Research

INSTRUCTIONS: You will research and read about the experience of colonialism in a place you selected. Organize your research and inquiry to gather historical evidence of specific impacts and effects of imperialism/colonialism on people using three frames used in our class. Summarize your findings in two paragraphs. Use in-text citations to reference your sources. BE SPECIFIC! Find historical examples and be sure to identify ones from many experiences (those colonized as well as the colonizer, if possible). List the sources you used in an APA formatted bibliography at the end of the worksheet. Try to use at least one primary source. Name: Topic Selected: Communities How did the experience of Imperialism/Colonialism affect how communities (groups that share something) lived, expressed, or organized themselves? What changed in families, cities, states, religious institutions, clubs, political parties, governments, cultures, ethnicities, racial groups, etc.? Summarize your findings in two paragraphs: Networks How did the experience of Imperialism/Colonialism affect how things or ideas moved? What networks were created, modified, or harmed that moved goods, natural resources, crops, animals, pathogens, people, ideas, technologies, religion, science, philosophies, etc.? Summarize your findings in two paragraphs: Production & Distribution How did the experience of Imperialism/Colonialism affect the ways things were made or accessed? What changed in how goods, resources, and/or services were extracted, made, bought, sold, or traded? Summarize your findings in two paragraphs: Bibliography Choose one Great British colonialism in India (1700-1900s) French colonialism in Senegal (late 1800s – 1958) Great British colonialism in Australia (1988-1901) Portuguese colonialism in Brazil (1500s-1815)