This page focuses on the requirements developed by the College Board for the fifth unit of AP Modern World History. Below you will find each of the following:
- Rationales for Imperialism
- Focus on ideological concepts that led to the new wave of imperialism in the 19th century
- State Expansion
- Focus on imperial attempts to gain access to more territory by the major industrial powers, both through treaties and through warfare
- Indigenous Responses to State Expansion
- Focus on the development of nationalism in colonial territories and the resulting rebellions
- Global Economic Development
- Focus on the connection between imperialism and industrialization
- Economic Imperialism
- Focus on the economic control of markets across Asia and Latin America by Industrialized states
- Causes of Migration in an Interconnected World
- Focus on the changes to local and regional economies caused by imperialism, as well as the role transportation innovations had on migration
- Effects of Migration
- Focus on the gendered nature of migration, the development of ethnic enclaves, and the racist responses to migration patterns
Rationales for Imperialism
Theme: Cultural Developments & Interactions
Learning Objective
Explain how ideologies contributed to the development of imperialism from 1750 to 1900.
Success on this standard will simply be having students recognize how specific racial and political ideologies helped to justify European Imperialism. It's a good idea to focus on primary sources for this standard. |
Must Know Content
Several ideologies developed to justify imperialism, including:
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- ScholarBlogs: The Philosophy of Colonialism: Civilization, Christianity, & Commerce
- Argumentative piece on the Civilizing Mission that developed as a result of imperial conquest
- Khan Academy: Social Darwinism in the Gilded Age
- Another good piece from Khan Academy, this one focusing on the US
State Expansion
Theme: Governance
Learning Objective
Compare processes by which state power shifted in various parts of the world from 1750 to 1900.
Mapping activities are good idea with this standard. You should also provide your students with a few examples of warfare - based imperialism, diplomatic imperialism, and settler colonies; any one of these might show up on the AP Test and examples are key. Also provide specific examples of territories lost and gained by the old and new powers. |
Must Know Content
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- Smithsonian Art Museum: America's Manifest Destiny
- Decent amount of art with contextual explanation of Manifest Destiny
- Asia for Educators: Key Points across East Asia, Imperialism & War
- Nice piece that details both Chinese and Japanese experiences in the late modern and early contemporary period
- Pacific Rivals: The United States' Pacific Expansion to 1898
- Nice piece on the American expansion into the Pacific
- Britannica: Colonial Rule of the Pacific
- Encyclopedic piece on the development of colonial rule across the Pacific
Indigenous Responses to State Expansion
Theme: Governance
Learning Objective
Explain how and why internal and external factors have influenced the process of state building from 1750 to 1900.
As with everything, students need examples for this standard. This is a relatively easy one to use secondary sources with and to develop a sense of historiography. |
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Anti - imperial resistance was caused by:
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Global Economic Development
Theme: Humans and the Environment
Learning Objective
Explain how various environmental factors contributed to the development of the global economy from 1750 to 1900.
This is a relatively easy one to discuss, it is also a good one to find effective charts and graphs to interpret as your students continue to develop their skills. It can also be a good opportunity to have students make connections between the previous unit and this one. |
Must Know Content
Rapid urbanization and factory development led to:
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Economic Imperialism
Theme: Economic Systems
Learning Objective
Explain how various economic factors contributed to the development of the global economy from 1750 to 1900.
This one is very straight forward. You can find plenty of information on this concept and even branch into APUSH to get some good primary and secondary sources and even some high quality political cartoons. Feel free to venture into the early twentieth century a little but when discussing the US, but don't go too far past Teddy. |
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Industrialized states & their private businesses exploited primarily
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Causes of Migration in an Interconnected World
Theme: Humans and the Environment
Learning Objective
Explain how various environmental factors contributed to the development of varied patterns of migration from 1750 to 1900.
This is another example of where you can connect the prior unit and the prior standard to this specific unit. Have students draw examples of migrations and explain how transportation innovations allowed their movement. Be sure to also provide examples of groups that tended to return to their homelands. |
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Theme: Economic Systems
Learning Objective
Explain how various economic factors contributed to the development of varied patterns of migration from 1750 to 1900.
This portion focuses on labor specifically, especially the causes behind people migrating to either find work or being coerced to work. |
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The global capitalist economy utilized:
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Effects of Migration
Theme: Social Interactions & Organizations
Learning Objective
Explain how and why new patterns of migration affected society from 1750 to 1900.
Several factors are important here for students; they must recognize the role that women played in home countries after men migrated, they have to understand the nature of ethnic enclaves with mass migration, and they also need to have clear examples of racist and prejudiced concepts that emerged in receiving countries. |
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