Chapter 4

Question 1

What African nation was created by Great Britain for freed African slaves?

Answer 1

Sierra Leone

Question 2

What Africa Nation was established by the United States after slaves were freed?

Answer 2

Liberia

Question 3

What type of European rule controlled all aspects of an African colony?

Answer 3

Direct

Question 4

What type of European rule allowed African leaders to enforce laws?

Answer 4

Indirect

Question 5

What two trade items allowed African nations to create large kingdoms in the West?

Answer 5

Gold and Salt

Question 6

How did the people of Africa preserve their history?

Answer 6

Oral traditions

Question 7

Extended families in Africa included whom?

Answer 7

Parents, children, spruces, other relatives

Question 8

What two societies did most Africans live in?

Answer 8

Farming and herding

Question 9

How was the land viewed in African culture

Answer 9

Community property

Question 10

What is it called when the husband gives gifts to the brides family

Answer 10

Bride wealth

Question 11

What were most religions of Africa?

Answer 11

Monotheistic (one god)

Question 12

During the height of the slave trade how many Africans were sent into slavery each year?

Answer 12

60,000

Question 13

What continents were linked during the slave trade

Answer 13

Africa, Europe, America

Question 14

What did Europeans use to pay slave rulers?

Answer 14

Guns

Question 15

How did the slave trade destroy many villages of Africa?

Answer 15

Took strong hands preventing farming

Question 16

What was the religious motive behind European imperialism

Answer 16

Spreading Christianity

Question 17

What two innovations helped Europeans advance into Africa?

Answer 17

New medical knowledge

The maxim gun

Question 18

What was the main discussion during the Berlin conference?

Answer 18

How to divide Africa

Question 19

What country did resist European imperialism by buying European technology?

Answer 19

Ethiopia

Question 20

The discovery of what two resources sent Europeans into South Africa?

Answer 20

Diamonds and gold

Question 21

What did the European money economy encourage African farmers to produce?

Answer 21

Cash crops

Question 22

What new systems of communication and transportation did colonial rule bring to Africa?

Answer 22

Roads
Railroads
Telegraphs