Africa History Vocabulary

a legally separated society; the Afrikaans words for "apartness"

• Indirect Rule

• Assimilation

• Pan-African Movement

• Apartheid

an approach to ruling in which people are forced to give up their own culture

• Imperialism

• Apartheid

• Assimilation

• Pan-African Movement

The process through which a country controls another country.

• Imperialism

• Indirect Rule

• Pan-African Movement

• Assimilation

a war between citizens of the same country

• Apartheid

• Pan-African Movement

• Civil War

• Colony

a movement that called for unity among African people

• Imperialism

• Scramble for Africa

• Colony

• Pan-African Movement

Political border drawn by people not living in the area divided

• Artificial Political Boundries

• Tribal Conflict

• Scramble for Africa

• Trans-Atlantic Slave trade

a type of rule of Europeans in Africa wherein the country would appoint a local chief to be the enforcer

• Assimilation

• Indirect rule

• Civil War

• Tribal Conflict

the competition between European countries to gain territory and colonies in Africa

• Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade

• Colony

• Scramble for Africa

• Partition

the transport of people from Africa across the Atlantic to become slaves in the Americas

• Colony

• Tribal Conflict

• Partition

• Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade

war between different tribes; usually within the same nation

• Indirect Rule

• Tribal Conflict

• partition

• Scramble for Africa