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Africa Terms
Key terms concerning Africa
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History
9th Grade
05/07/2014

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annexed
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incorporated a country within a state
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indigenous
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native to a region
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Pan-Africanism
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the unity of all black Africans, regardless of national boundaries
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Civil disobedience
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refusal to obey laws considered to be unjust
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Muhammad Ali
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officer of the Ottoman empire who seized power and established a separate Egyptian state in 1805; ruled for 30 years and introduced reforms that brought Egypt into the modern world
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David Livingstone
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an explorer who arrived in Africa in 1841 and chartered unknown regions
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Suez Canal
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a canal that connected Mediterranean and Red Seas, built in 1869; in 1875 Britain bought Egypt's shares
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Union of South Africa
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a nation created by Britian in 1910 that joined the old Cape Colony and Boer republics
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W.E.B. Du Bois
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leader of movements to make Africans aware of their heritage; Harvard educated
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Independence movements in Africa
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colonial opposition that occurred after World War I but were not successful until after WWII
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Marcus Garvey
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stressed the need for unity of Africans; a Jamaican who lived in Harlem
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Nnamdi Azikiwe
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a Nigerian who started a newspaper,The West African Pilot, and believed in nonviolence as a way to gain independence
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Boer War
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war between the British and the Boers between 1899 and 1902, which the British army won
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Boers
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descendants of the original Dutch settlers in South Africa; formed two independent republics; put indigenous people like Zulu on reservations
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European involvement in African countries
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Between 1880 and 1900, European countries, including Britain, France, Germany, Belgium, Italy, and Portugal, took control of nearly all of Africa
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Reason for European intervention in Egypt
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Countries knew that whoever controlled Egypt would control the all-important Suez Canal
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Role of explorers in early European colonization
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Explorers like Livingstone and Stanley made the areas of interior Africa known to European countries, thus creating interest; Britain refused but Belgium and France settled
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Berlin Conference
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Held in 1884, a conference of European leaders in which formalized the colonial boundaries in Africa; no Africans were present
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Benefits and disadvantages of British rule in Africa
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used indirect rule, in which a local ruler ruled but accepted British authority; benefits were that local customs were not disrupted; disadvantages were that African administrators still made decisions, later creating class and tribal tensions
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