the search for more resources
to fuel their economies. For Europeans, that requires
the extraction of resources in other areas of the
world do to the lack of resources in Europe. The
search and extraction of resources leads to the
takeover of foreign lands and cultures by European
aggressors.
SS-HS-5.1.1 Students will use a variety of tools (e.g.,
To understand the effects of the Industrial revolution
and the age of imperialism, one must look at how
primary and secondary sources, data, artifacts) to
analyze perceptions and perspectives (e.g., gender, race, human emotion evolved to cope with the fast
changing world of industry. The study of industrial
region, ethnic group, nationality, age, economic status,
psychology, philosophy, and culture explains can
religion, politics, geographic factors) of people and
explain how different forms of governments and
historical events in the modern world (1500 A.D. to
economies developed in different parts of the world.
present) and United States History (Reconstruction to
present).
SS-HS-5.1.2 Students will analyze how history is a series
of connected events shaped by multiple cause and
effect relationships, tying past to present.
SS-HS-5.3.3 Students will analyze how an Age of
Revolution brought about changes in science, thought,
government and industry (e.g., Newtonian physics, free
trade principles, rise of democratic principles,
development of the modern state) that shaped the
modern world, and evaluate the long range impact of
these changes on the modern world. DOK 3
The search for raw materials to fuel the industrial
complex of the western world set off a change of
events that let to the rise and fall of nations, the
destruction of cultures, and a fight to save the native
way of life.
The age of industry brought on a wave of scientific
developments that shaped the modern world. For
example in the 1890’s the main form of
transportation was the horse. 30 years later the
main form of transportation was the automobile.
Only 20 years later, humans are flying rockets. The
rate of change creates a new global culture that
shapes modern politics and economics.
Lesson Title
Early Industry
Main Ideas
1. The Causes of the Industrial Revolution
2. Describing key inventions that furthered the industrial revolution
1. Social and economic effects of industrialization
2. Harsh working and living conditions within industrialized cities.
3. Describe industrial growth in the United States.
1. Analyze the effects of industrialization on the rest of the world.
2. Explain the origins and main concepts of socialism
3. Describe the reform movements of the 1800's
1. Explain why industry led to the study of Human behavior in a Scientific Way
2. Trace advances in science and technology
Industrial Life
Industrial Philosophy
Industrial Psychology
Motives of Imperialism
1. Analyze the motives of European colonizers
2. Describe factors allowing the Europeans to control Africa
3. Explain the patterns of imperialist management
Europe vs Ottoman Empire
1. Analyze the decline of the Ottoman Empire
2. Describe the Crimean War
3. Explain the division of the Ottoman Empire
1. Analyze the British takeover of India
2. Describe positive and negative features of colonialism in India
3. Describe nationalist movements in India
1. Describe why Southeast Asia was important to imperialist
2. Explain the involvement of the United States in the Pacific
3. Analyze the impact of imperialism on third world nations.
The British Raj
American Imperialism
Lesson Title
Early Industry
Quiz
10 Questions
Points
10
Industrial Life
10 Questions
10
Industrial Philosophy
10 Questions
10
Industrial Psychology
Motives of Imperialism
5 Questions
10 Questions
5
10
Europe vs. Ottoman Empire
5 questions
5
The British Raj
American Imperialism
5 questions
5 questions
5
5
Assessments
Formative (quizzes, worksheets, ect)
Summative (Unit Exam)
ACT Preparation Reading Assignments
Total:
Homework
Daily sheet/ Reading Guide/ Become a
Millionaire
Daily Sheet/ Reading Guide/”Industrial
Life”
Daily Sheet/ Reading Guide/ Communist
Manifesto
Daily Sheet/ Reading Guide/unconscious
Daily Sheet/Reading Guide/ Social
Darwinism
Daily sheet/Reading Guide/ Conquerors:
Suleyman the Magnificent
Daily Sheet/Sepoy Mutiny
Daily Sheet/Reading Guide/
Points
170
50
40
260
Points
35
10
10
10
10
10
15
10
World Civilization Daily Sheet
Unit:
Industrialism and the Race
for Empire 1700-1914
Lesson:
Motives of Imperialism
Section:
Pages:
Date:
Purpose of the Lesson:
Industrialization spurred on great ambitions in many European nations. However, in order to maintain and
improve an industrial society great amounts of resources were required. Industrialized nations immediately
fell into competition with each other searching for raw materials to fuel their mechanized engines.
Colonization took on a new form in the 19th century in which industrialized nations sought and conquered
foreign lands and enslaved their people in order to ensure the further growth of the industrialized world.
Objectives:
1. Analyze the motives of European colonizers
2. Describe factors allowing the Europeans to control Africa
3. Explain the patterns of imperialist management
I Can . . .
Answer the I can as if it were a question
Describe the purpose of the Berlin Conference
and explain its impact on African national
borders.
Discuss how assimilation and paternalism was
used through imperialism.
Explain the theory of social Darwinism and
explain its connection to the age of
imperialism.
Essential Question – Answer in no less than 3 sentences
What were the motives that drove Europeans to colonize Africa?
