1. What did Mobutu do to foreign owned business-NATIONALIZE UZBEKISTAN Coal Mines.

1. What did Mobutu do to foreign owned business-NATIONALIZE

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Coal Mines

2. Which African country produces the most diamonds? Congo

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3. Describe the system of Apartheid?- Apartheid separated South Africans into four groups-white, blacks, coloreds and Asians. The system made it legal for whites to discriminate against the other three groups and gave those groups few rights. (Equality)

4. Where did most South Africans originally come from? India.

5. What changes did Joseph Mobutu make in Congo?-he changed the name of the country to Zaire, nationalized industries that had been owned by foreign countries, and borrowed money from foreign countries to start projects to improve the economy.

6. Why was the rule of King Leopold II of Belgium considered brutal? He forced Africans to harvest wild rubber without paying

them.

Belgium

7. What kind of vegetation covers the Congo basin? Tropical rain forest.

8. Under Apartheid, black south Africans were forced to move to? homelands

“Apartheid homeland”

9. What did other countries do to try to end APARTHEID?stopped trading with South Africa

APRIL 1, 1994

10. What do 2/3 of the Congo’s people do work at? farming.

11. The Boers, who settled present day South Africa, spoke? Aability to Congo? Afrikaans.

12. Why did the British want control of South Africa? Diamonds and gold discovered there.

13. Why do you think South Africans chose someone who was black as their first president after Apartheid? Because the country had been harshly ruled by whites for so long, people were fearful that a white president would not help blacks overcome the injustices of apartheid.(Liberty)

South African President Nelson Mandela

14. How did Apartheid finally end?Protests by South Africans and pressure from other countries finally led President F. W. de Klerk to pass laws ending apartheid. (Justice)

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South African President F. W. de Klerk

15. What are some of Congo’s natural resources?-gold, diamonds, copper.

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16. By the 1400’s the kingdom of Kongo, Luba, Lunda are powerful? they had iron tools

17. Once Laurent Kabila became president, how did the civil war in the Congo change? Other African countries began to get involved in the civil war.

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18. Foreign countries help Joseph Mobutu?-he changed the name of the country to Zaire, nationalized industries that had been owned by foreign countries, and borrowed money from foreign countries to start projects to improve the economy.

19. What factors prevented Mobutu from bringing stability to Congo? –the ineffectiveness of his economic programs and the fall of world copper prices.

20. What are some of Congo’s natural resources?-gold, diamonds, copper, water for hydroelectricity.

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