Imperialism in Africa Guided Notes GRADED Check Up

Imperialism in Africa took place between what years?

• a. 1554-1880

• b. 1914-1945

• c. 1880-1914

• d. 1804-1914

Before European imperialism, Africa consisted of many ethnic groups.

• True

• False

Identify 3 reasons (obstacles) why Europeans were unable to explore the interior of Africa in the 1400’s. Choose the best answers for the blanks.

1. dense ___________

2. rapids & waterfalls made it _________ to travel through

3. diseases like _______ and sleeping sickness

• rainforests, difficult, malaria

• difficult,malaria, rainforests

What advances made it possible for Europeans to explore the interior of Africa by 1870?

• medicine

  (quinine)

• transportation

• technology

• All are correct

What ethnocentric term did Europeans call Africa because they felt the continent was "wild, exotic, and in need of enlightenment"?

• The Dark Continent

• The Enlightened Continent

• The Invisible Continent

What poem displayed the ethnocentric idea that it was the duty of Europeans to manage the affairs of non-European people whom they believed to be less developed.

• Lost Empire

• White Man's Burden

• The Waste Land

• The Sugar Cane

What did the advertisement for Pear's Soap reveal about the Europeans?

• they had to teach non-Europeans virtues of cleanliness

• they were open to learning about other cultures

• they did not believe Pear's Soap was the best soap to use

What European nation set off a competition between other European countries (“mad scramble”) for resources in Africa?

• France

• England

• Belgium

• Germany

Belgium colonized the _____.

3 important raw materials that Belgium exploited the Congo for were:

______, ______, and ____ oil

• rubber, timber, palm oil

• cotton, timber, crude oil

• rubber, cotton, palm oil