Chapter 2: Imperial and colonial policy

Question 1

How many departments were the Colonial Office divided into?

Answer 1

1854 - 5: N America, Australia, West Indies (name at the time for group of British colonies in Caribbean), Africa, Mediterranean.
1870 - 6: all previously mentioned and General.

Question 2

From 1867, how many British men could vote out of a total population of around 30 million?

Answer 2

Only around 2 and a half million

Question 3

The right to vote depended on property ownership and was only given to men, but over what age?

Answer 3

Over the age of 21

Question 4

In 1884, the right to vote was extended to what?

Answer 4

To around 2/3 of British men

Question 5

The Caribbean colonies remained under direct British rule because the number of voters (who had to be white) was small. For example, in 1864, how many white people represented Jamaicans?

Answer 5

White people represented only 1,903 of 456,000 Jamaicans

Question 6

When the first survey of the Indian population was taken in 1871, it indicated that how many lived either directly under British rule, or in states protected by treaties with Britain?

Answer 6

At least 236 million

Question 7

In the Government of India Act (1858) a council (the India Council) (with experience of Indian affairs) was appointed to assist the Secretary of State for India and act as an advisory body in India affairs. How many members were there in the council?

Answer 7

15 members

Question 8

The Viceroy relied on Indian rulers, in charge of the how many nominally (officially though perhaps not in reality) independent Princely States?

Answer 8

565 nominally independent Princely States

Question 9

Within the civil service, bilingual Indians were recruited as low-level clerks across India’s how many provinces?

Answer 9

13 provinces

Question 10

How many sizeable (fairly large) provinces of India were there?

Answer 10

8: Bengal, Bombay, Burma, Central Provinces, Madras, North East Frontier, Punjab and the United Provinces

Question 11

What per cent of India was made up of Princely States?

Answer 11

40%

Question 11

From 1858, efforts were made to strengthen the British Indian Army which, at the outbreak of the Rebellion, had numbered how many British troops?

Answer 11

Numbered fewer than 40,000 British troops

Question 12

The East India Company’s armies were brought under the control of the Crown and the proportion of British to Indian troops raised to a ratio of what?

Answer 12

Roughly 1:2

Question 12

By the late 1880s, there was an army of how many Britons and how many Indian troops?

Answer 12

70,000 Britons and 125,000 Indian troops

Question 12

How many of how many Bengali regiments were disbanded?

Answer 12

62 of 74

Question 13

In late 1859, how many Indian troops were sent to Shanghai during the Second Opium War against China?

Answer 13

10,000

Question 13

Indian troops were useful as a cheap supply of ready-trained troops and how many were sent to Egypt to suppress Colonel Arabi Pasha’s Revolt in 1882?

Answer 13

7000

Question 14

The growth of the railways helped India’s defence. How many miles of track were added in the decade following the Rebellion, exaggerating British prescence and enabling swifter deployment of troops in the event of trouble?

Answer 14

3000

Question 14

For the past how many years had Britain dominated the seas (and consequently enjoyed considerable world influence)?

Answer 14

For the past 200 years

Question 14

How many treaties did Henry Morton Stanley sign with local chiefs to establish Leopold’s personal sovereignty over their territories, which became known as the Congo Free State from May 1885?

Answer 14

Over 450 treaties

Question 15

By 1884, although what per cent of Africa was still under local control, with the European powers largely restricted to the coastal areas, the need for some regulation of European expansion had become apparent?

Answer 15

80%

Question 16

The Berlin Conference (1884-1885) was attended by the foreign ministers of how many European states as well as the USA but France, Germany, Great Britain, and Portugal were the major players since they controlled most of colonial Africa at the time?

Answer 16

14 European states

Question 17

The General Act (signed at the Berlin Conference) triggered a further scramble for territory across Africa and, by 1900, how much per cent of the continent had been forced into European hands?

Answer 17

90%