Imperialism+Project


 * Imperialism Project: 100pts**

Essential Question: What were the positive and negative effects of Imperialism in developing countries in the age of Imperialism (late 1800s) and today (modern era).

Your job will be to research a country in Asia, Africa, or South America, these are assigned; you will answer the following questions.

1. What was the state of the country before the age of imperialism? 2. What are the resources, geography, climate, languages, religion, life expectancy, literacy rate, HIV infection rate, gross domestic product. 3. Identify which western country or countries colonized this country during the age of imperialism. 4. What did the western country do there? Resources harvested, infrastructure created (roads, rxr, etc.), list of positive and negative effects 5. When and how was independence gained? 6. What happened after independence? 7. Identify which western countries or international companies are using the resources of this country to make a profit today. 8. What issues/problems are present in the country today? 9. What reforms do you suggest to fix these issues today? How would you help to stabilize and modernize the country? (This is the hardest one…your opinion, but these are really hard issues to tackle) 10. At least 7 visuals are required, current or historical images, maps, google maps, etc. are srongly suggested. 11. This information will be presented in a 5 minute power point with an explanation of the data you gathered to answer q1-8. The last slide of your ppt will be a bibliography of resources that were used in your research.

Slide 1: q1, state of the country before the age of imperialism? Slide 2: q3, the western country that colonized and what they did there. Slide 3: q4 (+ bit of q2), list positive and negative impacts of colonization (pro-con) Slide 4: q5, independence, when and how, who gets to vote in new govt? Slide 5: q7, who has power there now? Why/how? Slide 6: q8, what are the issues today? - literacy, gdp, lots of stuff from q2. Slide 7: q9, your suggestions on how to fix the situation Slide 8: Bibliography (MLA format) You may use up to 10 slides, insert extras in where you need them.

For online resources start with the ciafactbook.gov and then google your country + BBC for the British version of PBS. You may not cite wikipedia, about.com, wikianswers, ask.com, or any other tertiary source that is not at all reliable. Please look for .org, .gov, .edu etc.