Empire and Its Costs: Global Imperialism, 1850-1914: Social Studies Unit 5, Grade 10 (Letters & Devotion)

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Empire and Its Costs: Global Imperialism, 1850-1914 is Unit 5 of Patterns of Power: A World History Survey, c. 1200-Present (Part 2) (Grade 10), the Letters & Devotion Social Studies course, complete in one printable PDF: 9 lessons, the unit check-up and the answer key, 94 pages.

• The three mechanisms of imperial control: concession, protectorate, direct rule
• The rhetorical function of ‘mutual benefit’ framing in colonial justification versus extraction as an economic mechanism
• Selective emphasis and omission in colonizer versus colonized accounts of the same event
• The Berlin Conference: stated purpose and actual effect
• The temporal and causal relationship between economic/political imperial expansion and social Darwinist justification
• Competing causal explanations for imperialism (economic, nationalist, ideological) and the distinction between necessary and contributing causes
• Transfer of the concession/protectorate/direct-rule framework to an unstudied contemporary case
• Categories of anti-imperial resistance strategy and their conditions for success
• The economic or ideological mechanism underlying a specific paired colonial policy source set, expressed in Unit 4 vocabulary

Every lesson is written for a parent with no teaching background: it opens with a short script to read aloud, names the specific wrong idea a student is likely to reach for and how to correct it, and closes with a practice sheet you may copy for your household. Scripture references are King James Version throughout. Black-and-white, 8.5 x 11 in. The whole year of this course is also in this store as a single book.

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