Chapter 6 - Relations with indigenous people

Question 1

When was the Indian Mutiny?

Answer 1

1857

Question 2

What was the catalyst for the Indian Mutiny?

Answer 2

Rifle cartridges were greased with animal fat (cow + pig) - offended Muslims and Hindus

Question 3

What happened in Bengal during the mutiny?

Answer 3

February 1857 - Sepoys refused to obey British officer orders

Question 4

Which cities were captured?

Answer 4

Lucknow + Cawnpore

Question 5

What occured during the mutiny?

Answer 5

. Delhi + Lucknow devasted + villages burnt
. British officers + wives and children murdered
. Mutineers tortured

Question 6

When was British control reasserted?

Answer 6

1858

Question 7

What was the influence of the media during the mutiny?

Answer 7

Reported the savagery of the Indians - ignored the brutalist of the British

Question 8

How did the British view ‘equality of opportunity’?

Answer 8

Offered education to the wealthiest Indians - left out the masses

Question 9

Were where new railways built?

Answer 9

In areas of high British support - only to keep control over regions and trade - public unable to use it

Question 10

What schemes were developed after the mutiny?

Answer 10

Irrigation and development schemes seen in different part of India - only in areas of high British support - only affected 6% of the land

Question 11

What markets were introduced by the British?

Answer 11

Rice and wheat - main food stapples ignored (rye, barley, miller, coarse rice)

Question 12

Where were new universities set up?

Answer 12

Bombay + Madrs + Calcutta 1857

Question 13

How may ppl went to the universities?

Answer 13

6000 entered - most studied the Arts, 2000 in law within 30yrs of 1857

Question 14

What did Mary Carpenter do?

Answer 14

1866-75 - Est girls schools in Bombay + Ahmedabad

Question 15

What happened to the tea plantations?

Answer 15

1851-71 - plantations increased from 1 - 295

Question 16

When were diamonds discovered in Kimberly?

Answer 16

1867 - diamonds found in Kimberly on the Vaal River in West Griqualand - triggered the diamond rush

Question 17

When was Vasutoland annexed?

Answer 17

1868

Question 18

When was West Griqualand annexed?

Answer 18

1871

Question 19

When was the Xhosa War?

Answer 19

1877-78

Question 20

When was the Transvaal annexed?

Answer 20

1877

Question 21

When did the British invade Zululand?

Answer 21

January 1879
Zulu + Ulundi ppl defeated in the same yr

Question 22

When did the Boers announce total independence from the British?

Answer 22

1880

Question 23

What happened at Majuba Hill?

Answer 23

February 1881 - Bores attacked British garrisons across the Transvaal - British defeat at Majuba Hill

Question 24

What was the Convention of Pretoria?

Answer 24

British recognised Boer self-government in Transvaal

Question 25

When did the Germans reach South-Africa?

Answer 25

1884

Question 26

When was Bechuanaland annexed?

Answer 26

1885

Question 27

When was gold discovered in Witwatersrand?

Answer 27

1886 - near the Transvaal - capital of Pretoria

Question 28

What was the treatment of black Africans like?

Answer 28

Forced to do manual labour - white ppl got skilled jobs

Question 29

How did the law treat black workers?

Answer 29

. Forbidden from living wherever they wanted
. Forced to stay in segregated neighbourhood or mining compounds

Question 30

What did the discovery of gold in Witwatersrand lead to?

Answer 30

Drew in trading companies + non-Boer Europeans (Uitlanders) to the Transvaal