WH HONORS GUIDED READING: THE SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA
Ch 27 Sec 1 (pgs 773-778)
- Many European nations looked at Africa as what?
- Describe Africa prior to the Europeans taking over:
3. Explain 3 reasons why Europeans hadn’t taken over all of Africa prior to the late 1800s:
4. Identify David Livingstone & Henry Stanley (include what happened in Africa):
5. What did King Leopold of Belgium claim the motive for going into the Congo was?
6. What was the real reason why he wanted control over the Congo:
7. Explain why many Europeans believed they had the RIGHT to take over Africa:
8. What invention in 1884 would give Europeans an advantage over the Africans?
9. What role would the invention of the steam engine play in the take-over of Africa?
10. What disease did the drug quinine eventually protect Europeans from?
11. How did the Europeans use the fact that the African peoples weren’t unified to their advantage?
12. Explain the purpose of the Berlin Conference of 1884-85:
13. What was the result of the Berlin Conference?
14. Who wasn’t invited to attend this conference?
15. What were the only two places in Africa to remain free from European control by 1914?
16. What specific cash crops did the Europeans have the Africans grow for them?
17. What did these cash crops displace?
18. Describe the Zulu resistance to the British in southern Africa:
19. Who were the Boers / Afrikaners?
20. When did they first settle in South Africa?
21. Who took over their territory in the early 1800s?
22. Summarize the Great Trek:
23. What was discovered in southern Africa in the 1860s and 1880s?
24. Summarize the Boer War:
Ch 27 Sec 2 (pgs 779-784)
25. Explain the difference between indirect control or rule of the African colonies and direct control:
26. What was the policy of “paternalism”?
27. What was the policy of assimilation, and which nation supported this idea?
28 .How did many Africans react to the European take-over, and What would be the usual result?
29. Describe how Ethiopia was able to successfully resist the Europeans:
30-34. List 5 negative effects of Imperialism in Africa:
35-39. List 5 positive effects of imperialism in Africa: