African Independence

Why did Europeans colonize Africa?

• They were bored

• They wanted more slaves to take to the Americas

• They needed to find new trade routes

• They wanted natural resouces

What occured at the Berlin Conference in 1884?

• Europeans met to divide up Africa among them

• African leaders met to discuss plans for independence

• African leaders gave European leaders advice on how best to divide Africa

• European leaders met to create a plan to grant African nations indpendence

The current political boundaries of African nations have been most influenced by...

• the geographic features of the continent

• the patterns of European colonialism

• The location of ancient African tribal kingdoms

• traditional African language groups

Which statement best expresses a major idea of Pan-Africanism?

• African doctors should be trained in

  Western schools.

• European nations should reestablish

  economic relationships with their former

  African colonies.

• African nations should send

  peacekeeping forces to settle disputes in

  other areas of the world.

• African nations should work together to

  solve their problems.

A major factor in the development of 20th–century nationalist movements throughout Africa was a common...

• decrease in the birthrate in most nations

• desire to end European colonialism

• unification of East African nations

• common language throughout most of Africa

Policy of racial segregation in South Africa...

• decolonization

• integration

• apartheid

• caste system

A black South African leader who protested the policy of Apartheid and spent over thirty years in prison before becoming the first black president of South Africa.

• Nelson Mandela

• Kwame Nkrumah

• Jomo Kenyatta

• Thomas Sankara

 

Independence movement group in Kenya that caused a lot of violence to Europeans and Africans who supported Europeans.

• Boxers

• Sepoys

• Zulu

• Mau Mau

 

Led an independence movement against the British in Ghana.

• Jomo Kenyatta

• Nelson Mandela

• Kwame Nkrumah

• Mahatma Gandhi

African nation that fought a war with France to gain indpendence.

• Nigeria

• Kenya

• Alegeria

• Ghana