SS7H1 Africa in Modern Times

Who was F. W. de Klerk?

• Fought against apartheid and was put into prison.    First black president of South Africa.  
• South African college professor and prime minister of South Africa.  Creator of apartheid. 
• South African president who ended apartheid.  Freed  many blacks who were imprisoned for protesting the apartheid government.  
• South African Rugby Team Captain.  Became a symbol of unity between the blacks and whites of South Africa.  

What does ANC stand for?

• African National Convention - meeting where South African leaders and politicians gather every year to discuss ways to heal the racial divide.  
• Association of Native Cultures - a cultural festival that celebrates the different ethnic groups that were present in South Africa before Europe controlled it.  
• African National Congress - a political party formed in 1911 to give blacks a voice in the South African government.
• Awesome New Contagion - a recently discovered bacterial infection that causes projectile vomiting in students who don't pay attention in social studies class. 

If a country has a high literary rate, the country is usually

• More developed/Richer
• Less developed/Poorer

Who was Nelson Mandela?

• First black president of Somalia
• First black president of Libya
• First black president of South Africa
• First black president of Kenya

How could the political situation in Nigeria be described today?

• The government is still unstable.
• Nigeria currently has a government that is able to work efficiently with its problems.
• Ghana took over Nigeria several years ago.
• Nigeria never got its independence over Great Britan

How did Kenya become an independent country?

• The Indians took over and killed every British man.

• The British are still in Kenya and it isn't independent.

• The British started granting Kenya its independence after Mau Mau created a sense of national pride and demanding equality.

• The British segregated against Africans so they decided that they should stay in power forever so no black man will be the leader of Kenya.

Since Nigeria's independence in 1960, its government has frequently shifted between democracy and military dictatorship. This situation suggests that

• some Nigerians support British colonialism.

• international problems are more easily solved by military governments.

• democracy is often difficult to establish in nations where there is great tension between different ethnic groups with differing ideas.

• economic prosperity is frequently achieved by military governments.

Which statement best characterizes the period of apartheid in South Africa?

• the majority of the population had the right to vote
• the Boers attempted to conquer Nigeria
• French was declared the official language of the nation
• many racist ideas of the ruling minority were adopted into laws

Many Europeans thought it was important to colonize Africa because

• they felt that it was their religious duty.
• of the need for natural resources.
• of a need for more markets.
• all of the above.

European colonization

• led to the trans-Atlantic slave trade

• caused the stock market crash of 1929

• established political borders that separated tribes

• caused the French Revolution