1,0- the big ideas behind Britain going global

Question 1

If levels of migration and trade were proportional, would it be direct or inverse?

Answer 1

directly proportional

Question 2

Lot’s of settlements were established which were small, isolated, and often heavily relied back to Britain for which 3 big things?

Answer 2

i. Manpower
ii. Finance
iii. Religious identity (and presumably identity generally)

Question 3

What’s the annual average of people migrating from Britain from 1850 onwards?

Answer 3

200,000

Question 4

From what year was the annual average of people migrating from the British Isles 200,000?

Answer 4

1850

Question 5

How could migration have an impact on the spread of British culture?

Answer 5

They are physically taking it with them.

Question 6

How did many Brits view the act of settling abroad?

Answer 6

It was their birth right.

Question 7

How important did many people see the act of spreading British culture as?

Answer 7

Almost some God given duty that they were morally bound to do or help towards.

Question 8

Please name 3 big missionary societies.

Answer 8

i. The Baptist Missionary Society
ii. the London Missionary Society
iii. the Anglican Church Missionary Society

Question 9

More vaguely, when were all three of the big missionary societies founded?

Answer 9

(In the 1790s.) AKA a while before our course begins- was defo already a thing

Question 10

When was the Anglican Church Missionary Society founded?

Answer 10

1799

Question 11

The missionary societies pushed for the right to do what?

Answer 11

for the right to be allowed to preach in and send missionaries to India.

Question 12

Where they successful when the missionary societies pushed for the right to be allowed to preach in and send missionaries to India?

Answer 12

Yes, they were successful.

Question 13

By 1821, what was the societies’ collective annual income?

Answer 13

£250,000

Question 14

By which year was the societies’ collective annual income £250,000 pounds?

Answer 14

1821

Question 15

By 1848, over how many missionary stations around the world did the Church Missionary Society alone have?

Answer 15

over 100

Question 16

By 1848, how many missionaries did the Church Missionary Society alone have?

Answer 16

350

Question 17

Where were the missionary stations set up?

Answer 17

These stations were made both within territories controlled by the British Empire and in non-imperial territories.

Question 18

Who was even supporting these missionary societies? (Not fully inclusive)

Answer 18

Missionary organizations had a lot of support from regular people who were part of evangelical groups. These evangelical groups had organized and gathered a large number of supporters who were willing to help out whenever needed.

Question 19

Name one missionary publication.

Answer 19

The Missionary Register

Question 20

Over how many subscribers did The Missionary Register have in 1826.

Answer 20

120,000

Question 21

In which year did The Missionary register have 120,000 subscribers?

Answer 21

1826

Question 22

What was one impact of Missionary publications?

Answer 22

They began to shape public knowledge of the remoter areas of the globe.

Question 23

Can you give an example of how a missionary publication helped to shape people’s understandings of another country?

Answer 23

David Livingstone, whose tales of crossing Africa and his passionate attack on the Arab and Portuguese slave traders, further cemented the view to Britons that they had a moral duty to ‘civilize’ the world through their missionary activities.

Question 24

When where David Livingstone’s tales of crossing Africa published via letters? (I think)

Answer 24

1852-1856

Question 25

What provided most of the income from the colonies?

Answer 25

Trade

Question 26

What could the income from trade within colonies help to compensate?

Answer 26

The cost of having their soldiers/navy in those areas.

Question 27

What did they think might be a consequence of selling to people in other countries the products of their society?

Answer 27

This could be a way of asserting a positive influence onto them, especially with not only developed technology but that through trading more generally they might become more “civilised”.

Question 28

What was happening to supply and demand in Britain.

Answer 28

That supply is pretty high up, but the demand is going down.

Question 29

Wait, isn’t this in the middle of industrial revolution? Why is demand going down within Britain???

Answer 29

They were one of the first countries to go through it and there’s only so much that you can buy.

Question 30

Why were new markets needed for the swiftly rising production of textiles and ironware in the UK? 3 reasons please :) .

Answer 30

To avoid an economic depression, unemployment, and strife in industrial areas.

Question 31

What’s the relevance of all of these questions about the UK needing new markets for their products?

Answer 31

Because these new markets were set up in other countries, of course!
Unless somebody’s changed it, this IS called the big ideas behind Britain going global, silly

Question 32

What made Britain the great economic power of the nineteenth-century world? 3 reasons please!

Answer 32

i. The speed with which British merchants moved out to search for new business around the globe.
ii. Their success in creating new commercial connections.
iii. Their dominant position in long-distance trade.

Question 33

3 facts relating to Britain being the place that a lot of trade went down (figuratively speaking).

Answer 33

i. Britain became the main entrepot (port for exchanging goods) for both the New World’s trade with the Old World, and between Europe and Asia
ii. They expanded into South America, Asia and America due to this apparently.
iii. By the 1830s British producers could undercut (sell cheaper) competition across the whole range of cotton manufactures.

Question 34

By which decade was Britain undercutting competition across the whole range of cotton manufactures?

Answer 34

The 1830s

Question 35

Up to how many times cheaper were British goods as opposed to a more local supply in whichever new market?

Answer 35

x200

Question 36

Which British force(s) protected a lot of the trade going down?

Answer 36

This trade was also protected by the Royal Navy and occasionally advanced by the government itself.

Question 37

Treaties of commerce with other nations protected British merchants from which 3 things?

Answer 37

i. Interference
ii. Discriminatory treatment
iii. And helped to obtain ‘most favoured nation status’ – the right for British goods to enter a foreign nation on preferential terms or with no tariffs.

Question 38

Can you please give an example of how the Navy helped to enforce the rights that were often laid out in the treaties of commerce?

Answer 38

On the West African coast were gunboats that attempted to intercept slave traders as well as protect trade up rivers such as the Niger.

Question 39

Can you please give an example of a war that was fought in “defence” of trade?

Answer 39

The First Opium war

Question 40

Over which years did the First Opium War take place?

Answer 40

1839-1842

Question 41

What were the Brits’ two demands during the First Opium War?

Answer 41

1) for reparations for the opium that the Chinese had seized from British ships (even though opium was illegal in China).
2) for more commercial concessions.

Question 42

With which treaty was the First Opium War finished?

Answer 42

The treaty of Nanking

Question 43

What two big things were part of the treaty of Nanking?

Answer 43

1) 6 ‘treaty-ports’ were opened
2) they gave the island of Hong Kong to Britain

Question 44

Give me 2 relevant details about the 6 ‘treaty ports’ that were opened due to the Treaty of Nanking.

Answer 44

a. British merchants were exempt from Chinese laws.
b. They set down a maximum tariff the Chinese could impose on British imports.

Question 45

Try and take literally all of this into account, especially the stuff to do with trade and also arguably the migration stuff. Who in the British population is this going to MOSTLY benefit?

Answer 45

Those who have the money to go abroad and those who are selling/ generally merchants.