Unit Review: Imperialism in Africa

What was a major reason European nations competed for control of Africa during the second half of the 1800s?

• Africa had a wealth of natural resources
• Slave labor was needed in the Americas
• African nations offered religious and political freedoms
• Europeans needed land for their excess population

One major reason European countries engaged in imperialism in the late 19th century was to

• gain a better understanding of unknown territories
• ease tensions with their rivals
• develop treatments for diseases
• obtain markets for their manufactured goods

This cartoon suggests that political power is often acquired through

• the inheritance of land
• market demands
• religious conversion
• the use of technology

The 19th-century ideas of Social Darwinism and the “White Man’s Burden” were often used to justify

• Isolationism
• Appeasement
• Imperialism
• Disarmament

Which is an accurate statement about the partitioning of Africa by European imperialist nations during the 1800's?

• New nations were based on old tribal boundaries.
• The cultural and ethnic diversity of the African people was disregarded.
• The continent was divided equally among the colonial powers.
• African unity was encouraged.

The 19th-century ideas of Social Darwinism and the “White Man’s Burden” were often used to justif

• isolationism
• imperialism
• appeasement
• disarmament

The Berlin Conference is most closely associated with the colonialization of

• South Asia
• East Asia
• Africa
• Latin America

Which of these developments in Africa was a cause of the other three?

• Rival tribal groups fought wars
• The Berlin Conference of 1884 influenced colonial boundaries
• African economies became dependent on the sale of cash crops and raw materials.
• Traditional territories and culture groups were permanently fragmented.

This stanza from Kipling's poem is most closely associated with the belief that it was the duty of Western colonial powers to

• learn from the people they conquered
• teach their colonies how to produce manufactured goods
• civilize the people they controlled
• welcome less developed countries as equals

The events shown in this cartoon most directly resulted from which of the following?

• desire for new markets and natural resources among European nations
• fear of the spread of communism
• the creation of the United Nations
• the rise of Adolf Hitler and Germany's invasion of Poland