African History Almost There before UNIT TEST

1. The modern day political boundaries, civil wars, and conflicts found in Africa can often be traced back to which of the following event?

• European partitioning and colonization

• Ancient African trading empires

• European cooperation in the late 1800s

• Asian invasions in the 1800s

2. Which conclusion is accurate based on the map above?

• the partitioning of Africa into colonies creates uneven and artificial political boundaries
• European countries divided Africa because there were no civilizations there in 1914
• modern African countries probably enjoy these boundaries because they all follow rivers
• there were so many European countries that had colonies in Africa, there was little conflict

3. True or False?: European countries failed to consider differences in ethnic groups, cultures, and political traditions when making artificial political borders in Africa.

• True

• False

4. The main goal of the Pan-African movement was to

• End any support for the African National Congress

• Immediately overthrow all of the ruling governments in Africa

• Get all African nations to become members of the United Nations

• Get Africans to think of themselves as one people to work together

5. Nigeria's independence from Britain was _______________, whereas, Kenya's was ______________.

• Violent, peaceful

• Peaceful, violent

• Quick, slow

• Slow, quick

7. What did F.W. de Klerk do for South Africa?

• He started apartheid.
• He put Nelson Mandella in jail.
• He fought for South Africa's independence.
• He helped to end apartheid with laws to ban it.

6. Who was the first black president of South Africa?

• F.W. de Klerk
• Nelson Mandela
• Jomo Kenyatta
• Kwame Nkrumah

8. Why did the National Party pass apartheid laws in 1948? 

• To gain independence from the British
• To imprison Nelson Mandela
• To boost the sale of gold and diamonds
• To maintain white control of the country

9. A social policy or racial segregation involving political and economic and legal discrimination against non-whites.

• Independence

• Apartheid

• Segregation

• Partitioning

10. Nelson Mandela was 27 years in prison because he protested apartheid.

• yes

• no