7th Grade Notes

Here are Chapter 16 Section 2 notes

Tanzania
Chapter 16
Section2
Early Reforms After Independence
• Tanzania was created when Tanganyika and Zanzibar merged in 1964
• Challenges for the New Nation
– Independent yes, but very poor and uneducated
– 12 medical doctors for 9 million people
– 120 different ethnic groups
• A National Language
– Since Swahili was most common language spoken in Tanzania, it’s president made it the official language.
– Lingua Franca- Language used for communication among people who speak different first languages.
• One Party System
– Since there were so many ethnic groups in Tanzania, they allowed only one political party, to avoid factions and hatred
– Could be multiple candidates, but only from one party
• Economic Changes
• Uhuru na kazi- freedom to work
• only hard work will end poverty
• Ujamaa-togetherness or being a family
• Work together
• Share resources
• Cooperation would boost production
• Progress and Continued Reform
– By 1985
+ national language
+ very little ethnic conflict
+ Education and literacy rates greatly improved
- Still very poor
- Ujamaa had failed
- Crop production decreased throughout the nation
- A New Era in Economics
- Elimination of the Ujamaa program
- Encouragement of new farming methods
- New seed technology
- Cash crops
- Asked for foreign aid (money)
- Privatization-sale of government owned industry to private companies
- Telephone company
- Air lines
- Result- economy is improving quickly
- Attempts at Political Reform
- Multiparty System- 2 or more political parties
- began this system in 1992
- No change in power led people to believe that the political system was still flawed