Scramble for Africa

What was the Scramble for Africa?

•  A competition to find new trade routes

• A conflict between African kingdoms

• A rapid race by European powers to conquer and divide Africa
  

• A plan to share resources fairly

A colony is best described as:

• A country ruled by its own people

•  A place where only indigenous people live

•  A region with no government
  

• A territory governed by a distant foreign power

  
  

Partition refers to:

•  Developing factories
  

• Dividing land into new borders

• Creating new markets
  

• Ending imperial expansion

King Leopold II is most associated with:

• Controlling the Congo and exploiting people for rubber
  

• Mapping Africa

• Supporting African independence

• Building African-run governments

  
  

David Livingstone was known for being a:

• Businessman searching for diamonds

• Missionary and explorer who mapped Africa
  

• Leader of a European army

• British monarch

A country might want new markets because:

•  It wants to explore nature

•  It needs places to sell its goods
  

•  It hopes to end industrialization

• It is trying to protect indigenous rights

Imperialism is when

• Leaders give up their power voluntarily

• Countries stop trading with others
  

• Stronger countries take over weaker ones
  

• Strong countries avoid interfering with weaker ones

People who are native to a place are called ____________.

• indigenous
• HomeOwners

• Invaiders

• Native

A person who travels to spread their religion or help others is a ____________.

Using factories and machines to produce goods more quickly is ____________

• industrialization
• Imperialization

• Colonization

• Factories