AF Module 3:2

Question 1

Scramble for Africa

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Attention to Slavery

Answer 2

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