Cookie Policy

Our website uses cookies to understand content and feature usage to drive site improvements over time. To learn more, review our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.

Experiencing Colonialism

Driving Question: How did colonized people respond to colonial rule?

Colonialism wasn’t experienced the same way everywhere. Empires used a variety of strategies to enforce their rule and expand their reach. In the face of it all, individuals and communities found ways to preserve their identity, resist control, and adapt to survive.

Learning Objectives

  1. Examine the different direct and indirect strategies used to resist colonialism.
  2. Assess a case study of how colonialism affected Ghana, both historically and today.
  3. Practice quick-sourcing to evaluate how Indigenous communities responded to imperial expansion.

Vocab Terms:

  • colonialism
  • color line
  • consciousness
  • indigenous
  • racism
  • resistance
  • segregated
STEP 1

Opener: Experiencing Colonialism

STEP 2

Anti-Imperialism

Challenging colonial power was no easy task, and there wasn’t just one way to do it. People and communities under imperial rule responded with protest, adaptation, negotiation, and even rebellion.

Experiencing Colonialism: Through a Ghanaian Lens External link

What was it like to live as a colonial subject? Of course, there many differing experiences, but we can get some answers by looking closely at Ghana as a case study.

Key Ideas

As this video progresses, key ideas will be introduced to invoke discussion.
STEP 3

Responding to Colonization

Explore how colonized people navigated life under empire by balancing old and new identities. Then trace how labor and resistance changed alongside colonial rule.

STEP 5

Closer: Experiencing Colonialism