Domestic attitudes 1857-1914

Question 1

What year did David Livingstone (explorer) try to find the source of the river nile

Answer 1

1866

Question 2

What year did David Livingstone (explorer) see the 400 local Africans being killed by the Arab ruler

Answer 2

1871

Question 3

When did John Kirk (explorer) become British consul in Zanzibar

Answer 3

1870

Question 4

When did Burton (explorer) write Arabian Nights

Answer 4

1885

Question 5

When did John Mackenzie (methodist missionary) place pressure on British govt to establish a protectorate over Bechuanaland?

Answer 5

1885

Question 6

When did Cecil Rhodes (trader) make the British South Africa Company

Answer 6

1889

Question 7

When did the territory run by the British East African Company was transferred to the British government.

Answer 7

1893

Question 8

When did George Goldie (trader) persuade all British trading firms working on the Niger River to join to form the United African Company

Answer 8

1879

Question 9

When did the British govt take direct control of the 2 protectorates included in Goldie’s company, Northern Nigeria and Southern Nigeria in exchange for £895,000

Answer 9

1900

Question 10

When did Evelyn Baring become General Consul of Egypt

Answer 10

1882-1907

Question 11

When did Evelyn Baring (administrator) approve of the Dufferin report

Answer 11

1883

Question 12

When did Bartle Frere (adminstrator) become the high commissioner for the cape colony?

Answer 12

1887

Question 13

When did Frere attempt to increase British control in South Africa. This led to a war with the local Zulu tribe, led by King Cetshwayo.

Answer 13

1878

Question 14

When did the Parliamentary Select Committee recommended Britain withdraw from its West African settlements.

Answer 14

1865

Question 15

When was Goldie able to get a charter from Parliament for his company in Niger.

Answer 15

1884

Question 16

When did Benjamin Disraeli become PM

Answer 16

In 1868, then 1874-1880

Question 17

When was the crytsal palace speech?

Answer 17

1872

Question 18

When did Disraeli buy £4 millions worth of shares of the Suez Canal

Answer 18

1875

Question 19

When was Queen Victoria declared Empress of India by Disraeli

Answer 19

1877

Question 20

When did Benjamin Disraeli annex afghanistan

Answer 20

1878

Question 21

When did Gladstone become PM?

Answer 21

In total, he was Prime Minister between 1868-1874, 1880-1885 and 1892-1894.

Question 22

When did Gladstone refuse to commit further troops, time or money to the Boer conflict after the defeat at Majuba Hill.

Answer 22

1881

Question 23

When did Gladstone send British troops into Egypt to suppress Arabi Pasha’s uprising in Alexandria that saw 50 Europeans killed.

Answer 23

1882

Question 24

When did Gladstone withdraw Anglo-Egyptian troops after the Mahdist Rebellion in Sudan.

Answer 24

1884

Question 25

When did Gladstone represent British interests at the Berlin Conference.

Answer 25

1884-1885

Question 26

When did Gladstone introduce the Home Rule Bill for Ireland.

Answer 26

1886

Question 27

When did Joseph Chamberlain become Colonial secetrary

Answer 27

between 1895 and 1903.

Question 28

When was the annexation of Ashantiland

Answer 28

1901

Question 29

When was Cecil Rhodes, PM of the cape colony?

Answer 29

1890

Question 30

When was the Jameson Raid?

Answer 30

1895

Question 31

When did Rhodes send settlers to establish Fort Salisbury in Matabeleland

Answer 31

1890

Question 32

When did the productivity of Egypt’s cotton and sugar industries rise by 200% under Baring’s rule

Answer 32

1902

Question 33

When was the Denshawai incident

Answer 33

1906

Question 34

When did Baring resign

Answer 34

1907

Question 35

When did Milner negotiate the peace at Vereeniging to end the Boer War.

Answer 35

1902

Question 36

When did Curzon make the north west frontier

Answer 36

1901

Question 37

When was the partition of Bengal

Answer 37

1905

Question 38

When was the Khaki election

Answer 38

1900

Question 39

When was the the Victoria League was created to show support for the Empire in a non-political manner. ?

Answer 39

1901

Question 40

When did John A Hobson write the book ‘imperialism’

Answer 40

1902

Question 41

When was the Education Act created?

Answer 41

1902

Question 42

When was the free school meals initiative taken place

Answer 42

1906

Question 43

When was the imperial college created

Answer 43

1907

Question 44

When was the Daily Mail created

Answer 44

1896