Social Science Section VII - Miscellaneous

Question 1

List four Portuguese colonies in Africa.

Answer 1

Angola,

Mozambique,

Cape Verde,

and Guniea-Bisseau

Question 2

39 African colonies became independent in the twenty year period following the independence of what African nation?

Answer 2

Libya

Question 3

Most African independence movements were orchestrated and successful how?

Answer 3

Peacefully

Question 4

What country colonized Kenya?

Answer 4

Great Britain

Question 5

What country colonized Algeria?

Answer 5

France

Question 6

When did war break out between the British/French and their respective colonies?

Answer 6

When the colonial powers tried to delay independence in order to safeguard settler privileges

Question 7

Name two African countries that had large European minorities who had settled there permanently.

Answer 7

Kenya

Algeria

Question 8

Did the Belgian Congo have a greater or smaller proportion of Europeans than French Algeria and British Kenya?

Answer 8

Smaller

Question 9

Where were the Europeans in the Belgian Congo clustered around?

Answer 9

The extremely valuable mining industry in the southeastern province of Katanga

Question 10

What is the southeastern province of Katanga known as in modern-day?

Answer 10

Shaba

Question 11

What is the name of the center of the Congo’s mining industry?

Answer 11

Katanga, or Shaba (in modern-day)

Question 12

In what European nation’s colonies did the most violence occur?

Answer 12

The Portuguese colonies

Question 13

What did it take for the Portuguese colonies to gain independence?

Answer 13

The government being overthrown

Question 14

Why were the Portuguese colonies’ independence delayed until 1974?

Answer 14

The government refused to consider independence until it was overthrown (in 1974)

Question 15

How many African colonies gained independence in the 20 years following Libya’s independence?

Answer 15

39 African colonies

Question 16

In cases where independence was achieved peacefully, large celebrations demonstrated what emotions?

Answer 16

Relief, jubilation, and a sense of national unity, or at least acceptance by those who had hoped for another outcome

Question 17

Where independence was violent, what did the losers do?

Answer 17

Emigrate

Question 18

What was the first priority of Nations whose independence movements were violent?

Answer 18

Eliminating any remaining opponents

Question 19

New governments in Africa received offers of aid from what nations?

Answer 19

The two Cold War superpowers: the USA and USSR

Question 20

What did the Cold War superpowers want in return from African nations for aiding them?

Answer 20

Votes at the United Nations,

military alliances,

and trade agreements

Question 21

What did New African governments working out their relationship with their former colonizers usually involve?

Answer 21

Economic and military aid,

educational and health exchange programs,

and promises to engage in future planning exercises

Question 22

Libya was the first African country to become independent, but what was the first black African country to become independent?

Answer 22

Ghana

Question 23

What is significant about Ghana’s independence in 1957?

Answer 23

Ghana was the first black African country to become independent in 1957

Question 24

What is the capital of Ghana?

Answer 24

Accra

Question 25

What was Ghana formerly known as?

Answer 25

The Gold Coast

Question 26

What is the first degree-granting historically black university in the US?

Answer 26

Lincoln University