The Scramble for Africa

Question 1

white supremacy examples

Answer 1

• human zoos
  caging African people

Question 2

opening of the Suez Canal (1869)

Answer 2

• triggers the race to conquer Africa
• British create the Suez Canal to get to Asia and obtain spices
• Suez Canal makes trip to Africa shorter

Question 3

The British in Africa

Answer 3

• Cecil Rhoades, entrepreneur from England, wealthy
• creates Cape Colony (modern S Africa)
• claimed stakes in gold/diamond mines (used slave labor, creates gov built on white supremacy)
• Boer war: war against the Boers (a settled Dutch colony), British prevailed

Question 4

Germans in Africa

Answer 4

• showed up to Africa late (1878)
• colonize SW Africa

Question 5

Slaughtering of the Herero people

Answer 5

• 1906
• Germany kills Herero people after they had rebelled against German rule
• Germans drive them into the desert, many die of starvation
• placed Herero into concentration camps

Question 6

Belgians in Africa

Answer 6

• King Leopold conquered modern day Congo for himself
• made money off of Congo rubber trees

Question 7

Belgians and rubber

Answer 7

• Belgians needed rubber
• enslaved children to harvest rubber
• quotas established, if not met, the children were delimbed and mutilated by the Belgian government

Question 8

Rwanda and Belgium

Answer 8

• Tutsi and Hutu are considered social classes (not race)
• Belgium believed that the Tutsi were superior due to lighter skin color, less “negroid” features, aka eugenics
• Belgium gave ethnic cards
• in 1961 Belgium leaves, 1962 Rwandan independence

Question 9

Rwandan Genocide

Answer 9

• 1990s, Hutu leader has plane shot down, presumably by a tutsi
• Hutu extremists (nationalists) start on a killing spree
• see Tutsi as intruders, (cockroaches)
• 800,000-1,000,000 killed in span of 100 days
• Belgium gets involved but draws out quickly