1. Effects of Imperialism and Colonialism in Africa
SS7H1.a Explain how the European partitioning across Africa contributed to conflict, civil war, and artificial political boundaries.

2. Bell-Ringer
Respond to the following prompt in your social studies notebook:
Imagine you are the king or queen of a country. A new, unexplored land has been discovered in the middle of the ocean. 1.) What reasons would you have to start a colony on this new land? 2.) What problems do you think colonizing a new land might cause? 3.) Do you think colonizing land is the right thing to do?

3. “Effects of Colonialism” Reading
We will read aloud “Effects of Colonialism.” Make sure you are paying attention as you may be called on!

4. Station Activity
Each station has a different map and different questions.
You are to answer every question with your assigned group in complete sentences.
You will ONLY have 10 minutes at each station, so make sure you are working hard on the assignment and not talking about anything other than this assignment.
You will move to the next station when I tell you all to move.

5. Impact of Partitioning
Positives –
Schools, Hospitals, and Roads built.
Berlin Conference set an end date for slave trade.
**Negatives –
Long-term conflicts, tribes did not have control over countries, land taken and given to Europeans to farm, wars, riots, protests, starvation, diseases, Africans forced into labor.
Europeans partitioned the land without thinking of African ethnic and tribal history, so families and tribes were separated, wars were fought between tribes that used to be friendly.
While most of Africa is independent, conflicts from the partitioning occur to this day.

6. Closing
In your notebook, “tweet” what you have learned about the effects of Imperialism using 140 characters and key vocabulary terms.