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Warm up: Be prepared to answer the following question in 2 minutes.

Warm up: Be prepared to answer the following question in 2 minutes. If three robbers with guns entered your house, would you 1. fight them. 2. Cooperate with them so that they would not hurt you or your family. 3. Call the police and wait for assistance.

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Warm up: Be prepared to answer the following question in 2 minutes.

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  1. Warm up: Be prepared to answer the following question in 2 minutes. If three robbers with guns entered your house, would you 1. fight them. 2. Cooperate with them so that they would not hurt you or your family. 3. Call the police and wait for assistance.

  2. Warm-up: You have a test tomorrow. Take 5 minutes to quiz/review with your table group. • Kalahari Desert • Atlas Mountains • Sahara Desert • Sahel • Sustainable Development • Subsistence Farming • Industrialization • Colonialism • Desertification • Aswan High Dam • Standard of Living

  3. Reminders • Check grades in Skyward • Pick up graded work. • Use QR readers to access website. • Mini Assessment Friday! • Vocabulary (sustainable development, developed country, etc) • Maps • Physical Geography Notes • Colonialism

  4. Colonialism in Africa • Review: Portuguese, Slaves, Raw Materials. • Europeans were able to conquer much of Africa due to their advances in medicine and technology. • Throughout the period of colonialism (1880-1960s) Africans lives were deeply affected by European control and they were regularly confronted with the question of how to respond.

  5. Today we will explore Nigerian perspectives on colonialism. After assuming the role of a Nigerian during British colonialism you will create an independence rally poster that illustrates your views about colonialism.

  6. Colonial Event A • Read Event A description. • Read the Critical Thinking Question. • As a group determine your best course of action. • Be able to justify your response. • 8 minutes.

  7. Event A • Most Nigerian groups traded enslaved Africans. (1) • A few groups carried out slave raids (2) • A few groups refused to take part in trade. In Nigeria the lure of wealth and the military necessity of gun technology forced successful kingdoms succumb to slave trade. Africans traded their servants, prisoners of war and criminal to acquire slaves.

  8. Colonial Event B • Read Event B description. • Read the Critical thinking Question • As a group determine your best course of action. • Be able to justify your response. • 8 minutes.

  9. Event B Akitoye signed the treaty (2) because it returned him to the throne of Lagos. He died in 1853 and the British appointed Chief Dosumnu as the new king. Fighting in the Nigerian interior led the British to intervene on behalf of African groups allied to them. Eventually the British decided that peace could be achieved if they took over control of the area.

  10. Colonial Event C • Read Event C descriptions. • Read the Critical thinking question • As a group determine your best course of action. • Be able to justify your response. • 8 minutes.

  11. Event C Jaja surrendered to the British (1) no bout in hopes of saving the people in his city. In Accra, he was tried and convicted of blocking highways of trade. He was deported and died four years later.

  12. Colonial Event D • Read Event D descriptions. • Read the Critical thinking question • As a group determine your best course of action. • Be able to justify your response. • 8 minutes.

  13. Event D • Chief Oluwa went to England in 1920 and appealed his case to the British Privy Council. How won the case and was awarded the sum of 7500 pounds paid by the embarrassed British colonial government in Lagos.

  14. Colonial Event E • Read Event E description. • Read the Critical Thinking Question. • As a group determine your best course of action. • Be able to justify your response. • 8 minutes.

  15. Event E • In the town of Aba, women from neighboring villages gathered in the streets to protest the proposed wife tax. The demonstration turned violent, and they ransacked a number of colonial buildings. British troops killed 26 women during the confrontation. The British eventually chose not to tax women.

  16. Colonialism Acrostic Poem • Use the word “COLONY” to create an acrostic poem that describes (what was it ?)and judges (How do you feel about colonialism). • Each letter should represent a statement, but just a word. • You may use information from you events if necessary. • Example C Ownership of other countries. L O N Y

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