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African History
1. The main goal of the Pan-African movement was to
2. Apartheid means …
3. What was the segregation laws called in South Africa that F. W. de Klerk help take away?
4. What was the name of Nelson Mandela’s political party?
5. Which ethnic group in Rwanda is considered the minority but is actually the elite group?
6. What decision did South African President F.W. de Klerk eventually make about the country’s
apartheid laws?
7. What was one of the factors that led to independence in South Africa, Kenya, and Nigeria?
8. The first black South African president was …
9. What was the main accomplishment the African people wanted through the Pan African
movement?
10. In what modern day country did the Hutus and the Tutsis fight for control leading to the
genocide of almost one million people?
11. Europeans in the nineteenth century saw colonies as a measure of national power. The more
colonies a European nation had, the more powerful they stood in the world. This concept is
known as ...
12. When did many African groups begin to challenge European colonial rule?
13. Why did European nations eventually set up colonies in Africa?
14. The Triangle Trade refers to the route where African slaves were sold and exchanged as
cargo for raw materials in the colonies. What was the trade route?
15. This group saw European colonization as a way to bring Christianity to a "heathen" land.
16. What was the name of the meeting that was held by U.S. and European leaders in the 19th
century (1800s) to discuss the division of Africa?
17. The estimated number of slaves taken from Africa by Europeans
18. Why did many of the boundaries of the new African states created after World War II cause
problems?
19. Which was most often used to draw new boundaries for African countries?
20. Which two European countries fought for control of South Africa?
21. Who started the African nationalist movement?
22. What does Independence mean?
23. Jomo Kenyatta helped to achieve independence for
24. What does assimilation mean?
25. What did the African Nationalist movements fight for?
26. What valuable natural resources made the British want to take over South Africa?
27. Wars fought between opposing sides within a single nation are what type of conflict?
28. Which of the following is NOT a result of political instability in Africa since independence?
29. The preplanned murder of an entire national, racial, political, or ethnic groups is called
30. Which two African nations were independent during European colonialism?
31. What does ethnic mean?
In this next section put an N beside the negatives of colonization and put a P next to the positives
of colonization.
32. Slavery
33. Wars and Riots
34. Schools and hospitals were built
35. Improved health care
36. Roads and railroads were built
37. Starvation and Poverty Disease
38. New governments and democracy
39. Improved economies / New technologies
40. Forced Cheap Labor
41. Civil Wars between ethnic groups
42. __________________ is the practice of one country's controlling the government and
economy of another country or territory.
43. What country colonized Nigeria, Kenya, and South Africa?
44. Which country had no colonies in Africa?
45. Interpret this political cartoon of Africa colonization.
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