Scramble for Africa

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

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

• Detroit

• Lagos

• Beijing

• Timbuktu

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

• peace

• new discoveries

• money

• tobacco

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

• Belgium

• France

• United States

• Japan

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

• true

• false

Steam engines allowed explorers to travel ______________ in rivers in Africa

• upstream

• downstream

• underwater

• East

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

• Quinine

• Amoxicillin

• aspirin

• Vitamin C

Breech loading rifles allowed soldiers to reload while ____________________, giving them an advantage over musket-loading rifles

• laying down

• standing up

• in a tree

• on a motorcycle

True or False - Europeans restricted the sale of breech-loading rifles to Africans

• True

• False

The _______________________ of 1884-85 was where European nations "divided up" Africa so they wouldn't fight over the lands they took over.

• Berlin Conference

• Treaty of Paris

• Annexation of Puerto Rico

• Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen