The Scramble
In 1884–85 European leaders met in this German capital to set rules for dividing Africa.
What is Berlin?
This movement encouraged Africans around the world to unite and see Africa as their shared homeland.
What is Pan-Africanism?
This system of racial segregation controlled South Africa from 1948 to the early 1990s.
What is apartheid?
This hiking trail stretches about 2,200 miles from Georgia to Maine.
What is the Appalachian Trail?
This dark fictional city is protected by a mysterious vigilante who prefers rooftops, shadows, and a bat-shaped symbol.
What is Gotham City?
This European country controlled the largest number of colonies in Africa by the early 1900s.
What is Great Britain?
The violent Mau Mau uprising took place in this East African country fighting British colonial rule.
What is Kenya?
Black South Africans were forced to live in separate territories known by this name.
What are Bantustans (homelands)?
This national park in North Carolina and Tennessee is the most visited national park in the United States.
What is Great Smoky Mountains National Park?
This technologically advanced African kingdom stayed hidden from the world for centuries thanks to powerful vibranium resources.
What is Wakanda?
Instead of ruling directly, Britain often governed colonies by working through local leaders using this system.
What is Indirect Rule?
This Kenyan nationalist leader became the country’s first prime minister after independence.
Who is Jomo Kenyatta?
This political party led the struggle against apartheid and later governed South Africa.
What is the African National Congress (ANC)?
This historic trail carried settlers west from Missouri to the Pacific Northwest.
What is the Oregon Trail?
This magical British school is hidden from ordinary people and trains young students in spells, potions, and broomstick sports.
What is Hogwarts?
France used this policy that forced Africans to adopt French language and culture.
What is assimilation?
Unlike Kenya, this West African nation gained independence from Britain mostly through political pressure rather than a major war.
What is Nigeria?
This South African president helped dismantle apartheid and shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Nelson Mandela.
Who is F. W. de Klerk?
This river forms much of Georgia’s border with Alabama.
What is the Chattahoochee River?
This peaceful green homeland of small, comfort-loving folk is famous for round doors, second breakfasts, and a very important ring passing through it.
What is the Shire?
European powers wanted African colonies partly to gain raw materials and new buyers for goods, a key idea of this economic system.
What is colonialism/industrial capitalism / industrialization?
Many African nations after independence struggled with coups and dictators, leading to this general condition of unstable governments.
What is political instability?
Countries pressured South Africa by refusing to trade with it, using this type of economic sanction.
What is an embargo?
This river carved the Grand Canyon over millions of years. I'm not sure if Coach Deon Sanders knows this.
What is the Colorado River?
This poor coal-mining region is home to the girl who volunteers as tribute to take her sister’s place in a deadly televised competition.
What is District 12?