Q 01/05

What is the capital and largest city of Liberia?

A) Buchanan

B) Gbarnga

C) Monrovia

D) Freetown

Answer · why

C) Monrovia

Founded in 1822 at Cape Mesurado, it holds roughly a third of the national population.

Q 02/05

Liberia's capital is named after which US president?

A) James Monroe

B) Andrew Jackson

C) Thomas Jefferson

D) James Madison

Answer · why

A) James Monroe

The American Colonization Society founded the settlement in 1822 for formerly enslaved and freeborn African Americans.

Q 03/05

Which organisation, formed in 1816, began sending free Black Americans to West Africa in 1822?

A) Royal African Company

B) American Colonization Society

C) Sierra Leone Company

D) Freedmen's Bureau

Answer · why

B) American Colonization Society

It was made up mostly of Quakers and slaveholders, and backers included Lincoln, Henry Clay and James Monroe.

Q 04/05

How many freed and free-born African Americans moved to Liberia between 1822 and 1861?

A) About 50,000

B) About 2,000

C) About 6,000

D) More than 15,000

Answer · why

D) More than 15,000

Another 3,198 Afro-Caribbeans joined them, and their descendants became the Americo-Liberians.

Q 05/05

On what date did Liberia declare its independence?

A) 26 July 1847

B) 4 July 1822

C) 1 January 1839

D) 24 August 1862

Answer · why

A) 26 July 1847

The United States did not recognise the new republic until 5 February 1862.