How did decolonisation occur in Ghana?

How did decolonisation occur in Ghana?

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Key learning points

  1. In this lesson, we will learn about the processes and events that led to decolonisation in Ghana.

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5 Questions

Q1.
What was 'Home Rule'?
Providing a leader in London for Ireland.
Correct answer: Providing a parliament in Dublin for Ireland.
Providing an MP in parliament for Ireland.
Providing laws for orderly homes.
Q2.
What was it the the Ulster Volunteers wanted to protect?
Their connection to Britain and the acceptance of Home Rule.
Correct answer: Their connection to Britain and to avoid being made to go along with Home Rule.
Their connection to the south of Ireland and to be part of Home Rule.
Q3.
What was the Easter Rising?
Correct answer: An armed rebellion by Irish nationalists against British rule in Ireland.
An armed rebellion by Irish unionists for British rule in Ireland.
Q4.
What war occured after the Easter Rising?
The Great War, 1914 - 1918
The Irish Civil War, 1922 - 1923
Correct answer: The Irish War of Independence, 1919 - 1921
Q5.
What was the name given to the process of creating Northern Ireland and the Irish Free State?
Division of Ireland
Correct answer: Partition of Ireland

5 Questions

Q1.
What was Ghana called before independence?
The Ghana Coast
Correct answer: The Gold Coast
The Silver Coast
The West Coast
Q2.
In 1948 the people of the Gold Coast were encouraged to boycott what?
Correct answer: European goods imported into the colony.
European music and culture.
European run bus services.
Q3.
The men killed sparking the Accra riots were veterans of which war?
WWI
Correct answer: WWII
Q4.
Kwame Nkrumah became the leader of which party?
Colonial People's Party
Congress People's Party
Correct answer: Convention People's Party
Q5.
What happened to the Gold Coast in 1957?
It became a British Dominion.
Correct answer: It became independent as Ghana.

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UnitHistory / Who 'decolonised' in the twentieth century?

History