Terms
Imperialism
Racism
Social Darwinism
Berlin Conference
Shaka
Boer War
Paternalism
Assimilation
Menelik II
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Procedure:
Day 1
1. Fill out the daily sheet then begin reading the assigned pages while attendance is taken.
2. Class discussion on the objectives and I can statements: How do you think they are related to each other?
3. Class lecture/discussion on the motives of imperialism
4. Discuss possible answers to the Essential Question
5. Class work/Homework – I can Statements, and Vocabulary.
Day 2
1. Discuss the ‘I can” Statements and their relationship to the objectives.
2. Complete assignment – vocabulary and reading guide
4. Answer Essential question through a class discussion
Day 3
1. Check off work from Lesson 1
2. Lesson Quiz
3. ACT preparation Reading assignment
Assignments:
Points
Daily Sheet/Reading Guide/ Vocabulary
Lesson Quiz
ACT Preparation Reading Assignment
10
10
5
Due Date
Social Darwinism
Prompt:
The idea of "social Darwinism" originated in the class stratification of England, and has often been used
as a general term for any evolutionary argument about the biological basis of human differences.
Drawing on social Darwinism, supporters of the 20th-century Imperialist movement sought to "improve"
human genetic stock, much as farmers do in agriculture.
Directions
1. Read the following information and answer the questions that are in the reading.
Rubric
1. To receive credit all of the questions in the reading must be answered on a separate sheet of
paper and labeled according to what section of the reading the questions originate.
Social Darwinism:
Reason or Rationalization?
The following activity asks you to evaluate the theory of Social Darwinism. Read the activity and think
carefully about the questions it asks. You may write down your answers or discuss them with your
classmates. See the bottom of this page for a chance to publish your answers on the World Wide Web.
Although economic interests spurred the rush of expansion, other factors caused it as well. Many people,
including Teddy Roosevelt, believed in America's duty to "elevate uncivilized peoples." European powers
claimed the same duty as they colonized Africa and Asia. Others pointed to the theoretical work of
Charles Darwin to justify the cause of imperialism.
As a young man, Charles Darwin joined a British scientific expedition aboard the H.M.S. Beagle. As the
Beagle journeyed around the world, Darwin collected specimens of plants and animals. He found fossils
of extinct animals that resembled living animals, and he noticed many variations within the same species.
After returning from his voyage, Darwin spent twenty years studying his specimens. In 1859 Darwin
published On the Origin of the Species by the Means of Natural Selection, a book that explained his new
theory.
In his theory of natural selection, Darwin made the following observations:
1. The resources of an environment are limited. Creatures produce more offspring than can
possibly survive. Members of a species must compete for limited resources and for survival.
2. No two members of a species are exactly alike. Each organism contains an individual
combination of inherited traits. Some traits are useful for survival; other traits are not.
3. Organisms that have useful traits reproduce in greater numbers. Their offspring inherit the
traits. Organisms with unfavorable traits eventually die off. The fittest survive.
4. Nature selects different traits at different times. Varieties within a species gradually create a
new species.
The publication of this theory started a sensational controversy. Many writers applied Darwin's theory to
sociology. They developed a controversial theory called Social Darwinism. Many people, from Karl Marx
to Captain Mahan to Adolf Hitler, employed Social Darwinism in their arguments. How can people with
vastly different viewpoints use the same argument to defend their views?
Read the following basic argument for Social Darwinism. Does it adhere to the principles of Darwin's
theory? Why or why not?
Within the human species, nations are locked in a struggle for survival. Everywhere, civilized nations are
supplanting barbarous nations. Advanced civilization, obviously, has inherited valuable traits from its
ancestors. Underdeveloped cultures, except in hostile climates, will soon die off. Therefore, natural
order obligates powerful, civilized nations to appropriate the limited resources of the weak.
Josiah Strong, an influential American clergyman, wrote the following argument for expansion in 1897. Is
it logical? How does it differ from the previous passage? Does it follow Darwin's line of reasoning?
The two great ideas of mankind are Christianity and civil liberty. The Anglo-Saxon civilization is the great
representative of these two great ideas. Add to this the fact of his rapidly increasing strength in modern
times, and we have a demonstration of his destiny.
There can be no doubt that North America is to be the great home of Anglo-Saxon power. It is not
unlikely that before the close of the next century, this race will outnumber all other civilized races of the
earth. But the widening waves of migration meet today on its Pacific coast. The unoccupied arable lands
of the world are limited and will soon be taken.
The time is coming when the pressure of population will . . . force the final competition of races. The
United States will assert itself, having developed aggressive traits necessary to impress its institutions
upon mankind. Can anyone doubt that the result of this competition will be the survival of the fittest?
Reading Guide – Motives of Imperialism
Directions: Answer the following questions with complete sentences
1. Describe Africa before European intervention.
2. Describe the 3 factors that drove imperialism
a.
b.
c.
3. Do you think Social Darwinism led to imperialism? Why? Why not?
4. Explain 4 factors that enabled Europeans to establish empires.
a.
b.
c.
d.
5. What rule was established at the Berlin Conference?
6. Why was the Boer War significant?
7. List and explain the four forms of imperialism and give an example of each.
a.
b.
c.
d.
8. Explain indirect control and direct control.
a.
b.
9. Why were most African resistance movements unsuccessful?
10. Describe the impact of colonialism on Africa and the rest of the world.