December 2

In your sourcebooks, pretend that you are someone living in any of the nations or places that we have encountered during Imperialism.
How would you feel about the presence of other nations within your borders? Write a poem based on an actual scenario USING words that we have learned so far (Open Door Policy, Spheres of Influence, etc)

Examples that you can use
1) A witness to the Boxer Rebellion (or someone who took part)
2) A citizen living the explosion of the U.S.S. Maine or your impressions of the Spanish American War as a whole
3) The U.S. annexation of Hawaii

Example:
It was June of 1900
These wretched foreigners invade our shores, that they did
Why are they here, you say?
To show us how to do things their way!
Trains, rails, and weapons: they make us buy
Even their religion, their missionaries say if we don’t accept, we will die
From Shanghai to Beijing, their spheres of influences spread and spread
It was too much and before I knew it, anger and hatred filled my head
The Open Door Policy of the United States was all I could bear
It shows another nation stealing our resources, if they dare
I gathered my group of Boxer and we hatched a plan
To rid our mighty homeland of these people from a far off land

QUIZ next Tuesday. Topics to study are imperialism in China, spheres of influence, Open Door Policy, Boxer Rebellion, Big Stick Policy, Theodore Roosevelt, Panama Canal
We will finish going over topics this Thursday. Quiz will have 8 multiple choice questions, 3 identifications, 1 DBQ part.