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26 Cards in this Set
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Anti-slavery squadron |
- 2 ship fleet that failed to enforce abolition (1818) - needed "proof" for detainment - U.S. refused contribution until 1842 |
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American colonization society |
- organization that supported the colonization of freed African Americans (1816)
- appealed to U.S. government - Henry Clay's "Unique Solution"; deemed repatriation unpopular in general public's eyes - granted $100,000 for land in West Africa (1819) |
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Peyton Skipworth |
- former slave of John Cocke who settled in Liberia (1834)
- complained a lot about economic challenges - explained how people who succeed in Liberia used slave labor |
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"Legitimate" Trade |
- British trade with African societies to fuel needs for Industrial Revolution - need for raw materials (palm oil, gum arabic, peanuts, rubber) |
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Quinine |
- drug (an extract of cinchona bark) that protects and provides a cure for malaria
- used in West Africa ("White Man's Grave) - reduced mortality rates during 1800's |
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The Berlin Conference |
- conference where European colonial powers partitioned Africa (1884-1885)
- rules for Africa's annexation a) abolish slavery b) "effective occupation" needed c) Congo = "Free state" |
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Asante |
- state in central Ghana (1680-1874)
- captured and exported slaves - did not welcome British abolition and had no interest in legitimate trade with Britain |
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Cash Crops |
- basics of the colonial economy - relatively cheap to produce - enables taxation - creates dependency from farmers (transportation networks) |
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Indigenat |
- set of laws creating inferior legal status for French African natives (1887-1944)
- compulsory labor for cash crops - entailed a labor based tax |
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Roger Casement's Report |
- rubber in Congo Free State (1904)
- rubber is running out - people given quotas or tasks (punishments) - largely parallels slavery |
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Direct Rule |
- style of colonial administration that placed Africans under the direct authority of European administrators
- large European presence in Africa (officials enforcing law) - assimilation Evolues (citizens) Indigenes (subjects) |
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F.D. Lugard |
- British colonial administrator who served in both Uganda and Nigeria
- author of "Dual Mandate in Tropical Africa", believed to be textbook of British indirect rule |
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Panama Canal |
- costed U.S. $375 million to build (1904-1914)
- about 200,000 Caribbean workers - about 80% hospitalized in 1906 - about 28,000 died (5%) - limits of sharecropping |
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The Great Migration |
- migration of 1.6 million African Americans from the South to northern parts of the U.S. (1910-1930)
- resulted in Chicago Race Riot (1919) |
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African Association |
- part of Pan-African intellectual movement (1897)
- Henry Sylvester Williams (lawyer) founded the association - "promote and protect interests of all subjects claiming African decent" - Pan Africanist Conference (1900) |
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Marcus Garvey |
- Jamaican political leader (1887 -1940) who founded Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) in 1914
- Economic and political advancement (more direct and demanding) - Reasserting identity (denounces white integration) - "Black is beautiful" |
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W.E.B. Du Bois |
- African-American activist and African nationalist (1868-1963)
- wrote "Talented Tenth" (1903) - met in 1905 for the Niagara Movement (later known as the NAACP) - organized first Pan-African Congress in Paris (1919) |
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Waruhiu Itote |
- known as "General China" (1922-1993)
- key leader in Mau Mau rebellion in Kenya - part of the Land and Freedom Army |
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Kwame Nkrumah |
- nationalist and first president of independent Ghana (1957)
- leading advocate of pan-African unity - non-violence and positive action |
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Martin Luther King Jr. |
- Baptist minister in Montgomery, Alabama (1929-1968)
- led Montgomery Bus Boycott (1956) - traveled to Ghana (1957) - gave "I have a dream" speech (1963) |
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Jomo Kenyatta |
- Kenyan nationalist and first president of independent Kenya (1963)
- president of Kenyan African Union (1947) - imprisoned for being a part of Mau Mau Society (1952-1959) |
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"Mau Mau" |
- revolt in Kenya during 1940's and 1950's that sought to drive European settlers and their employees from lands previously held by Africans
- Jomo Kenyatta and Waruhiu Itote were key leaders |
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Malcolm X |
- American human rights activist (1925-1965)
- joined Nation of Islam (1948) - traveled to Eygpt, Nigeria and Ghana (1959) - gave "Ballot or Bullet" speech (1964) - called for self identity and retrieval for what was lost (reclamation) |
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Alex Haley |
- American writer born in Ithaca, NY (1921-1992)
- member of U.S. Coast Guard (1939-1959) - worked for Reader's Digest and Playboy - wrote Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965) - wrote "Roots: The Saga an American Family" (1976) |
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"Rumble in the Jungle" |
- boxing match between Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay) and George Foreman (1974)
- took place in Kinshasa, Zaire - described as "Expose of Black Achievement" - put on by Don King (promoter) & Mobutu Sese Seko (dictator) |
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Muhammad Ali |
- American boxer formerly known as Cassius Clay (1942-present)
- Olympic Gold (1960) - Heavyweight title (1964) - Indictment/Ban (refusal to join armed forces) (1967) |
