attitudes to empire

Question 1

disraeli:

1870s

Answer 1

asserted that conservative and liberals would let the empire crumble

crystal palace speech aimed to win support of newly enfranchised electorate after 1867

reform act - lord salisbury also played imperial card when he was prime minister

Question 2

disraeli:

1875

Answer 2

bought £4 million worth of shares in the suez canal

Question 3

disraeli:

1877

Answer 3

queen victoria appointed as emperor on india

appointed lytton as viceroy

Question 4

disraeli:

1878

Answer 4

berlin congress - disraeli triumphed and stopped russia invading ottoman empire and was given cyprus by the turks

Question 5

disraeli:

1879

Answer 5

indian viceroy lytton and disraeli invaded afghanistan

feared russian advances on india

huge losses but successful

Question 6

disraeli:

1880

Answer 6

lost election

Question 7

disraeli:

1898

Answer 7

sent kitchener to sudan

Question 8

gladstone:

pre 1850

Answer 8

both parties non interventionist

more interested in free trade

end to chartered companies

wanted to avoid acquiring new territories and consolidate existing empire to help them achieve self governance

Question 9

gladstone:

1880

Answer 9

first boer war

Question 10

gladstone:

1881

Answer 10

majuba hill

big british defeat

Question 11

gladstone:

1884

Answer 11

madhist rebellion in sudan

berlin conference - made bechuanaland and somaliland into protectorates, did not get involved when germany took new guinea

Question 12

gladstone:

1885

Answer 12

resigned after the third reform act, which extended vote by 5.5 million

Question 13

gladstone:

1886

Answer 13

introduced the home rule bill for ireland

had sympathy for irish nationalists, but failed

Question 14

why would better education and expansion of voting rights have an impact?

Answer 14

people could read and easily access information

vote for the outcome they wanted - most people had a say so there was less isolation

Question 15

newspapers and novels

Answer 15

king solomon’s mines by rider haggard

daily telegraph

the boy’s own paper

Question 16

youth and empire

Answer 16

boys brigade - reinforced imperialist values by offering military training and reminding young men of what it meant to be part of the british empire

Question 17

missionaries and adverts

Answer 17

by 1870, stories of explorers and misionaries were being avidly read and heroic tales helped to reinforce the victorian idea of benevolence and superiority

missionaries reinforced christianity

Question 18

exhibitions

Answer 18

international exhibition in 1862 held in south kensington featured over 28,000 exhibits from 36 countries, 7000 from india alone

africa exhibition 1890 - celebrated explorers and colonialism

1877- a nubian village featuring both animals and humans collected in sudan was displayed at london’s alexandra palace

Question 19

social darwinism

Answer 19

origin of species

certain species had advantages over their competitors was soon applied to the human race

justified by the disapperance of the maories and aborigines