Ch 25 Africa and India

David Livingstone was a missionary and explorer whose information was often the basis for redrawn maps of Africa.

• True

• False

King Leopold II of Belgium refused Henry Stanley’s urging to help settle the Congo River Basin in Central Africa.

• True

• False

Indigenous peoples are people who are native to a region.

• True

• False

Europeans were interested in West Africa especially for its

• A) size.

• B) independence.

• C) raw materials.

• D) rivers.

What is one important reason that European nations met at the Berlin Conference?

• A) Otto von Bismarck wanted to be the leader of the European nations.

• B) East Africa had the most natural resources of all of Africa.

• C) European countries wanted to settle conflicting claims for lands in East Africa.

• D) The African countries wanted to be colonized by the European nations.

Henry Stanley stayed in Africa after David Livingstone died because

• A) he believed that Livingstone’s work was important.

• B) Livingstone paid him to stay.

• C) he had planned to stay when he first made the trip.

• D) there was no transportation back to his home.

What happened as a result of the large Boer farming settlements in South Africa?

• A) war with Britain in which Britain won the territory

• B) Boer farmers’ takeover of Rhodes’s diamond and gold mines

• C) Zulus’ defeat by the British

• D) Europeans’ loss of all holdings in South Africa

How did European imperialism give rise to African nationalism?

• A) Mistreated Africans on plantations rose up because they were underpaid and treated cruelly.

• B) African nationalists wanted to imitate the way the Europeans governed African colonies.

• C) European governors of African colonies helped the Africans learn how to govern themselves.

• D) Educated Africans rebelled because they recognized the hypocrisy of the Europeans’ treatment of them.

The major immediate cause of the Great Rebellion Mutiny was

• A) a disagreement between the sepoys and the Indian command.

• B) rivalry between Hindu and Muslim soldiers.

• C) revival and expansion of Indian nationalism.

• D) a rumor that rifle cartridges were greased with cow fat and pig fat.

Which of the following was a benefit of British rule?

• A) economic growth

• B) universal education

• C) political stability

• D) equal rights