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Question 1

In what year did the Indian Mutiny break out?

Answer 1

1857

Question 2

What was the trigger cause of the Indian Mutiny?

Answer 2

Cartridge row

Question 3

What was a long term cause of the Mutiny?

Answer 3

Economic/westernisation

Question 4

What was the name given to Indian soldiers in the EICs army?

Answer 4

Sepoys

Question 5

Where did the Mutiny break out?

Answer 5

Meerut

Question 6

What northern cities were seized by rebels?

Answer 6

Agra, Lucknow, Cawnpore

Question 7

When did Britain reassert control?

Answer 7

June 1858

Question 8

What name was given to India by the British after the Mutiny?

Answer 8

Raj

Question 9

What benefits of British rule were there in India?

Answer 9

Railways, markets for products, irrigation, cheap British goods, schools and universities, jobs

Question 10

What negatives were there of British rule in India?

Answer 10

Railways for troops, most villages lacked roads, specialisation of Indian products led to to India becoming dependent on imports, only 6% land irrigated, India’s economy undercut, only privilege benefitted from education, jobs for a minority, poverty continued, famines

Question 11

Who was the Viceroy of India in 1859?

Answer 11

Canning

Question 12

What reforms were made to win Indians over?

Answer 12

Land and titles returned to native Indians, star of India medals introduced, more educational establishments opened

Question 13

Which cities were universities established in?

Answer 13

Calcutta, Bombay, Madras

Question 14

What were the names of the elite schools in India?

Answer 14

Rajkumar College, Mayo College and Bombay’s Cathedral School

Question 15

What were elite schools set up for?

Answer 15

Produce Westernised Oriental Gentleman

Question 16

How many Indians entered university between 1857 and 1887?

Answer 16

60,000

Question 17

How many Indians studied law at university?

Answer 17

2,000

Question 18

Who was the social reformer who visited India four times between 1856 and 1875?

Answer 18

Mary Carpenter

Question 19

What did Mary Carpenter establish?

Answer 19

British teachers, schools for girls in Bombay and Ahmedabad, a college to train female Indian teachers

Question 20

What did tea plantations increase from in 1851 to 1871?

Answer 20

1 to 295

Question 21

What was the name of the two republics in the hands of the Boers?

Answer 21

Transvaal and Orange Free State

Question 22

Where were the diamonds discovered when in 1867?

Answer 22

Kimberley

Question 23

Where did Britain annex in 1868?

Answer 23

Basutoland

Question 24

Where did Britain annex in 1871?

Answer 24

West Griqualand

Question 25

Where did 2,000 Griquas establish in 1873?

Answer 25

East Griqualando

Question 26

What did Britain propose to the Boers in 1875 which was rejected?

Answer 26

A federation of British and Boers terrritories

Question 27

What war broke out between 1877-78?

Answer 27

Xhosa War

Question 28

Which tribe did the Boers fight at this time?

Answer 28

Pedi Tribe

Question 29

Who did the British say they were protecting the Boers from when they seized the Transvaal?

Answer 29

Zulus

Question 30

Where did Britain invade in Jan 1879?

Answer 30

Zululand

Question 31

Where did the British defeat the Zulus in 1879??

Answer 31

Ulundi

Question 32

Where did the Boers defeat the British in 1881?

Answer 32

Majuba Hill

Question 33

What was the peace treaty called?

Answer 33

Convention of Pretoria

Question 34

What did the Convention of Pretoria state?

Answer 34

Boer self-government in the Transvaal but British control over external affairs

Question 35

What did Britain fear with Germany?

Answer 35

Boer-German alliance

Question 36

What did Britain do as a result in 1885?

Answer 36

Annexed a section of territory between German South-West Africa and the Transvaal called Bechuanaland

Question 37

Where was gold discovered in 1886?

Answer 37

Witwatersrand

Question 38

What were the non-Boer Europeans known as?

Answer 38

Outlanders

Question 39

What famous traveller received charter in 1886?

Answer 39

Cecil Rhodes

Question 40

What was Rhode's ultimate aim for the British Empire?

Answer 40

Continuous British land route from Cape Town to Egypt

Question 41

Where did Rhode's company establish a fort in 1890?

Answer 41

Salisbury in Mashonaland

Question 42

What examples were there of Bantu mistreatment?

Answer 42

Land was eroded by white settlers, profits from gold and diamond did not go to them, laws passed which limited rights of Black Africans to mines or trade, relegated to performing manual labour