*Africa History Quiz*

What continent was the focus of Imperialistic Powers during the Age of Imperialism?

• North America
• South America
• Asia
• Africa

Who was Nelson Mandela?

• A founding father of the United States
• The first African American baseball player
• The first black president of South Africa and an important civil rights leader
• Mike Tyson's training partner

What was Nelson Mandela trying to end?

• The Pan-African War
• Apartheid
• American Slavery
• African Civil War

What was the unfair system of laws that separated people in South Africa based on racial identity?

• Apartheid
• Colonialism
• Jim Crow Laws
• The Charter of 1732

True or False: Nelson Mandela was put into prison for fighting against the Government of South Africa and his political party was banned.

• True
• False

What was the meaning of the apartheid?

• The skinny long lake in Africa

• A large country in central Africa with a coastline on the Atlantic Ocean.

• Largest desert in the world covering Northern Africa

• Legal separation of the races

Apartheid in South Africa led to

• liberation of women

• Genocide of certain religious sections

• Seperation of the races

• Removal of Dutch and English influences

What was the purpose of Pan-African Movement

• Most influential leader of Kenya's independence movement, became Kenya's first president

• A movement to support Africa's common heritage and freedom. To unite all of Africa

• The guerilla group that staged a huge rebellion in Kenya in 1956.

• These were not taken in to account when European Nations divided Africa borders.

Why was there so much conflict in Africa as a result of colonization?

• Ethnic and religious groups were joined together or seperated

• Nonviolently/peacefully

• Pride in one's homeland, desire to be independent from a colonizing country

• Colonial boundaries (from the Berlin Conference)

What was the Scramble for Africa?

• Abolished apartheid laws

• South African statesman who was released from prison to become the nation's first democratically elected president in 1994.

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

• When many European countries all rushed into Africa in an attempt to gain lands for themselves.