Vocabulary
Treating people as property with no human rights
What is "Slavery"
The country that began the slave trade
What is "Portugal?"
Led to the downfall of all three of the African empires
What is "Fighting among leaders"
Definition of Apartheid
What is "A policy of segregation or descrimination based on race in South Africa."
A conference to settle disputes and claims to Africa where Africans were not invited
What is "the Berlin Conference"
Discrimination based on the belief that your own race is superior
What is "Racism"
Examples of the bad conditions in the middle passage:
What is "Cramped space, mal-nutrition, little food, and bad hygiene?"
Similarities between the different African Empires
What is "A lot of gold/wealth and thriving on trade."
*FUN FACT*
The president elected after Apartheid ended after being in jail for 27 years
Who is "Nelson Mandela."
When is Ms. DeMaio's birthday
Christmas!
The practice of extending a country's influence by controlling other countries:
What is "Imperialism"
The cause of the high demand for slaves in the Americas
What is "A cheap source of work for their farms, plantations, and factories?"
How did Africans create borders before Europeans colonized?
natural borders such as landforms (mountains, rivers) or agreements among cultural groups
Name 3 examples of apartheid law
1. No interracial marriage
2. Passbooks
3. Blacks could not vote
4. segregated public areas
5. Blacks could not live in cities, forced to live in homelands
government controlled areas that separated based on cultural groups
What is "homelands?"
Movement to unify African people, brought leaders together
What is "Pan-africanism"
How slaves were treated in Africa compared to the European slave trade
What is "better treatment, temporary (could buy or earn freedom), sometimes considered part of the family, often the lowest members of society such as criminals or prisoners of war"?
How were borders created after the Europeans took over?
What is "Being made for the Europeans benefit to get resources such as land, diamonds, etc."
What is the lasting impact of apartheid?
What is "large economic gap still between black and white races, racism, segregation"
Religion attempted to spread from Europeans to Africans: *Answer starting with "What/who/where then is/are "*
What is "Christianity."
What is the difference between colonialism and imperialism?
What is "Colonialism is directly controlling and settling land whereas imperialism is influencing from afar"
What was the slave trade's impact on Africa?
What is "millions of people taken from the continent, weakened communities, took potential leaders, empires collapses, open to colonization, racism & segregation"?
Why did the segregation of apartheid happen after the British left?
"White South Africans were afraid that because they were in the minority they would lose their jobs, culture, and language"
Two goals of apartheid
What is "To separate South Africa's white minority from the non-white majority and divide black South Africans along ethnic lines to decrease political power."
Why would Europeans want to convert Africans’ religion?
1. justify slavery
2. increase power over Africans