Ch. 25 L. 2 Empire Building in Africa

Britain bought Egypt's share in the Suez Canal because it would connect Britain with its interests in India

• True

• False

Annex means to form a new country with its own government

• True

• False

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

• size

• independence

• raw materials

• rivers

Henry Stanley stayed in Africa after David Livingstone died because

• he believed Livingstone's work was important

• Livingstone made him stay

• He planned to stay when he first made the trip

• there was no transportation back to his home

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

• Bismarck wanted to be the leader of the European nations

• East Africa had the most natural resources

• European countries wanted to settle conflicting claims

• Africa wanted to be colonized

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

• War with Britain which Britain won

• Boer farmers takeover diamond and gold mines

• Zulu's defeat by the British

• European's lost all colonies in South Africa