Which African country was established by freed slaves from the United States?

• A. Gambia
• B. Liberia
• C. Sierra Leone
• D. Namibia

Answer: (B)

A key idea here is how freed enslaved people from the United States helped create a homeland in Africa. That homeland is Liberia, founded in the early 1800s through the efforts of the American Colonization Society, with settlers arriving from the United States to establish a new republic. The capital, Monrovia, is named after James Monroe, and Liberia declared independence in 1847, becoming Africa’s first modern republic. The other countries reflect different colonial histories: Sierra Leone was a British settlement for freed Africans, not a project from the United States; The Gambia grew out of British control along the river; Namibia has European colonial origins unrelated to U.S. freed slaves. So Liberia is the country established by freed slaves from the United States.