Image+Bank+for+DBQs

=== Document-based questions, or DBQs, are an essential element of Social Studies assessment. Students are asked to interpret many kinds of documents in order to explain their importance to the time period being studied. This page emphasizes graphics, such as graphs, charts, photographs, drawings, etc. ===

=== This page will be added to as we find interesting images together. It will collect a lot of the images we have been coming across as we study Imperialism and the road the U.S. took toward World War I. Each image is hyper-linked to where I found it on the internet. If it's impossible to do that, I will create a link to Google Docs. I freely admit taking information from Wikipedia for background information about the images. Most of our students use Wikipedia for quick descriptions of historical events or biographical information on historical figures. I do, too. For the most part, the information is sound, and there are always links to source references at the end of each entry. ===

1. [|The Rhodes Colossus] This image is from the magazine __Punch__ (10 December 1892), a British publication, after Cecil Rhodes announced plans for a telegraph line and railroad from Cape Town to Cairo. It shows him straddling the entire continent of Africa with his feet. Rhodes said of the British, "I contend that we are the first race in the world and that the more of the world we inhabit the better it is for the human race." Rhodes was born in England, and became a businessman, mining magnate, and founder of the De Beers diamond company. He believed strongly in imperialism and colonialism, and was the founder of Rhodesia, which he named after himself. It later became the countries of Zambia and Zimbabwe.

2. Trench warfare was not an invention so much as a development of modern warfare, particularly World War I. Trenches were dug to protect troops from small arms fire and to shelter soldiers from artillery fire.