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58 Cards in this Set
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All nations in Africa were colonized except for...
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Ethiopia
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Which nation was not one of the top 3 colonial powers in Africa? (GB, Fr, Belg. Ger.)?
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Belgium
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Which wasn't a Brittish colony? South Rhodesia, Uganda, Angola, South Africa
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Angola
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African religion precolonization emphasized the interfacing to God through...
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the elements
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The shift from the slave trade to colonialism in the 19th century was supported by _____'s declaration that the slave trade was becoming unprofitable.
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Eric Williams
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The following was NOT a Portuguese colony: Angola, Mozanbique, Sao Tome and Principe, Somalia.
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Somalia
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The Germans relinquished control over which island in Heligoland Treaty?
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Zanzibar
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Which colonial power didn't control part of the Somaliland?
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Germany
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Who were the first European settlers in South Africa?
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Dutch
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What was the name of the class of French citizens that came from Mscigeniation?
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Metis
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Which agreement is the result of the Hinterland Theory (whichever controlled the coast, controlled the territory)?
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Treaty of Tafna
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Which colonial power was most interested in investing in the future of their colonies?
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French
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Which protestor led a campaign against slavery in the Congo Free State in the late 19th century to the early 20th century?
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E.D. Morel
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Which of the following were a native group in Nigeria? (Ashanti, Ibo, Luo, Nandi)
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Ibo
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To which country's primary struggle is Abdel kadei synonymous?
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Algeria
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Which country refused to be a part of the French Fraternity after independence?
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Guinea
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In the Belgian Administration, the three principal actors that governed the colonies were:
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- The State
- The Church - The Unions/Trusts |
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Education was promoted in the Congo to prepare citizens of the colony in order to...
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develop skilled laborers for the mining industry
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The Belgian Congo was colonized by the Belgian administration under the leadership of __________.
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Kin Leopold II
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The following colonial administrator of Nigeria was famous for preventing British plantations of multinational companies.
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Sir Hugh Clifford
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The following was one of Brittish settler colonies (senegal, algeria, kenya, angola).
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Kenya
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One major reason that Belgian colonialism failed was...
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that it was build on conscript labor, both negatively effecting work-ethic and creating a non-development attitude after decolonization
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In Brittish West-Africa, the head of the local government was called the ___________.
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Governor-in-chief
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__________ and __________ were Belgian colonies.
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Rwanda and Congo
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The British method of colonial rule is know as ____.
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Indirect rule
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In the early 1900's the Congo became a colony of Belgium and not a privately owned state by Leopold II because...
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the atrocities Leopold II had committed in the Congo were exposed, and he was put under public pressure to give it up.
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Nigeria received independence from Britain in __________.
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1960
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One reasons that Belgium did not have many colonies is...
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the country had itself gained independence in 1839
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The 1922 codification of British Colonia Rule, known as the Dual Mandate under Lord Lugard, had the aim of
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proclaiming the "mutual benefit" of colonialism to both Africa and Britain
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The main resource exploited by the Europeans in the Belgian Congo was...
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rubber
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The first royal charter for what became modern-day Kenya was granted to...
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the Royal African Company
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The traditional African family operated as a singular economic unit, with the father, wives, and children each working to sustain life for the rest of the family. The imposition of colonial rule forced African men to work for wages and abandon the traditional working ways. What specific colonial establishment forced this change?
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Tax
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What area did confrontation between European colonizers and Africans go on for the longest period of time, and what was the name of the resistance?
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Ethiopia - Battle of Adowa
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Which African leader was quoted saying “you rule your masters during the week and God on the weekends” when protesting against the colonial system and describing the relationship between church and state?
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John Owalo
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In 1958 which African country did the French abandon and destroy due to their rejection of becoming a member of the French colonial community?
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Guinea
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Who was in rule at the time China came in and helped Guinea which eventually turned them socialist?
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Sekou Toure
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When the British took over the palm oil trade, who led the resistance movement and in what country? How was this individual ultimately defeated?
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Jaja of Opobo in Nigeria; he was exiled to the West Indies
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Africans reacted using secondary resistance to all of the following EXCEPT (taxes, social reconstructuring, language imposition, forced labour)
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language imposition
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What was the main reason for the food shortages in Africa during the colonial period?
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Men being used as forced labor and having to relocate resulting in subsistance farming suffering.
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Which of the following two people didn't establish independent churches as a form of secondary resistance (Kanjikitile, John Awolo, Abdel Kader, Alice Leshina)
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Kanjikitile and Abdel Kader
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The Secondary Resistance developed in places where colonial presence became established first, namely in the West African Settlements. Which one of the following was not a part of the West African Settlements? (Sierra Leone, Angola, Gold Coast, The Gambia)
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Angola
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Which of the following was not an element of the Secondary Resistance? a. Looking ahead to ending foreign rule
b. The creation of new nation-states c. Strikes and demands by trade unions d. Military engagements across the continent |
Strikes and demands by trade unions
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Who lead the Maji Maji revolt and against whom?
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Kanjikitile against the Germans
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From whom and for what reason did the Luo accept colonialism?
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The British; to protect themselves and have a militaristic advantage over the Nandi
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Who founded a church that was a protest movement against the catholic and Anglican churches? What church?
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Alice Lenshina Lumpa; Alice Lenshina Lumpa church
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What was NOT a belief involved with métissage miscegenation?
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Africans and French were free to marry each other to produce biracial children
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What was in the Cercles' scope of responsibility?
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Recruiting people for forced labor and military
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Which institution helped the natives’ process of assimilation?
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educational institutions
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Blaise Diagne was a
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French amabassador who encouraged biracial marriages in Africa
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Rank the order of these four classes of people from highest to lowest based on class hierarchy
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French citizen, assimilated, metis, indigene
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1960
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What was not a responsibility of the Governor General of French West Africa
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Establishing individual legislative assemblies
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What was the significance of passing the Loi Cadre?
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It paved the way for the establishment of legislative assemblies in the colonies
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The doctrine of the Hinterland, as applied by the French in Algeria, meant
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that whoever controlled the Algerian coastal ports also controlled the inland region
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Each of the following were assumptions behind French assimilation policy EXCEPT
a. African people were inherently inferior to French people b. Humans are malleable and therefore capable of being assimilated c. Education would be able to turn any African into a Frenchmen d. The trajectory of human development was from savagery to civility |
a. African people were inherently inferior to French people
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eopold Sedar Senghor was
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An assimilated colonial statesman
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According to French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, assimilation policies created the issue of
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Self-alienation
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What was NOT an assumption of the French assimilation policy?
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Power of force
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