African Independence Movements

Why did Europeans first take an interest in the African continent?

• They were engaged in the slave trade.

• They wanted African agricultural products.

• They wanted to control African industries.

• They wanted to send missionaries to convert the Africans.

Why did the Europeans eventually set up colonies in Africa?

• They wanted to bring African laborers to Europe.

• They needed the raw materials found on the African continent.

• Africans invited them to help develop their natural resources.

• They wanted to help the Africans settle tribal differences.

Which is a system for acquiring colonies to provide raw materials for a stronger country?

• socialism

• democracy

• imperialism

• communism

W hat is the definition of assimilation?

• refusing to give up one's language for another one

• demanding the return of a king as a national leader

• refusing to change religions even though you are ordered to do so

• giving up one's customs and adopting those of another

When did many African groups begin to challenge European colonial rule?

• in the 1800s

• after World War II

• before World War I

• during the U.S. Civil War

Why did many of the boundaries of the new African states created after World War II cause problems?

• The boundaries split tribes and kinship groups and put others together that did not get along.

• All the boundaries carefully followed the paths of rivers.

• All of the new countries were too large to rule effectively.

• Europeans drew the boundaries so they could keep all the mineral wealth for themselves.

What was the main goal of the Pan-African Movement?

• end any support for the African National Congress

• immediately overthrow all of the ruling governments in Africa

• get all African nations to become members of the United Nations

• get Africans to think of themselves as one people and work together

Why is Jomo Kenyatta important to the nation of Kenya?

• He ended the apartheid.

• He helped the British maintain power in Kenya.

• He was an independence leader and its first president.

• He seized power without an election and made a military dictatorship.

Jomo Kenyatta's government was often criticized. Why is this?

• They brought back the British to control Kenya.

• The government was controlled by only one party.

• They put apartheid into place in Kenya.

• The new government refused to trade with western countries.

Why did civil war break out in Nigeria after it became independent?

• religious conflicts between Muslims and Christians

• government control was handed over to an unpopular dictator

• protests by women demanding equal rights led to civil unrest

• arguments over writing a constitution that called for apartheid