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abolition movement: Movement led by Fredrick Douglass and others to end slavery.
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Africa Diaspora: The migration or scattering of homogeneous people.
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Africa nationalism: African nationalism is the nationalist political movement for one unified Africa, or the less significant objective of the acknowledgment of African tribes by instituting their own states, as well as the safeguarding of their indigenous customs.
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African slave trade: African peoples captured and taken as slaves to South America (sugar cane plantations) and North America (cotton plantations)
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apartheid: a social policy or racial segregation involving political and economic and legal discrimination against non-whites.
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armed conflict: Rebel groups against political parties and also conflicts between ethnic tribes
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berlin conference: a meeting at which representatives of European nations agreed upon rules for the European colonization of Africa
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boer war: A conflict, lasting from 1899 to 1902, in which the Boers and the British fought for control of territory in South Africa.
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boycott: It is a refusal to buy certain goods or services.
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cash crops: crops, such as tobacco, sugar, and cotton, raised in large quantities in order to be sold for profit
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cecil Rhodes: British colonial financier and statesman in South Africa made a fortune in gold and diamond mining; helped colonize the territory now known as Zimbabwe
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debt: money or goods or services owed by one person to another
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dependency: a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country
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desertification: the gradual transformation of habitable land into desert
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direct and indirect rule: direct=colonial power controlled the government at every level. France portugal germany belgium...... indirect=made the decision and expected that it was done by its own government: british
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drought: a temporary shortage of rainfall
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god, gold, glory: three reasons that motivated europe to seek new trade routes to asia
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HIV/AIDS: Virus that destroys the immune system that should protect the body from diseases. The disease is passed from person to person through sexual acts, blood transfusions, used hypodermic needles, or from mother to child during birth.
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Jomo Kenyata: Kenyan statesman and the first president of independent Kenya (1893-1978)
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Julius Nyere: first Tanzanian president after they gained their independence and believed in one-party and wanted to end foreign influence
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Kwame Nkrumah: founder of Ghana's independence movement and Ghana's first priesident
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leopold sedar senghor: he was a poet, leader of the Negritude movment and he believed all africans should have pride in their heritage
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mau mau: a violent movement against European settlers that eventually led to Kenya's decolonization from Britain
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missionaries: people who work to spread their religious beliefs
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money economy: Economic system based on the use of money as a measure of value and a unit of account
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negritude movement: movement that encouraged Africans to value their heritage and it strengthen Pan - Africanism
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nelson mendela: The first South African president who had been elected by all races. He set up the ANC Youth League to encourage people to speak out against apartheid.
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one party rule: Single party monopolizes politics in the control of government.
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pan africanism: emphasized the unity of Africans and people of African descent around the world
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subsistence farming: farming in which only enough food to feed one's family is produced
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swahili: a Bantu language with Arabic words spoken along the East African coast
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urbanization: the social process whereby cities grow and societies become more urban
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W.E.B Du Bois: believed that African Americans should strive for full rights immediatly;founded the NAACP
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westernization without modernization: getting western tastes/goods but without being able to use/ fix them
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White man's burden: idea that many European countries had a duty to spread their religion and culture to those less civilized
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zulu nation: A group of Zulu's in South Africa who were taken over by the Dutch and fought in the early times of the Boer War vs. the Dutch. Then the British fought against the Dutch later.
