Deck 25: Africa in the Era of Expansion

Question 1

Explain the lengthy absence of European intervention in Africa.

Answer 1

Answers would include a discussion of geography,information given to Europeans by Africans and the resistance by African groups such as the Zulu.

Question 2

Elaborate on the various states that existed in Africa prior to the arrival of Europeans.

Answer 2

Answers would include a discussion of the Songhay,Hausa,Lakes Kingdoms,Swahili,Congo and Zulu.

Question 3

The country most responsible for convincing other countries to end the slave trade in the early 1800s was

A) Spain.
B) Portugal.
C) the Netherlands.
D) the United States.
E) Britain.

Answer 3

Britain.

Question 4

During the period known as the Informal Empire in Africa,Europeans

A) settled only the Mediterranean coast.
B) remained only in coastal areas.
C) refused to consider Africa as a colonial interest.
D) fought many wars for control with Arab Muslims.
E) settled only the Cape Town area of South Africa.

Question 5

It would be most accurate to say of early European trading centers in Africa that

A) Europeans usually made more profit from the trading than did the African leaders.
B) the factories, as they were called, existed on all of Africa's coastlines.
C) there were no factories in the interior of the African continent.
D) white traders often accompanied the African leaders back to their homes in the interior to gather more goods.
E) most of the items Europeans purchased from Africans could have been bought elsewhere, but they were much cheaper in Africa.

Question 6

How profoundly did European imperialism impact Africa? Give specific examples to support your statements.

Question 7

The African interior was opened to Europeans by expeditions whose original focus had been to

A) explore routes of major rivers.
B) capture slaves for rubber plantations.
C) search for lodes of gold and silver.
D) find the kingdom of Prester John.
E) Christianize the natives.

Question 8

Compare and contrast various European groups and their perceptions of Africa.How did the areas they venture into shape their experience?

Question 9

One would best describe the European-African interaction in the 1400s and 1500s as

A) mutually rewarding.
B) respectfully undertaken.
C) one-sided, with Africans benefiting most.
D) one-sided, with Europeans benefiting most.
E) one-sided, with Africans deferring to Europeans.

Question 10

The African interior prior to incursions by Europeans in the 1900s was described as

A) a pristine wilderness.
B) a patchwork of kingdoms.
C) uninhabited.
D) the white man's graveyard.
E) filled with monstrous wildlife.

Question 11

Which of these was not descriptive of the African continent?

A) The mortality rate for visiting Europeans was probably higher than that for slaves being taken to the Americas.
B) Coastal African traders often exaggerated tales of many savages lying in wait for any intruders who might venture away from the coast.
C) Europeans could not take their animals into the interior, because the diseases that killed men also killed horses and mules.
D) Most rivers running toward the coast have now been determined to be fairly easy to navigate, despite the warnings of the original traders.
E) All of the options are descriptive of Africa.

Question 12

Analyze the African slave trade.Describe its extent,evaluate its implementation,and assess its repercussions.

Question 13

The main factor(s)contributing to the harsh slaving raids that took place within Africa was

A) the gold with which Europeans purchased slaves.
B) the firearms the Europeans introduced into the continent.
C) long-running rivalries between African kingdoms.
D) the use of Christianity to justify their actions.
E) the fact that most Africans were Muslim.

Question 14

The first slaves purchased by Europeans came from the region of

A) the Senegal River.
B) Western Sahara.
C) Equatorial Guinea.
D) the Congo.
E) Zanzibar.

Question 15

The only permanent European settlements in the southern part of Africa before the 1800s were the Dutch at Cape Town and the

A) Belgians in the Congo.
B) French in Morocco.
C) British in Rhodesia.
D) Portuguese in Angola.
E) British in Mozambique.

Question 16

Compare and contrast North,South,West,and East Africa in their relationship with Europeans.

Question 17

The first Europeans to become involved in slavery as a business were the

A) British.
B) Dutch.
C) Portuguese.
D) Spanish.
E) French.

Question 18

Which of the following felt the most direct impact of Arab and Swahili traders?

A) East Africa
B) Central Africa
C) West Africa
D) North Africa
E) South Africa

Question 19

Which of the following was a Lakes Kingdom?

A) Bunyoro-Kitara
B) Karagwe
C) Burundi
D) Buganda
E) All of the options are correct

Question 20

Askia Muhammad the Great

A) was a devout support of Christianity.
B) put only Africans practicing native beliefs in important governmental positions.
C) built many mosques.
D) supported education in the Bible.
E) was the most significant Swahili leader.

Question 21

The most technologically and economically advanced of the native tribes that inhabited southern Africa appears to have been the

A) Khoikhoi.
B) Bantu.
C) Khoisan.
D) Zulu.
E) Xhosa.

