HIS 3202
... 3. The Foundation of Liberia 4. American business interests in Western and Eastern Africa before the Civil War (1860s) 5. The United States in the 1860s/85 Berlin conference on Africa 6. African – American interests in Africa – the Idea of Pan Africanism 7. The Mandate System – the American Involvem ...
... 3. The Foundation of Liberia 4. American business interests in Western and Eastern Africa before the Civil War (1860s) 5. The United States in the 1860s/85 Berlin conference on Africa 6. African – American interests in Africa – the Idea of Pan Africanism 7. The Mandate System – the American Involvem ...
Union of South Africa
The Union of South Africa is the historic predecessor to the present-day Republic of South Africa. It came into being on 31 May 1910 with the unification of four previously separate British colonies: Cape Colony, Natal Colony, Transvaal Colony and Orange River Colony. Following World War I, the Union of South Africa was granted the administration of the German South-West Africa colony as a League of Nations mandate and it became treated in most respects as if it were another province of the Union.The Union of South Africa was founded as a dominion of the British Empire. It was governed under a form of constitutional monarchy, with the British monarch represented by a governor-general. The Union came to an end when the 1961 constitution was enacted. On 31 May 1961 the country became a sovereign republic, under the new name Republic of South Africa.