Ch+17+Imperialism

1. When should one country become involved in the affairs of another? 2. Is it the right and responsibility of the US to promote its values around the world? 3. At what point is diplomacy no longer the better tactic than military engagement?
 * Essential Questions for this Unit:**

Introducing Imperialism as a concept: What was imperialism? How did European expansionist ambitions influence the US? What does this French political cartoon tell us about the European attitudes toward other parts of the world?

Video clip from MediaRich Learning on the Spanish-American War

Spanish American War websites: USS Maine photographs Photographs of the destroyed Spanish fleet in Manila Bay

Spanish-American War Map Activity 1. Go to www.scribblemaps.com 2. You do not need to log in or create an account. Simply create a map. 3. Play around with the tool bar so that you can see what you can do to label and draw on maps. 4. Using the 'scribble' tool, find and label Cuba, the Philippines, Puerto Rico, Guam, Hawaii, and the city, Washington DC. You may have to zoom in and out to find those places on the map. 5. Using the links above, save a photograph of the USS Maine and one of the Spanish fleet in Manila Bay. Using the pushpin tool, post the picture to your scribblemap in the correct location. Write a sentence summarizing the battle at each location. 6. Embed your scribblemap to your wikispaces page. You will need to save the map (go to menu in the left of the tool bar), create a map name and description, create a password (that you will remember!). Then, get the embed code. On your wikispaces page, click on EDIT PAGE, then WIDGET in the tool bar, select MAPS, then GOOGLEmaps, paste in the embed code. HIT SAVE!!!!

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Spanish American War Timeline: Using Chapter 17, section 2, create a timeline using key events and people in both Cuba and the Philippines: @https://bubbl.us/