Deck 25: Africa in the Era of Expansion

Question 1

Surprisingly, it appears that by the end of the 18^th 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.

Answer 1

developed a conscience about slavery.

Question 2

During the period known as the Informal Empire, what was the level of the Europeans' involvement in Africa?

A)The Europeans settled only the Mediterranean coast.
B)The Europeans remained only in coastal areas.
C)They eagerly sought the interior of Africa as a colonial interest.
D)They fought many wars for control with Arab Muslims.
E)The Europeans settled only the Cape Town area of South Africa.

Answer 2

The Europeans remained only in coastal areas.

Question 3

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

Answer 3

East Africa

Question 4

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 5

What would best describe some of the major accomplishments of Askia Muhammad the Great of Songhay?

A)Askia Muhammad the Great was a devout supporter of Christianity.
B)He put only Africans practicing native beliefs in important governmental positions.
C)Askia Muhammad the Great built many mosques and subsidized book production.
D)Askia Muhammad the Great supported education in the Bible.
E)He was the longest-living and most significant Swahili leader.

Question 6

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 7

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 8

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 9

What was the original focus of the European expeditions that helped open the African interior other than trade and nationalism?

A)The Europeans wanted to explore the routes of the major rivers.
B)The Europeans wanted to capture slaves for rubber plantations.
C)They were on a search for deposits of gold, salt, and silver.
D)They were searching for archaeological evidence of ancient kingdoms.
E)They were missionaries who wanted to Christianize the natives.

Question 10

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

A)Egypt.
B)Portugal.
C)Songhay.
D)Bugnada.
E)Britain.

Question 11

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 12

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 13

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 14

Who were the Boers?

A)An important tribe in Zaire.
B)Dutch settlers in southern Africa.
C)Rulers of a great kingdom centered in Zimbabwe.
D)An uneducated, dull, and generally boring people.
E)Farmers from France who settled Rhodesia.

Question 15

What is the best general description of the African interior prior to incursions by Europeans in the 1900s?

A)A pristine wilderness.
B)A patchwork of kingdoms.
C)Completely uninhabited.
D)The white man's graveyard.
E)Filled with monstrous wildlife.

Question 16

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 17

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 18

What is the best description of the jihad of Abd al-Qadir?

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

Question 19

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 20

The first Europeans to become involved in slavery as a business were from which country?

A)Britain.
B)The Netherlands.
C)Portugal.
D)Spain.
E)France.

Question 21

As a result of the Vienna settlement of 1815 following the Napoleonic wars in Europe, ____________________ gained territory in South Africa.

Question 22

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

Question 23

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 24

After the establishment of the Zanzibar Sultanate, Sayyid Sáid and his successors took control of which geographical part of Africa?

A)The area around Cape Town.
B)The Khoisan and Transvaal regions.
C)A substantial part of Great Zimbabwe.
D)The Swahili coast of East Africa.
E)Most of the Atlantic coast.

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

Boer is the Dutch word for ____________________.

Question 27

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

Question 28

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

Question 29

In 1847, in the north African country of  ____________________, the French subordinated the native Arabs and Berbers.

Question 30

Tippu Tib, whose real name was Hamed bin Mohammed al-Murjibi, spread his control over large parts of Africa near Zanzibar. What was his method of using Africans from the interior to gain vast personal wealth?

A)He had the natives of the interior carry ivory from elephant tusks to the coast to sell and then sold the people who carried the ivory into slavery, also.
B)He pitted the Boers against the British and sold goods to both sides of the warring nations in their conflicts for colonial control of Africa.
C)He helped the Zulus in their fight against the African kingdom of Great Zimbabwe and was rewarded by the winners of that war.
D)He made his fortune by selling Islamic art, religious icons, and books to the new converts of Islam along the Swahili coast and in southern Arabia.
E)He helped the poor and other members of society who needed assistance in the highly competitive economic areas where the rich got richer and poor got poorer.

Question 31

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

Question 32

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 33

The coastal cities of East Africa in the 19^th 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 34

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 35

The Niger, Congo, and Nile were the only three major rivers of Africa that were ____________________ very far inland, and then only at certain times.

Question 36

Which African group was involved in a military stalemate with Boers in southern Africa?

A)The army of Mali.
B)Great Zimbabwe tribes.
C)The Zulu.
D)The Swahili.
E)Songhay slave traders.

Question 37

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 38

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

Question 39

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 40

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

Question 41

Analyze the African slave trade. Describe its extent, evaluate its implementation, and assess its repercussions. Include information on African, Arab, and European participation in the trade.

Question 42

Term for identification: David Livingstone

Question 43

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

Question 44

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

Question 45

Term for identification: Khedive Ismail

Question 46

Term for identification: Trekboers

Question 47

Term for identification: Omani Arabs

Question 48

Term for identification: Mozambique and Mombasa

Question 49

Term for identification: Elmina

Question 50

Term for identification: white man's graveyard

Question 51

Term for identification: spheres of influence

Question 52

Term for identification: Zulu War

Question 53

Explain the lengthy absence of European intervention in Africa.

Question 54

Term for identification: Zanzibar Sultanate

Question 55

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

Question 56

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