The Industrial Age 1815-1914 • • METHOD 2
Stage 1 - Introduction: presenting the documents
Similarities: Both documents deal with British & American colonial expansion, in the Industrial Age 1815-1914, at the time of the 2nd IR, at the end of the 19th century.
Differences: The 1st document is a cartoon, an engraving showing the white man's burden's by Victor Gillam & published in Judge magazine on 1 April 1899. The 2nd document is a speech about the March of the Flag by Albert J. Beveridge delivered on Sept. 16, 1898.
Announce structure: In a 1st part I’ll focus on the justifications for colonisation & in a 2nd part I’ll describe colonial expansion.
Stage 2 - Analysing the documents
DESCRIBING - What you see (docs) |
INTERPRETING - What you know (notions) |
1. The justifications using doc.1 & doc.2 §1 + end of §3 |
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Social reason. Engraving: John Bull & Uncle Sam carrying native peoples climbing rocks engraved with “barbarism, etc” all negative to reach the woman at the top = civilization. |
Colonialism (def) |
2. The expansion with doc.1 & doc.2 §2 & §3 |
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British expansion. Engraving: African, Chinese, Arab, Egyptian and Indian men + speech P2 : + SA + new colonies = worldwide empire |
- Colonisation (def) |
Stage 3 - Concluding
Assess docs (reliable/biased justified): To conclude, these documents are reliable as we have their full references and they are biased as they both promote colonisation, show the coloniser point of view.
Sum-up ideas Both docs give the economic & social justifications for the expansion of the British empire and the birth of the US empire.
+ Open We may wonder where the British emigrated: the USA or their empire?