European Imperialism & the Scramble for Africa

The act of extending rule over a foreign country or territory and/or holding colonies.

• Absolutism

• Botchulism

• Cannabalism

• Imperialism

How could European nations dominate a resource market?

• By claiming land for a certain resource (like sugarcane or rubber) it could dominate the market and make all the profit from selling that resource

• By giving up land that contained certain resources (like sugar cane or flubber) it would give it away and make no profit by not selling that resource.

• I don't know because I wasn't paying attention when Mr. Medinas taught the class about this topic...

• I don't know because I wasn't paying attention in class, and/or I also didn't do the homework which also answered this question.

Meaning from a certain region; native.

• Allele

• Biosphere

• Catalyst

• Indigenous

Someone who goes on a mission to a foreign place to spread his religion.

• Isolationist

• Missionary

• Positionary

• Divisionist

The idea that the U.S. was chosen by God to spread across the continent.

• Abolitionist Movement

• The Way of the Mandalore

• Communist Manifesto

• Manifest Destiny

Who convinced King Leopold II of Belgium to invest in Africa?

• Sir Alec Guiness

• Sir Elton John

• Sir Henry Stanley

• Sir Winston Churchill

This was started by the new settlements in the Congo and the new trade routes through Africa that King Leopold II of Belgium set up, which led to other countries staking claims on the Continent to get a piece of it for themselves.

• Scramble for Africa

• Scramble for Belgium

• Scramble of Eggs

• Scrabble for Friends

After this event African nations were divided and taken over by European nations. The preexisting African groups, tribes, and nations were arbitrarily divided, even if the divisions didn't make any sense according to the indigenous peoples' history

• African Congress

• Berlin Conference

• Conga Line Dance

• When you say the letter 'W' it starts with a 'D' sound...

To divide a country or state into different parts, usually with different types of political rule.

• Abolition

• Partition

• Constipation

• Deportation

To take advantage of in an unfair way.

• Androit

• Android

• Exploit

• Explode