Terms
Taking apart foreign control of a colony
Decolonization
What important event in Europe helped prompt the spread of imperialism in Africa?
Industrial Revolution
What group supported Nelson Mandela in his fight against Apartheid
ANC: African National Congress
Spread message of Christianity through education and churches.
Helped colonized countries to organize against imperial powers to gain independence.
What language did the Boers speak?
Afrikaan
This term is given to refer to the Europeans watching over and taking care of natives like children.
Paternalism
Name the six motives for imperialism
Colonization, Aggression, Missionary, Economic, Leadership, and Strategic.
What was the method of decolonization the British used for most of their colonies in Africa?
Gradual decolonization
What war did Dutch settlers fight the British in South Africa?
Boer War
What were three challenges faced by the Europeans in Africa?
Disease, Animals, Tribal conflicts
Stronger country taking over a weaker country
Imperialism
What two resources were of interest to the British in South Africa. So much that they will fight a war to gain the land.
Gold and Diamonds
What are two problems of immediate decolonization?
Chaos and warfare. Politically and economically unorganized and ill prepared to take up control.
Name three advantages for colonists due to imperialism.
Medicines, education, technology.
What foreign power controlled the Nile during the years of Imperialism in Egypt and Sudan.
British
The claim by a country to exclusive or predominant control over a foreign area or territory
Sphere of Influence
What country/countries made a trading port at the tip of South Africa in the 1600s starting the first steps towards imperializing the continent of Africa?
Dutch (also German, and French)
What were the two different ways to approach decolonization? (French tried both)
Transitional (Gradual) vs. Immediate
Who opened up the interior of Africa through his use of medicines and missionary work?
David Livingstone
This meeting was held with European countries to slice up the continent of Africa in a “civilized” fashion.
Berlin Conference
A former policy of segregation and political, social, and economic discrimination against the nonwhite majority in the Republic of South Africa.
Apartheid
Imperialism in the 1800s started with what country off the Barbary Coast in the North?
France
What resource played an important role in the decolonization of Nigeria?
Oil
Rubber
The word Apartheid literally translated means?
Apart-ness