Modern Africa

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Objective: Answer at least 14 questions correctly. Only answer each question once or it will be counted as a mistake. JavaScript required!

1. The extension of a country's power over other lands by military, political, or economic means is called ______.

terrorism
imperialism
independence
nationalism

2. Actions by one of more countries to keep certain benefits from another country are called ______.

savannas
plantations
sanctions
trades

3. A special kind of protest in which a group of people refuse to buy or use goods that were produced by another group is a ______.

boycott
picket
sit-in
riot

4. A system in South Africa that set up separate rules for whites and for people of other races is called ______.

colonization
imperialism
apartheid
sanctions

5. Who led boycotts against European goods, which helped to lead to the independence of Guinea in 1958?

Sekou Toure
Henry Stanley
Jomo Kenyatta
Nelson Mandela

6. Hoe many Africans had been captured and shipped to the Americas in the slave trade by the end of the 1800's?

1 million
5 million
14 million
26 million

7. Who was the first prime minister of Kenya who led the struggle of East Africans against Britain?

Sekou Toure
Kwame Nkrumah
Cecil Rhodes
Jomo Kenyatta

8. The Europeans sent enslaved Africans across the Atlantic as a source of cheap labor for ______.

factories
ships
plantations
railroads

9. European interest in Africa was based on Africa's ______.

climate
geography
location
resources

10. The destruction of whole communities in Africa was on result of ______.

slavery
gold mining
trade routes
sanctions

11. Who became prime minister of Ghana in 1957?

Kwame Nkrumah
Jomo Kenyatta
David Livingstone
Sekou Toure

12. A Method used in both the American struggle for independence and the African struggles for independence was ______.

petitions
sanctions
apartheid
boycotts

13. When Arab merchants become involved in the slave trade, enslaved Africans were sometimes ______.

set free
given property
treated well
given away

14. The use of violence and fear to make a government meet a group's demands is called ______.

democracy
terrorism
imperialism
apartheid

15. Who became a leader for black South Africans in the 1950's______.

Cecil Rhodes
Jomo Kenyatta
F. W. de Klerk
Nelson Mandela

16. The European countries that took part in colonizing Africa were Britain, France, Portugal, Germany, Italy, Spain and ______.

Austria
Belgium
Switzerland
Greece

17. Imperialism in Africa opened lands to European settlement and provided ______ to European countries.

finished goods
raw materials
new weapons
cotton and sugar

18. Which country still limits basic civil rights for its black citizens?

Ghana
Guinea
Zimbabwe
South Africa

19. From the 1400s to the 1800s, most trade between Europe and Africa involved ______.

gold
salt
enslaved people
coffee

20. The meetings of European countries held in Berlin, Germany, in 1884 and 1885 were to prevent war and establish ______.

that Liberia and Ethiopia remain free of European control
fair trade practices among the merchants of Africa, Persia, India, and China
that Europeans had a right to control African people and African lands
the rules by which any country could lay claim to African land

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