Chapter 14

Question 1

Who were the three chiefs that went to England

Answer 1

Khama of the Ngwato; Bathoen of the Ngwaketse and Sebele of the Kwena

Question 2

Why the three African chiefs went to Britain?

Answer 2

To save their and five other Tswana stated from Cecil Rhodes

Question 3

Who was Cecil Rhodes?

Answer 3

was a British mining magnate and politician in southern Africa who served as Prime Minister of the Cape Colony from 1890 to 1896. His company colonized the south of Africa

Question 4

Who was David Livingstone

Answer 4

He was a Scottish missionary who travelled extensively in the area of Kwena and surroundings to converted King Schele of the Kwena to Christianity in the 1840’s

Question 5

Qual foi a interpretação tanto de Tswana como de Inglaterra ao arrangement made by Britain in 1885?

Answer 5

Twsana –> they thought this would give them protection from further European invasions

British - wanted control of the area to block further expansions by Boers and the Germans.

Question 6

What change in Tswana in 1889

Answer 6

Cecil Rhode’s British South Africa Company started expanding north out of South Africa, expropriating great swaths of land that would eventually come as Rhodesia.

Question 7

What was the chiefs of Tswana opt during the British Invasion?

Answer 7

They decided to opt for the lesser of two evils: greater control by the British rather than annexation by Rhodes

Question 8

What is a Kgotla?

Answer 8

is a public meeting, community council, or traditional law court of a Botswana village.

Question 9

Who was John Comaroff?

Answer 9

He is an anthropologist that studied in detail the political history of another of the Tswana states, the Rolong

Question 10

Which conclusion Comaroff took from studying Tswana ?

Answer 10

He showed tjat though in apperance the Tswana had clear rules stipulating how the chieftancy was to be inherited, in practice these rules were interpreted to move bad rulers and allow talented candidates to become chief

Question 11

How did Botswana break the mold?

Answer 11

They developed inclusive economic institutions after independence

Question 12

What failed in most of sub-Saharan Africa countries during independence?

Answer 12

In most of these countries, independence was an opportunity missed, accompanied by the recreation of the same type of extractive institutions that existed during the colonial period

Question 13

What is the Meat Commision ?

Answer 13

Played a central role in developing the cattle economy and it put up fences to control foot-and-mouth disease and promoted exports, which contribute to economic development and increase the support for inclusive economic institutions

Question 14

Who and what happen after the diamond discovery ?

Answer 14

Under the Secretse Khama’s government they discovered a diamond, but Khama instigated a change in the law so that all subsoil mineral rights were vested in the nation and no the tribe

Question 15

What it is the Chieftaincy Amendment Act ?

Answer 15

It is a system that structures and regulates the activity of local chieftains (or monarchs) in that society and state.

Question 16

Why there were remarkable growth rates after independence in Botswana ?

Answer 16

Under Seretse Khma, Quett Masire and Botswana Pety they led Botswana onto a path of inclusive economic and political institutions and provided a strong fiscal base for government that could invest in public services

Question 17

What happen in Alabama ?

Answer 17

A bus driver report to the police a situation that happen in his bus: a colored female was sitting in the white section and would not move back

Question 18

Who is Rosa Park’s ?

Answer 18

She was the colored human sitting in the white section. But was also the secretary of Montgomery chapter of the NAACP

Question 19

Why the Montgomery Bus Boycott so important?

Answer 19

This movement was part of a series of events and changes that finally broke the mold in the South and led to a fundamental change of institutions

Question 20

What was the political logic behind southern political institutions?

Answer 20

To secure cheap labor for the plantations

Question 21

What is the decision behind the mote “Brown vs. Board of Education ?

Answer 21

In 1954, the supreme court ruled that state-mandated segregation of schools and other politcal sites was unconstitutional

Question 22

What is a legislative malapportionment ?

Answer 22

A legislature is malapportioned when some areas or regions receive much greater representation than they should based on their share of the relevant population

Question 23

What is a legislative malapportionment ?

Answer 23

A legislature is malapportioned when some areas or regions receive much greater representation than they should based on their share of the relevant population

Question 24

Who ruled China during the 1950’s and which type of institutions ruled it

Answer 24

The Communist Party under the leadership of Mao overthrew the previous rulers, the Nationalists and proclaimed themselves the rulers in october 1sT.
The new Party were highly extractive and ruled under a dictatorship

Question 25

Why the introduction of internal passports in 1956?

Answer 25

They were introduce to forbid travelling without appropriate authorization, in order to increase political and economic control

Question 26

Which model did Mao decide to copy?

Answer 26

Mao launched an ambitous attempt to promote the rapid development of industry through the use of “five-year plans” modeled by the Soviet Union

Question 27

What is the Great Lead Forward?

Answer 27

was a five-year economic plan executed by Mao Zedong and the Chinese Communist Party, begun in 1958 and abandoned in 1961. The goal was to modernize the country’s agricultural sector using communist economic ideologies.

Question 28

Who is Deng?

Answer 28

A very successful general during revolution, who led an “anti-rightist” campaing and ended up ruling China under a inclusive markets

Question 29

What was the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution

Answer 29

was a sociopolitical movement in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) launched by Mao Zedong in 1966, and lasting until his death in 1976. Its stated goal was to preserve Chinese communism by purging remnants of capitalist and traditional elements from Chinese society.

Question 30

Who were the red Guards?

Answer 30

young, enthusiastic members of the Communist Party who were used topurge opponents of the regime

Question 31

What were the three party documents that Deng supervised?

Answer 31

This document was used to establish three things: the revitalization of higher education, a return to material incentives in industry and agriculture and the removal of the “lefties” from the party

Question 32

What was the important critical juncture that happen during the Cultural Revolution?

Answer 32

Mao’s death

Question 33

What was the turning point for china?

Answer 33

It was the HUA gUOFENG’S power and his willigness to use it against the Gang of Four

Question 34

What is the Gang of four?

Answer 34

was a Maoist political faction composed of four Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials. They came to prominence during the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976) and were later charged with a series of treasonous crimes.

Question 35

Who is Hua Guofeng’s

Answer 35

as a Chinese politician who served as Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party and Premier of the People’s Republic of China.

Question 36

What is the Democracy wall movement

Answer 36

housands of people put up “big character posters” on a long brick wall of Xidan Street, Xicheng District of Beijing, to protest about the political and social issues of China.