THE STRUGGLE FOR INDEPENDENCE IN THE BRITISH (GHANA) COLONIES Flashcards
What were the religious movements
Ancestral Spirits
- Pleaded with their ancestors to help them fight the British
African Christian Churches
- Questioned the morals of missionary
- They were aligned with the colonial oppressors
- So they created their own African Christian churches
- the Bible talks about liberation but the missionaries weren’t talking about that
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Ethiopian churches
- Africans felt that Ethiopia was christians before Europe
- So they looked to Ethiopia for religion
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Islamic resistance
- Muslims used their Islamic religion as their ideology
Pan- African Movement
The 1st Pan African nation:
1st Haitian Revolution
Haiti
- Because they freed themselves of slavery
- Any slave or black person that steps on the shore of Haiti will be free
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what did Sylvester Williams do?
- Started the Pan African Movement Organization
what was W.E.B Dubois’s role in the Oan African organization ?
- he was the philosopher
Where were the series of meetings held for the Pan African Congress what was the goal of the P.A.C N P L L A
- NYC
- Paris
- London
- Lisbon
- Lastly Africa
Came up with strategies to free Africa from colonial rule
What did Marcus Garvey do?
- Set up organization to free Africa
- Part of the civil rights movement
- Eventually deported from the U.S
World War I & II
who started it
why were Africans dragged into the war
Who had to pay a special tax?
- Started by Europeans
- Why Europeans controlled colonies in African dragged them into the war
- African were forced to join the war in Europe and in Asia for the cause of the Europeans
- Special taxes were made for there Africans to pay for this war
European Weakness
- Africans realized that the Europeans were no different than them
- The only advantage were the guns
- Man asked why did they have to fight against hitler
- Because he was a oppressor
- But they were oppressed by the Europeans
- So they fought them when they got back home
Struggle for freedom in Africa:
Gold Coast
- Why did they move there?
- Who was the colonizers
Why did they call the gold coast the model colony
- they moved their because of the climate
- the British were the colonizers
- The colony was the model colony because it made a lot of profit and paid for itself.
- they call it the Gold Coast because the mined gold
Ghana Was it a non settler or settler colony What convention was founded there? Who did it consist of Why did they want to create this group?
- it was a non settler Colony
- The United Gold Coast Convention (UGCC)
- It consisted of the elites of society
- EX: Chiefs, Governors, lawyers, and doctors
- they didn’t want to be ruled by anyone else
Kwame Nkrumah
Was he the most import African of the 20th century?
Did he Attend the pan African Congress in London?
What was he selected as in the beginning of his run
What did he teach people to free themselves of?
What university did he attend ?
what movement did he become involved in after graduating from University of Pensilvania?
who invited him into their group after he became Secretary General?
What ideas did he put into practice?
Which countries resources did he use to fight against colonialism?
what did he teach the people who were under colonial rule?
- yes he was the most important African
- yes he attended the pan African congress in London
- Secretary General
- Pensilvania
- UGCC invited him
- He put into practice the ideas of the pan African congress
- He used Ghanas resources
- Teaches people how to free themselves of colonial rule
- Demonstrate against colonial government
- Wouldn’t buy anything that was imported from the Colonia government
- he taught them Positive Action
- Strikes
- Boycotts of europeans goods
- Public demonstration
What is considered positive action?
- Strikes
- Boycotts of Europeans Goods
- Public Demonstrations
Why did the British finally see the UGCC and the Big Six as a threat?
After arresting the Big Six what were the demands of the British in order to release them from jail?
What was the repercussion of the Big Six having to meet the demands of the British involving Kwame Nkrumah?
- Kwame Nkrumah organized the party and they used the methods he used previously such as Positive Action
- In order to be released from Jail they had to remove Kwame Nkrumah from the Big Six.
- Kwame Nkrumah established his own party called the Convention Peoples Party (CPP)
Who is the founder of the Convention Peoples Party?(CPP)
what came of this?
- Kwame Nkrumah
- The UGCC stood with him
- They demonstrated Positive Action Again
- The British arrested them again
Once the Big Six was arrested for the last time what event took place?
- Who was elected Prime Minister?
- The British held elections and the CPP won
- in result they wanted kwame freed
- Kwame Nkrumah was elected Prime Minister of the gold coast
