<p>hey, can you guys help me out with this DBQ, I don't really know where to start, also, what would be an efficient way to organize these paragraphs? Thank you so much!</p>
<p>Analyze the factors that influenced the Senate in ratifying the Treaty of Paris in 1899 and assess their relative significance. Your analysis and assessment should take into account the complexities and/or contradictions presented by the evidence.</p>
<p>(I know your supposed to incorporate the evidence, but if you didn't have it where would you start?)</p>
<p>ugh. i suck at writing DBQs but i'm miraculously good at writing essays (the ones with no evidence to back you up wher eyou go just from your knowledge). i would try writing it like an essay, with no documents and go with the flow.</p>
<p>good luck, i know how you must feel (i absolutely despise apush)</p>
<p>Although I dont know the answer (I really should know it...), a good way to organize the paragraphs would be to think of 3 different factors that influenced the Senate to ratify the Treaty, then devote a paragraph to each.</p>
<p>We just finished that. We have to do a DBQ too on that time period. Don't try to write an essay without focusing a whole lot on the documents, because I did that once, and even though I had a great essay, with plenty of information, I got a horrible grade for not incorporating the documents that much. Plus it is a DOCUMENT based question, so you have to weave in the documents somehow.</p>
<p>Okay, so the Treaty of Paris in 1899 was when America got Guam & Puerto Rico. And the Philippines were a problem because they just couldn't give it back to Spain after decades of misrule, but they couldn't take it like an imperialistic nation. I don't have my book right now, but I remember the missionaries said it was their duty to take the Philippines to christianize them. And I think ecnomists thought they could benefit by taking the Philippines because they would have more access to trade in the Far East. And popular public opinion wanted to take the Philippines. If you have the American Pageant book, there should be more info there. Good luck :)</p>
<p>DBQs are easy. Look at your documents, see two or three complexities. Then pretend you tought them up on your own. Write them into your intro, them devote a paragraph to each complexity, finding quotes to back you up.</p>
<p>Dont just write an essay. If you dont add in the documents, you'll get a bad grade.</p>
<p>American imperialists modeling British imperialists (read Rudyard Kipling's "Take Up The White Man's Burden,) see it as our responsibility to help our "little brown brothers" in the Philipines</p>
<p>McKinley is a weak president who bows to the will of the people. And if the people want the islands, he will do whatever is in his power to obtain them.</p>
<p>If we didn't take the islands as our protectorates, it is very likely the Germans would have seized them...remember the Germans are starting to assemble an impressive naval force.</p>
<p>Spanish atrocities/the reason we got involved and employed Aguinaldo to help us was to get rid of the Spanish we worked so hard to propogandize against.</p>
<p>If we controlled the Philippines, we also controlled the sugar market there, which was a big thing (coupled with the seizure of Hawaii and its resources)</p>
<p>We could finally break into some of the very closed cirlces of Asian trade. Would increase trade flow with the East Indies and perhaps even with China (this is the era of Hay's "open door" and after the main ports in China had been given up to Western powers after the Opium Wars.) Also, after the Meiji restoration, the Japanese are having an industrial upswing so it could bring us closer to their markets.
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<p>Hehe. Thanks. I actually struggle a bit in that class, but I love history so I work hard. We just finished American foreign policy immediately preceding WWII. I am so surprised I remember anything from last week, let alone last month!</p>