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Year 1- booklet 10,11,12 Flashcards

1
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INC founded

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1885

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2
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Indian newspapers

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-Kesari (Tilak) arrested
-Kaal (Paranjape) (1898) sentenced to hard labour

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3
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Indian nationalist group by the Savarkar Brothers

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-Young India- 1903
-assassinations of Br officials e.g. Curzon- Wyllie 1909

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Reaction to partition of Bengal

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1905- Banjeree led 6 year swadeshi movement

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5
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Morley Minto Reforms

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-1909
-expanded legislative council and the proportion of elected Indian officials
-separate electorates given to Muslims
-2 indians on Council of the Secretary of State for Indian Affairs

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6
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Bengal reuninited

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1911

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Mad Mullah

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-Somaliland
-20k dervishes
-‘drive all Christians to the sea’
-not fully supressed until after ww1

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8
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Zanzibar- Khalid bin Barghash

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1896 assumed power w/ 3k supporters after pro-br sultan die

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9
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Colonel Cardew

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-sierra leone
-1898 hut tax
-96 warriors hanged & scorched earth implemented

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10
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Battle of Omderman

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-1898 led by Kitchener
-Sudan
-Madhist regime destroyed economy, 50% reduction in population

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11
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challenge to Br rule in Sudan

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-33 military expeditions needed to punish opponents
-Mahdist revolts in 1900, 1902-3, 1904 met with public hangings

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12
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Positives of Br rule in Sudan

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-Gezira Scheme 1911, high quality cotton
-Port Sudan 1906

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Bloemfontein Conference

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-may/June 1899
-Milner demanded that Uitlanders get voting rights
-Kruger refused
-OCT 11899= Kruger demanded that Br troops withdraw from Boer borders

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2nd Boer War (stats, costs, impacts)

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-1899 to 1902 (31st May 1902)
-cost £230mill
-scorched earth
-115k Boers put into camps, 28k died in camps
-130k black civilians in camps, 20k died
-reduced appeal of Jingoism, Br army was poor

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Treaty of Vereeniging

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-1902
-Boers given £3mill
-Transvaal self governing 1906

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16
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Union of SA

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-1910
-Cape, Transvaal, Orange River Colonies joined w/ Natal
-dominion

17
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Support for empire

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-Queen V jubilee 1897
-Round Table Movement
-Empire Day=national day of celebration 1902, 1916 officially recognised
-Khaki election= 1900
-Daily express 1916

18
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weakness of imperialist attitudes

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-Emily Hobhouse= Wrote on conditions during the Boer War
-1906 election= liberals won
-Walter Crane= anti-empire illustrations

19
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National efficiency

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-40% of Br troops found unfit for service in Boer war
-8k/11k troops from Manchester turned down
-liberal reforms e.g. free schl meals 1906 to improve national efficiency

20
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Daily Mail

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-1896
-During Boer War sold 1 mill copies

21
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Romantic imperial fiction

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Maurie Gaunt- used India as a background

22
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Edward Elgar

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wrote imperial march for diamond jubilee

23
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Baden Powell

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Boys Brigade 1883- encouraged imperialism for children

24
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King George V coronation

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1911 & started commonwealth games & colonial souvenirs made

25
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Herbert Baker & Edwin Lytens

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Helped design New Delhi to move away from calcutta

26
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Chamberlain

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-Colonial secretary 1895-1903
-Ashantiland= joined into GC (pos)
-Uganda Railway (pos)
-RNC (pos)
-Imperial council= colonial conferences (1897/1902) (neg)
-jameson raid (neg)

27
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Cecil Rhodes

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-PM of cape colony 1890-96
-Rhodesia (pos)
-Round Table (wealth formed this) (pos)
-cape to Cairo (fail)
-Jameson Raid (fail)
-treatment of indigenous (fail)

28
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Chamberlain & Confederation of SA

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-Failures: jameson raid, Boer War, negotiations
-Sucess: Peace of Vereeniging

29
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Imperial preference

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-Headed by Chamberlain, 1897 & 1902
-The tariff reform league split Tories in 1906 election
-1906 rejection of imperial preference

30
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chamberlain’s territorial expansion

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-Uganda railway 1896
-Ashantiland (King Prempah) 1902

31
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Uganda Railway

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-1896
-2.5k died
-5 yrs to build, cost £5 mill
-open up trade, tourism etc

32
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Curzon

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-viceroy of India 1899-1905
-responsible for partition of bengal 1905
-laid 6000 miles of new railway, promoted education, rearmed natives, famine relief
-refused to appoint more Indians into govt

33
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Baring

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-consul general Egypt 1883-1907
-Granville Doctrine
-1906 Denshwai
-encouraged irrigation, stopped slavery, gambling etc

34
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Milner

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-High Commissioner for SA 1897-1906
-Bloemfontein conference
-1902 Milner Schools in Jo’burg
-1902 Peace of Vereeniging
-1904 chinese labourers imported (treated badly)
-Demanded full citizenship for Uitlanders

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