Describe What You See in the Placard Which cause/s of New Imperialism does the Placard represent?
Explain Why You Chose the Cause/s?

What is in the Placard

It is a picture of Cecil Rhodes holding up a cable that seems to connect the Cape Colony in South Africa to the British protectorate of Egypt.

Cause ⇒ Need for Raw Materials, New Markets and Nationalism

Cecil John Rhodes was a British politician and business man who wanted to build a railway that would connect the Port Said in Egypt to Cape Town in the Cape colony of South Africa.

There were several reasons he wanted this:

roosevelt believed that in light of the country's recent military successes, it was unnecessary to use force to achieve foreign policy goals, so long as the military could threaten force. this belief, and his strategy of “speaking softly and carrying a big stick,” shaped much of roosevelt's foreign policy.