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WorksheetsUnit 6 Africa History Review
Total questions: 21
Worksheet time: 11mins
Which of the following is a result of a nationalist movement in countries like Nigeria and Kenya?
illiteracy
independence
the spread of AIDS
poverty
What role did Nelson Mandela and F.W. De Klerk play in the practice of Apartheid in South Africa?
they worked to abolish apartheid
They created apartheid
They helped maintain apartheid
They enhanced apartheid
The purpose of the Pan-African movement in Africa is to:
Create one African Government
Spread traditional religious beliefs
Create one African language
Develop a unified African political identity
Which of the following is NOT one of Africa’s religious or ethnic groups?
Swahili
Bantu
Axum
Ashanti
What is colonialism?
the uniting of a continent’s people to fight for their independence
when one country takes control over another country and then sends its people to settle that country
laws created to enforce segregation in South Africa
the uniting of a country’s people to fight for their independence
How did colonialism lead to civil war in Africa?
African ethnic groups fought against each other for control of their country after independence from colonial rule.
Europeans fought against each other for control of Africa’s natural resources
Africans welcomed the use of their natural resources for European factories
Africans fought Europeans for control over their natural resources
The main problem with the colonial boundaries drawn by Europeans was?
Europeans drew the borders without considering natural resources
The borders are not official and have never been made legal
The border can be changed anytime
Europeans drew the borders without considering the loyalties and territories of ethnic groups
What belief was key in the push for African Independence?
Discrimination
Nationalism
Patriotism
Isolationism
Many of the protests by Africans after World War II were against
Apartheid
Independence
Nationalism
Discrimination
How did colonialism cause conflict between Africans and Europeans?
Europeans fought each other for control of Africa’s natural resources
African ethnic groups fought one another for control of their country after independence from colonial rule.
Africans fought Europeans for control over their natural resources.
Africans welcomed the use of their natural resources for European factories.
Apartheid means
Lowered importance
Separateness
Togetherness
Discrimination
After independence, many countries in Africa continued to face challenges because:
Countries maintained the same colonial political boundaries, which forced conflicting ethnic and religious groups into the same political boundaries.
Nationalism
Europeans used up all of the natural resources in Africa
Tribal lands returned to their original borders
The following was NOT a product of apartheid:
black South Africans had to live in separate areas called homelands
political power was reserved for whites
black South Africans could not vote
the black South African vote only counted as ½ of a white vote
As Europeans colonized Africa, they abused African wealth to their own advantage. Europeans almost never treated Africans as fellow citizens. Furthermore, African societies and cultures were humiliated and viewed as inferior and strange. By the end of WWII, Europe was drained of the resources it needed to properly rule its colonies. Most importantly, Africans wanted to control their own government and natural resources.
The above paragraph best describes the causes for
nationalism
apartheid
slavery
colonialism
Who was the first black South African to be elected President of South Africa in 1994, after being imprisoned for 27 years for his anti-apartheid protests as a member of the African National Congress?
Kwame Nkrumah
Nelson Mandela
Desmond Tutu
Jomo Kenyatta
In 1946 British colonial leaders combined southern and northern Sudan into a single country. The inhabitants (natives) of southern Sudan mostly practice Christianity and traditional African religions. Northern Sudan is mostly Arab Muslims. Combining the citizens in these previously separate regions led to the first Sudanese civil war and later caused political and ethnic conflict.
Based on the passage above, what caused civil war in Sudan?
the African nationalist movement
Apartheid
new political borders
the Pan-African movement
Pan-Africanism is to the continent as Nationalism is to a _______________________.
hemisphere
state
city
country
Segregation is to the United States as _________________ is to South Africa.
Apartheid
Pan-Africanism
independence
settlement
The purpose of the Pan-African movement in Africa was to
create a new African continent
unite all of Africa for independence
unite an individual African country for independence
create a new African country
Which South African president ended apartheid?
Desmond Tutu
Kwame Nkrumah
F.W. de Klerk
Nelson Mandela
How did apartheid impact the non-white population of South Africa?
They lived in separate areas from the white South Africans, but there was no other relationship difference between them.
They were treated as equals after the British left South Africa in 1961.
They were allowed to vote if they were educated.
They were not allowed to vote and had to use separate facilities.
