Chapter 25 L2

Britain bought Egypt’s share in the Suez Canal because it would connect Britain with its interests in India.

• True

• False

Annex means to form a new country with its own government.

• True

• False

David Livingstone was a missionary and explorer whose information was often the basis for redrawn maps of Africa.

• True

• False

King Leopold II of Belgium refused Henry Stanley’s urging to help settle the Congo River Basin in Central Africa.

• True

• False

Indigenous peoples are people who are native to a region.

• True

• False

Europeans were interested in West Africa especially for its

• size.

• independence.

• raw materials.

• rivers.

Henry Stanley stayed in Africa after David Livingstone died because

• he believed that Livingstone’s work was important.

• Livingstone paid him to stay.

• he had planned to stay when he first made the trip.

• there was no transportation back to his home.

What is one important reason that European nations met at the Berlin Conference?

• Otto von Bismarck wanted to be the leader of the European nations.

• East Africa had the most natural resources of all of Africa.

• European countries wanted to settle conflicting claims for lands in East Africa.

• The African countries wanted to be colonized by the European nations.

What happened as a result of the large Boer farming settlements in South Africa?

• war with Britain in which Britain won the territory

• Boer farmers’ takeover of Rhodes’s diamond and gold mines

• Zulus’ defeat by the British

• Europeans’ loss of all holdings in South Africa

What significance would the Suez Canal ultimately have for the British?

• take them to the Mediterranean

• connect the Mediterranean and the Red Seas

• take them to Egypt

• connect them to a sea route to India