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African history vocabulary by Ojas sawai

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 14mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Great pride in one's nation and/or ethnic group.

a)

Socialism

b)

Militarism

c)

Nationalism

d)

Apartheid

2.

A change of political borders cutting through at least one territory considered a homeland by some community.

a)

Assimilation

b)

Apartheid

c)

Imperialism

d)

Partition

3.

People in South Africa who are of Dutch ancestry.

a)

Boers

b)

Afrikaners

c)

Rajahs

d)


Zulus

4.

The act of obtaining or acquiring land in order to form an empire. Extending a country's power through diplomatic means or force.

a)

Nationalism

b)

Imperialism

c)

Indirect Rule

d)

Militarism

5.

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

a)

Mohandas Gandhi

b)


Apartheid

c)

Nelson Mandela

d)

F.w. De Klerk

6.

A reaction to colonial rule, and a desire for the people of African descent, no matter where they lived in the world; to think of Africa as a homeland.

a)

Pan African Movement

b)

Negritude Movement

c)

Nelson Mandela

d)

Assimilation

7.

The forced removal and enslavement of Africans to the New World by Europeans during the 1500's through the mid 1800's.

a)

Mercantilism

b)

Apartheid

c)

Triangular Trade

d)

Slave Trade

8.

The South African president who, in 1990, freed Nelson Mandela from prison after he had served 27 years.

a)

Slobodan Milosevic

b)

Desmond Tutu

c)

Nelson Mandela

d)

F.W. De Klerk

9.

A system of government used by the British and French to control parts of their colonial empires by using pre existing governments.

a)

Assimilation

b)

Imperialism

c)

Indirect Rule

d)

Apartheid

10.

The legal separation of races that occurred in South Africa from 1948-1994.

a)

Partition

b)

Imperialism

c)

Apartheid

d)

Nelson Mandela

11.

A Bantu ethnic group of Southern Africa, and the largest ethnic group in South Africa.

a)

Aztecs

b)

Mayans

c)

Zulus

d)

Boers

12.

The process by which a person or group's language and/or culture come to resemble those of another group.

a)

Imperialism

b)

Assimilation

c)

Urbanization

d)


Reservation

13.

The desire for people of African descent, no matter where they lived in the world, to think of Africa as a homeland.

(a)  

14.

A group of African people who tried to prevent their lands from being taken.

(a)  

15.

A trade barrier in which one country announces that it will no longer trade with another country in order to isolate and cause problems with that country's economy.

(a)  

16.

Exhibiting love for one's country and/or pride in your ethnic group.

(a)  

17.

The buying and selling of people.

(a)  

18.

The world that refers to what European countries did during colonial rule of Africa in which they divided up the land among each other and later created the countries of Africa that we know today

(a)  

19.

Appointing local chiefs to help a country rule their colony.

(a)  

20.

A policy of racial separation used in South Africa from 1948-1990.

(a)