Scramble for Africa and Independence

Independence movements in Kenya were.

• were ineffective and Kenya remains a colony of Great Britain.
• more violent than in Nigeria.
• more peaceful than in Nigeria.
• not necessary because the British government was tired of taking care of the Kenyan citizens so they just left.

How did the Berlin Conference of 1884 cause conflicts in Africa that continue to the modern day?

• The conference encouraged rapid industrialization, which led to famine as many Africans stopped farming.
• The conference created economic barriers to trade, which hurt African countries' abilities to import goods.
• The conference allowed Europeans to sell weapons to African countries, leading to an arms race on the continent.
• The conference ignored existing boundaries when creating colonies, leading to territorial disputes after decolonization.

What inspired anticolonial and independence movements in Kenya and Nigeria during the mid-1900s?

• Pan-Africanism
• communism
• capitalism
• Pan-Arabism

By what means did Nigeria gain independence from Great Britain?

• a British grant of independence at the end of World War II
• a bloody rebellion modeled on the Mau Mau Uprising
• political pressure and largely peaceful negotiations
• a series of fasts and the marshaling of world opinion

Boundaries established by European governments that placed competing ethnic groups within the same country in Africa led to

• the outbreak of civil wars.
• economic prosperity.
• rapid democratization.
• widespread industrialization.

What region of the world became the MAIN focus of imperialistic powers during the Age of Imperialism?

• Africa
• Asia
• the Caribbean
• the South Pacific

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

• Boars
• Zulu
• Sepoys
• Mau Mau

Which two nations in Africa were never colonized? Select two.

• Nigeria
• Liberia
• Ethiopia
• Kenya

By the early twenty-first century, the majority of national borders in Africa were determined by

• traditional precolonial national borders.
• historic property rights of African tribes.
• former colonial claims of European countries.
• natural features such as rivers and deserts.

Nationalism is

• the belief that one race is superior to another
• having pride and loyalty to your nation -that your nation is the best, and having a connection to others of common background
• the acquisition of land, resources and markets
• the idea that land is controlled for strategic purposes