2- Imperial And Colonial Policy✔️

Question 1

What happened during the anglo-Mugtial war?

Answer 1

The east India company began it’s aggression, resisting tax increases on their business

Question 2

In 1803, the EIC had how many men in a private army?

Answer 2

250,000

Question 3

The Bengal famine

Answer 3

-1769
-15% of locals died

Question 4

What happened in the Indian mutiny?

Answer 4

-1857, may
-sepoys refused to use bullet cartridges coated in pork and beef fat because it violated their Hindu and Muslim beliefs
-They were imprisoned
-Led to a rebellion
-EIC lost control of 1/6 of India and the mutiny took a year to suppress

Question 5

Government of India act, 1858

Answer 5

-Queen Victoria was granted control over the EIC’s territories
-A secretary of state of India was created
- a council of 15 members with experience in Indian affairs was appointed to assist the secretary of state for India

Question 6

British administration

Answer 6

-most administrators lived in all-white clubs
-they worked to prevent famine and build railways

Question 7

Indian railways

Answer 7

-passenger train launched in 1953
-1857, 288m of rail track, 1890, 20,000m
-mainly accessible for EIC
-Helped improve the mobilisation of British

Question 8

Why was Germany a threat?

Answer 8

Began to expand its navy- britans navy was the strongest in the world & vital for protecting international colonies
-becoming increasingly industrial & competitive with britans manufacturing industries

Question 9

Why was France a threat?

Answer 9

-1887 combined Cambodia with it’s territories in Vietnam to create French Indochina

Question 10

Why was Russia a threat?

Answer 10

-encroaching into the north of chia with the trans Siberian railway in 1891

Question 11

Brussels conference

Answer 11

-1876
-decided that Africans were incapable of developing their natural resources
-Tensions between European powers were raised as they became highly suspicious of each other’s motives

Question 12

Berlin conference

Answer 12

-1884
-promised all nations should be able to trade in the basin of the congo
-if any power took possession of further land in Africa, they should notify the signatories of the act
-triggerd a land grab for Africa
-by 1902, 90% of Africa was in European hands
-There was no African representation at the conference
-Europan administores mapped out spheres of influence with little concern for natural borders or ethnic, linguistic of religious decision
-The wellbeing and religious customs of locals were overlooked

Question 13

The informal empire

Answer 13

-Some of the informal empire was controlled through commerical agreements
- Latin America- British public capital in Latin America stood at £80 m in 1865