Scramble for Africa

Scramble for Africa

9th - 12th Grade

11 Qs

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Scramble for Africa

Scramble for Africa

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The Scramble for Africa was a period of rapid colonization of the African continent by European powers. It lasted from ____________________

1880 to 1900

2000-2012

1776-1783

1860-1865

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

In the early 1800s the African Association, headed by wealthy Englishmen wanted to find the city of ___________________

Detroit

Lagos

Beijing

Timbuktu

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Later in the 1800s, the goal of exploration switched from curiosity to finding ways to make _____________________

peace

new discoveries

money

tobacco

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Henry Morgan Stanley worked with King Leopold II of _________________ to force African chieftains to give up their lands

Belgium

France

United States

Japan

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

True or false - Africans were paid fair wages for their work on plantations set up by imperialists

true

false

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Steam engines allowed explorers to travel ______________ in rivers in Africa

upstream

downstream

underwater

East

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What medicine was used to treat yellow fever and malaria (transmitted by mosquitoes!)

Quinine

Amoxicillin

aspirin

Vitamin C

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