Imperialism?

On Monday you sat in groups to read through the newspaper articles you created in class last week. We asked you to come up with titles for the different collections of articles, and to explore the ways in which those articles addressed the "promises" or "problems" in the USA at the time.  We then turned our attention to four documents you read over the weekend:

• The Monroe Doctrine
• Social Darwinism
• Manifest Destiny
• The Open Door Policy

We finished class by asking you to work with your groups to identify on of the events / people from the newspaper articles back to one of these four documents.

For today you read a packet: "The Question of Annexation." In class today you were each assigned a position in regards to potential courses of action to be taken by the US in the Philippines in 1898. You finished class by writing a paragraph linking your assigned position to one of the four documents above (see a pattern?).

For Friday you are reading and annotating the "Epilogue" in the packet you've been working with and "Just War Theory"  in the packet we gave out at the end of class today: - see the calendar for the focus of your journal response.