World History AP
Chapter 29 Tropical Dependencies and Settler Colonies Presentation Assignment
Due: Wednesday October 2 OR Friday October 4
50 Points (Papers, Projects, and Presentations)
The purpose of this assignment is for you and your classmates to formulate answers the
questions below. This presentation should be between 5 and 6 minutes Use the textbook
as your primary reference as well as other sources – encyclopedias, academic websites,
books, etc. Keep in mind that your classmates will be taking notes during your
presentation, so speak slowly, clearly, and craft an organized presentation. You should
make 1-2 PowerPoint slides (no animation) to accompany what you are saying. They
should have one image to compliment your text and no more than 5 bullet-pointed key
words. An example of what I am look for is below. Be sure to rehearse the presentation
before you give it and time it to make sure that you are within the parameters.
Colonial Regimes and Social Hierarchies in Tropical Dependencies
1. How did Europeans refer to groups of African people? What does this term tell us
about European attitudes toward the African people?
2. Where did most European who lived in Africa live? How did the Europeans set up
colonial governments? Who was in charge? How was migration involved?
3. What was the nature of education in Africa? How was this different from education in
India or Java? What was the long-term consequence of this for Africa?
Changing Social Relations among Colonizers and Colonized
4. Describe interactions between native Africans and European colonizers in Africa.
What role did European women play in these interactions? European men?
5. What is Social Darwinism? How is it connected to white racial supremacy? How did
these two beliefs, Social Darwinism and white racial supremacy, affect how colonists
interacted with natives?
Shifts in Methods of Economic Extraction
6. What “incentives” did Westerners give locals to produce more and increase exports
from their countries? Please discuss the situation in the Belgian Congo specifically as an
example to illustrate the question above.
7. What improvements to infrastructure did the Europeans make to African countries?
What motivated them to do this? Why did these improvements do little to help the lives
of natives?
White Settler Colonies in South Africa and the Pacific
8. What is the difference between a “tropical dependency” and a “settler colony”? Give
examples of both. How did the settler societies of the 19th century differ from those of the
18th century? Give a reason for these differences.
South Africa
9. When did the Dutch establish their first colony in South Africa? Who were the Boers?
Who were the coloreds?
When did the British arrive in South Africa? Name the differences between the British
and the Boers? How did these conflicts lead to tension between these groups of people?
10. What was the Great Trek? Who did the Boers find living in the interior of the
African continent? How did they interact with these people? How did these interactions
differ from pervious interactions with Africans?
11. Where did the British establish their major outpost? Where did the Boers establish
their two republics? What was found in the Orange Free State that changed relations
between the British and the Dutch? Who was Cecil Rhoads? What was the Anglo-Boer
War about? Who emerged as the victor?
Pacific Tragedies
New Zealand
12. Why was outsider contact with groups of people in the Pacific Islands so devastating?
Who were the first group to have contact with people from New Zealand? What was the
outcome of these contacts for the Maori? What was the second group to have contact?
What was the outcome? What was the long-term outcome of Maori contact with
outsiders?
Hawaii
13. When did Hawaii begin to have contact with “outsiders”? Why were they at first
welcoming of Westerners? How did Westerners change Hawaiian culture?
14. How did the population of Hawaii change after Westerners arrived? How did the
economy change? Who eventually annexed Hawaii in 1898? Why is Hawaii’s situation
more complicated than that of other settler colonies?
Name _______________________________________
Hand in this rubric BEFORE you give your presentation.
Category
Poor (4)
Fair (6)
Good (8)
Organization
Student
presents
Audience cannot Audience has
information in
understand
difficulty
logical
presentation
following
sequence
because there is presentation
which
no sequence to because student
audience can
the information. jumps around.
follow.
Student has
adequate poise
and posture,
occasionally
Student has
uses eye
no poise and
contact, but
poor posture,
reads most of
reads report with the report.
no eye contact, Student’s voice
Visual Aspects of
mumbles,
is low. Student
Speaker/ Eye
incorrectly
incorrectly
contact/Elocution
pronounces
pronounces
terms, or speaks terms.
too quietly for
Audience
other in the class members have
to hear.
difficulty
hearing
presentation.
Content
Student is
clearly
underprepared.
His or her
classmates will
almost fully
need to read the
material in the
book themselves
to understand the
content.
Student
answers
questions well,
but is missing
information or
presentation
seems
incomplete.
Student has
good poise
and speaking
posture,
maintains eye
contact most
of the time,
but frequently
returns to
notes. Student
speaks clearly,
pronounces
most words
correctly, and
most audience
members can
hear
presentation.
Student is
missing
substantial
pieces of
information on
the topic and
seems quite
underprepared.
Excellent (10)
Student presents
information in
logical,
interesting
sequence which
audience can
follow.
Student shows
professional-level
poise and posture,
maintains eye
contact with
audience, seldom
returns to notes,
and uses a clear
voice and correct,
precise
pronunciation of
terms so audience
can hear
presentation.
Student answers
question fully and
completely;
coordinates with
group members
when necessary.
Visual Aid
Image on slide is
visually
interesting and
related to the
content. Key
words help
audience follow
presentation.
Time
Presentation is
less than 4:30 or
more than 5:30
Image is
weakly
Image is
connected to
appropriate.
content. Key
Key words are
words are
adequate.
confusing or
inadequate.
Image does not
match content or
is too general to
be effective; too
few or too many
words on the
slide.
Presentation is
between 4:30 and
5:30