1. Effects of European Rule

2. 1. New Economic Systems
Raw materials to European factories

3. b. Money economy instead of trading
Africans required to pay taxes
Left home to work in mines and on farms
Disrupted the family

4. 2. Material Improvements
Roads, railroads and telegraphs
Africans forced to work on the improvements for low wages
Encouraged migration of workers, weakened the family and village

5. b. Improved hospitals and medical care
c. Elementary schools for Africans
Learned European history and culture

7. African Nationalism
Nationalism: Sense of pride in and devotion to one’s country
Africans realized they would have to unify to win independence

8. Pan-Africanism Called for unifying all of Africa Early 1900s
“Africa for the Africans”

9. Independence Post-WWII European countries weakened by war
USSR and US spoke out against European rule in Africa
1950s-1970s – African countries gained independence