2nd Form Summer Exam 🧐

Question 1

What is the route slaves took by boat to get to America

Answer 1

The middle passage

Question 2

Name an African kingdom

Answer 2

Benin

Question 3

What was the main crop in British West Indies?

Answer 3

Sugar cane

Question 4

What are some other crops

Answer 4

Cotton and tobacco

Question 5

What were large farms with many slaves called

Answer 5

Plantations

Question 6

What happened in 1807?

Answer 6

The slave trade act (made transporting slaves illegal in British empire)

Question 7

What happened in 1838?

Answer 7

Slavery abolished in the British empire. Compensation money was paid to slave owners

Question 8

What happened 1600s in India

Answer 8

The British east India company was set up to protect British trade with India

Question 9

What happened 1700s in India ?

Answer 9

East India company paid Indian people called sepoys to fight in their army

Question 10

What happened 1857 in India

Answer 10

Sepoy mutiny. Riots against east India company . After this, the British government ruled India directly.(the British raj)

Question 11

What happened 1947 in India ?

Answer 11

India gained independence from Britain

Question 12

Evidence for British rule was bad in India

Answer 12

Indian people excluded from governmental positions
Britain were insensitive to Indian troops

Question 13

Evidence for why British rule was good in India

Answer 13

British raj built railways , canals and electric telegraph
Kept borders open for trade routes

Question 14

Who was Mahatma Ghandi

Answer 14

One of the leaders of Indian Independence Movement in the 1930s and 1940s

Question 15

Why did European countries want empires ?

Answer 15

Expansion, money, power

Question 16

Who was king of England at the start of the civil war?

Answer 16

Charles the first

Question 17

How many years was Personal rule of the English king ?

Answer 17

11 years

Question 18

What was it called when the king rejected parliaments demands to share power

Answer 18

The royal perogative

Question 19

True or false : parliament declared war on the king by raising their banner at Nottingham 1642

Answer 19

False

Question 20

One leader of parliamentarians who opposed the king

Answer 20

Oliver Cromwell

Question 21

What was the name of parliamentarian army

Answer 21

Roundheads / new model army

Question 22

Battle from English civil war

Answer 22

Battle of naseby

Question 23

Monarch executed as part of French Revolution

Answer 23

Marie Antoinette

Question 24

What were masses of ordinary people who made up 98% of population called?

Answer 24

The third estate

Question 25

What is a colony

Answer 25

A territory controlled by a foreign country

Question 26

Who rebelled against the east India company

Answer 26

Sepoys (Indian soldiers)