LEGITIMATE TRADE AND AFRICANISMS IN AMERICA

Question 1

Abolitionist and Humanitarians 
Christianity and Spread of Western Culture
Atonement
Western Civilization
WHAT WAS THE PURPOSE OF ALL THESE ?

Answer 1

• They felt they could imperials Africa as a way for atonement

Question 2

In what way did they provide Education?

Answer 2

• Set up schools to teach them their customs

Agriculture

Question 3

Missionary Societies:
who were they?
what were they
how many were their

Answer 3

• They belong to different sets of African Christianity
• It was not like a united front
• 5
  Wesleyan Missionary Society
  Scottish Missionary Society
  Church Missionary Society
  Bremen Evangelical Missionary Society
  American Missions

Question 4

Education:
where did they set up schools in?
What was the purpose of the education system they provide?
What was the two different pronunciation groups?

Answer 4

• Set up schools in Africa
• They needed to learn African Languages
• Once they learned the languages they were able to develop writing and grammar books in their languages to teach them
• They also had to figure out new letters and symbols for the alphabet
• Different pronunciations depending on the country:
• Fr: Wolof
• Br: Jolof

Question 5

Impact

Alienated Africans

Answer 5

• Adopted the new religion of Christianity
• Learned to read and write the new languages in this way of life
• No longer believed in their African Religion, culture, way of life, and languages
• Gave up their name and converted it to a christian name

Question 6

What did the missionaries do:

Answer 6

Missionaries looked down on African culture

• They encouraged name changes from African to European
• Made them believe their names were related to the devil
• Made them believe dance, and culture were ways of the devil

Question 7

Legitimate trade :

Answer 7

Trade in Natural Products
Plantations and Experimental Farms (cocoa, coffee, peanuts, rubber, cotton etc.)
- Wanted to produce goods that would be sold to European factories
- Natural Products
- Cocoa was not beneficial to Africans it is only useful for the west

Question 8

What were the negative effects of farming crops foreign to them?

what is bioprospecting?

Answer 8

• Africans were not producing things they didn’t consume
• There would eventually be a food shortage
• After a while the same companies they were working for would sell them the materials to grow the food they need
• Africans are made to adapt to foreign crops
• They had to get used to the new rice instead of the rice that grew naturally
• Their palates became colonized
• Bioprospecting:
• Prospectors would go to Africa to identify the crops that would be useful to Europe, then they would take the seeds to grow in Europe
• This would cause botanical gardens

Question 9

Impact of Legitimate Trade
What are Africans considered?
What did the europeans establish in Africa ?
Did this cause European Rivalry?
What 2 places were established 
S\_\_\_\_ & L\_\_\_

Answer 9

Africans are humans
Europeans firm established in Africa
European Rivalry in Africa
Establishment of Sierra Leone and Liberia

Question 10

Was the Annexation of African coast by europeans really atonement?

Answer 10

Wasn’t really atonement

Question 11

American Colonization Organization Society.
who were they
What was their goal

Answer 11

• people who were racist established a group called the American Colonization Organization Society.
  Their goal was to send ppl back to Africa