WorksheetsAfrican Independence
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 6mins
Why did Europeans colonize Africa?
They were bored
They wanted more slaves to take to the Americas
They needed to find new trade routes
They wanted natural resouces
What occured at the Berlin Conference in 1884?
Europeans met to divide up Africa among them
African leaders met to discuss plans for independence
African leaders gave European leaders advice on how best to divide Africa
European leaders met to create a plan to grant African nations indpendence
The current political boundaries of African nations have been most influenced by...
the geographic features of the continent
the patterns of European colonialism
The location of ancient African tribal kingdoms
traditional African language groups
Which statement best expresses a major idea of Pan-Africanism?
African doctors should be trained in
Western schools.
European nations should reestablish
economic relationships with their former
African colonies.
African nations should send
peacekeeping forces to settle disputes in
other areas of the world.
African nations should work together to
solve their problems.
A major factor in the development of 20th–century nationalist movements throughout Africa was a common...
decrease in the birthrate in most nations
desire to end European colonialism
unification of East African nations
common language throughout most of Africa
Policy of racial segregation in South Africa...
decolonization
integration
apartheid
caste system
A black South African leader who protested the policy of Apartheid and spent over thirty years in prison before becoming the first black president of South Africa.
Nelson Mandela
Kwame Nkrumah
Jomo Kenyatta
Thomas Sankara
Independence movement group in Kenya that caused a lot of violence to Europeans and Africans who supported Europeans.
Boxers
Sepoys
Zulu
Mau Mau
Led an independence movement against the British in Ghana.
Jomo Kenyatta
Nelson Mandela
Kwame Nkrumah
Mahatma Gandhi
African nation that fought a war with France to gain indpendence.
Nigeria
Kenya
Alegeria
Ghana
Which ethnic group in Rwanda was given more privilege under Belgium rule and later killed in a genocide?
Hutu
Tutsi
Zulu
Twa
Africa faced all of the following problems since gaining independence, EXCEPT for...
Poverty
Disease
War
Education