Question 22

The Great Trek took place when

A) British soldiers moved to the interior of Africa to meet Zulu warriors.
B) Zulus and Belgians clashed in Central Africa.
C) Dutch settlers moved northward in South Africa to escape domination by the British.
D) the Dutch moved northward through South Africa searching for gold.
E) the British moved into Dutch territory to seize gold holdings there.

Question 23

In Algeria,the French subordinated the native ____________________ and ____________________.

Question 24

By the time the slave trade in Africa died down,outsiders had exported all of the following from the continent EXCEPT

A) gold.
B) slaves.
C) palm oil.
D) ivory and skins.
E) coal.

Question 25

The items of interest for the British and Boers in South Africa were

A) slaves and gold.
B) diamonds and gold.
C) silver and coal.
D) emeralds and diamonds.
E) silver and gold.

Question 26

The jihad of Abd al-Qadir

A) began in the 1840s and lasted until the death of al-Qadir in 1853.
B) successfully defended Algeria against the French for about fifty years.
C) ended almost as quickly as it began, with terrible losses for the African Muslims.
D) in many ways hinted at the Algerian war for independence a century later.
E) was actually a thinly-disguised attempt by al-Qadir to seize political control of Algeria.

Question 27

Only the ____________________,____________________,and ____________________ rivers in Africa are navigable very far inland,and those only at certain times.

Question 28

Surprisingly,it appears that by the end of the 18?? century,the British had

A) decided to do away with slavery in the British Isles.
B) decided to put most of its colonizing efforts into the Indian subcontinent.
C) developed a conscience about slavery.
D) been convinced by the French that they should get out of the slave business.
E) already stopped the slave trade, Parliament having passed a law against it in the same year that the United States ended the Civil War.

Question 29

All coastal trade in East Africa was directed through

A) Arab Muslims.
B) the British.
C) Mali.
D) Zanzibar.
E) None of the options are correct.

Question 30

Islam in western Africa established itself

A) in coexistence with pagan rites.
B) by legally persecuting animists.
C) by wars of conquest.
D) by imperial decree.
E) as the only accepted religion.

Question 31

The plantation economy of East Africa was originally based on the cultivation of

A) cloves.
B) sugarcane.
C) elephants for ivory.
D) opium.
E) grain.

Question 32

The ____________________ were the first Europeans to become involved in the slave trade.

Question 33

Until the nineteenth century,most Europeans restricted their interest in Africa to

A) missionary activity.
B) colonization.
C) trade.
D) political domination.
E) Both A and C.

Question 34

Under the Zanzibar Sultanate,Sayyid Sáid and his successors took control of

A) the Bantus.
B) the Transvaal.
C) Great Zimbabwe.
D) the Swahili coast of East Africa.
E) Tanzania.

Question 35

The Boers were

A) an important tribe in Zaire.
B) Dutch settlers in southern Africa.
C) rulers of a great kingdom centered in Zimbabwe.
D) dull, boring people.
E) farmers from the Netherlands who settled Rhodesia.

Question 36

Which of the following was not true of the Swahili peoples of east Africa?

A) Those who lived in urban areas usually converted to Islam.
B) The main reason for their city-states was commercial
C) The Swahili traded up and down Africa's east coast as well as far into the interior.
D) Slave trading was never a large part of the Swahili trade network.
E) Many Swahili who lived in remote areas never converted to the Islamic faith.

Question 37

In the ____________________,Boers marched from the Cape to settle in the interior of southern Africa.

Question 38

The South African group involved in a military stalemate with Boers were the

A) Mali.
B) Great Zimbabwe tribes.
C) Zulu.
D) Ndongo tribes.
E) Songhay.

Question 39

The coastal cities of East Africa in the 19?? century

A) already had centuries of trading history at the time they were put under Omani rule.
B) were already part of Christian culture.
C) had never before experienced foreign contacts.
D) were enclaves of Arab colonists.
E) exported no slaves.

Question 40

In his letter to the King of Portugal,Kongo King Affonso I blamed rising instability in his kingdom on

A) slave traders.
B) the Boers.
C) the Portuguese-sponsored war against him.
D) an Islamic jihad.
E) the actions of Christian missionaries.

Question 41

The perception that Africa had little to offer the world except slaves changed dramatically when ____________________ were discovered at Kimberly.

Question 42

Not only did the Dutch enslave local peoples after they settled in South Africa,but they also imported slaves from ____________________ and ____________________.

Question 43

Britain came to South Africa in 1815,having been ceded the territory as part of the ____________________.

Question 44

By the late 1800s,the French and the British had carved ____________________ in West Africa.

Question 45

Using threats of piracy as an excuse,the French invaded the African states of ____________________ and ____________________.

Question 46

Boer is the Dutch word for ____________________.