Vocabulary 1
Vocabulary 2
Heritage of Africa
Independence / Transition
Modern Africa
100
A small group of people with high social status.
What is an elite?
100
Common agreement among a group of people.
What is consensus?
100
Name and explain two reasons Europeans were interested in Africa.
They were looking for a short cut to the trading routes of Asia, discovered natural resources, discovered labor, wanted to convert others to Christianity. (Answers may vary)
100
The idea that African nations should unite.
What is Pan-Africanism?
100
Why is economic dependence a problem for Africa?
It makes it challenging for African countries to make progress as it depends heavily on other nations. Many African countries are forced to import food and carry heavy debt burdens. Disruptions in the world economy can greatly affect African nations.
200
Includes all boys and girls born in the same year.
What is age grade?
200
Refusal to buy certain goods or services.
What is a boycott?
200
Why were the Europeans able to defeat the Africans who resisted imperial rule?
Due to guns (advanced weaponry), germs (Africans were not immune to the diseases the Europeans brought), and steel (advanced technology).
200
Why were many African nations able to win independence after WWII?
The war weakened colonial powers.
200
Who was Nelson Mandela?
President of post-apartheid South Africa who was elected president after being freed from prison. He worked to heal the wounds of racism and worked to provide basic services for all people (electricity, education, housing, etc...) regardless of race.
300
Movement to end slavery.
What is abolition?
300
Rigid separation of races in South Africa.
What is apartheid?
300
What were the two main ways European countries governed their colonies? Give an example of each.
Direct rule was the practice in which Europeans were put in positions of direct power in the colony. Indirect rule was the practice of using existing structures of hierarchy and native leaders to rule the colony. England practiced indirect rule and France practiced direct rule. (Answers may vary for direct rule, but not indirect rule)
300
Name two positive effects of colonial rule on African nations.
Increased infrastructure, better education, better technology, new farming methods / crops, better communication, better nutrition and medical care, increased world languages (English). (Answers may vary)
300
What is the OAU? What did it do?
The Organization of African Unity. OAU supported independence and promoted peace in the 1990s.
400
When a family only grows enough food to meet basic food needs.
What is subsistence farming?
400
Foreign policy in which countries choose not to take sides with any particular side.
What is nonalignment?
400
What was the Berlin Conference? What did it decide?
A conference held in Berlin in 1884 to divide up the colonies of Africa.
400
Name two negative effects of colonial rule on African nations.
Racism, weakened leadership, corruption, disrupted economy, dependence on other nations, disrupted traditional family life, ethnic violence due to arbitrary borders. (Answers may vary)
400
What is the AU? What does it do?
African Union. It grew out of the OAU. It strives to help African nations develop economically by encouraging foreign investment and promoting human rights and good governance.
500
The scattering of people.
What is diaspora?
500
Cutoff of trade and financial aid
What are economic sanctions?
500
Two colonies were established in Africa for freed slaves. Name one of them.
Sierra Leone (British established) or Liberia (United States established)
500
What was the negritude movement and who is credited for the movement?
A movement to inspire Africans to value their heritage. Senegalese poet Leopold Sedar Senghor is credited with the movement.
500
What is GDP and how is it used as an indicator of a country's standard of living?
GDP stands for Gross Domestic Product and it represents the amount of goods and services produced by a country in a year. It can be used to estimate a country's standard of living as countries with higher GDPs usually have better infrastructure, education, health and medical care, technology, etc...
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