AF Module 3:2 Flashcards

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Scramble for Africa

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European countries worried that they wouldn’t be able to get a piece of that “magnificent African cake”

Europeans controlled 20% of Africa in 1880 and 90% by 1914, Ethiopia being the only independent one

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Attention to Slavery

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Through Protestant missionaries, people learned of slave raids and suffering of Africans
Believed conquest would bring “commerce, Christianity, and civilization”

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