East And Weat Africa Expansion

Question 1

System of indirect rule developed by who in Northern Nigeria

Answer 1

Lugard

Question 2

What did indirect rule in Nigeria consist of

Answer 2

Administering a large territory with limited men and money

Using existing structure of local emirs as rulers but real power being with British governor

Question 3

Taxation under indirect rule Nigeria lugard

Answer 3

Chiefs given responsibility for raising and spending taxes

Half of revenue passed into colonial government spent on railways and health and rest spent by chiefs

Question 4

In 1920/ and 30s indirect rule became

Answer 4

A generally accepted principle of British colonial administration

Question 5

Cooperation in African colonies 1920s and 30s

Answer 5

Independent rule worked and cooperated with by emirs especially in northern Nigeria

Question 6

Lugard governor of Nigeria what years

Answer 6

1914-1919

Question 7

White mans

Answer 7

Burden

Question 8

Brussels conference date and purpose

Answer 8

1867 made countries distrust each over

Question 9

Berlin conference

Answer 9

1884-5

Question 10

What did Berlin conference mean

Answer 10

Gave assurance of ‘effective occupation’ which meant any European power could assert claim to land and notify other Europeans
Had to have visible presence / authority with troops and government officials

Question 11

How much land did Britain have in west Africa pre - scramble

Answer 11

Toe hold in Lagos in 1861 base for anti slaving operations
British parliamentary committee recommended abandoning west African settlements in 1865
Usually used as a penal colony

Question 12

What company did Goldie form

Answer 12

Central African Trading company

Question 13

When was the Central African trading company formed

Answer 13

1876

Question 14

In 1879 what did George Golddie do

Answer 14

Persuaded all British trading firms on Niger River to join forces to create United African Company

Question 15

What did goldie trade

Answer 15

Palm oil

Palm kernels used to make margarine

Question 16

What plantations did goldie build

Answer 16

Coffee and cocoa plantations

Question 17

Who did Goldie secure concessions from

Answer 17

Tribal chiefs

Such efforts meant that he won the trade war with rival french companies and bought them out too

Question 18

How many local treaty arrangements did Goldie secure

Answer 18

450 local treaty arrangements

Question 19

Due to Goldie success what did Britain do at Berlin Conference

Answer 19

Asserted it’s right to proclaim a protectorate over both northern and southern Nigeria

Question 20

Goldie firm chartered when

Answer 20

Royal Niger Company 1886

Question 21

Example of economic motivation for west African expansion

Answer 21

Sales of trader gin

Question 22

In 1889 how many gallons of trader gin went to Nigeria

Answer 22

1.35 million gallons

Question 23

In 1908 how much was the west African gin trade worth

Answer 23

£1.2 million

Almost 90% went to Nigeria

Question 24

Rumours of what country contributed to British expansion west Africa

Answer 24

German expansion

Question 25

Which man on the spot was in east Africa

Answer 25

McKinnon

Question 26

Goldie was in

Answer 26

West Africa

Nigeria

Question 27

Who did Britain rival in east Africa

Answer 27

German East Africa company founded in 1884 by Karl peters

Question 28

Missionary work that McKinnon did

Answer 28

He founded the Free Church of Scotland East African Scottish Mission in Kenya 1891

Question 29

Following German coup 1885 what did Salisbury want to prevent

Answer 29

The monopolists of the big lakes market

Stopping germans

Question 30

When did mackinnon send lugard to win Uganda

Answer 30

November 1889

Question 31

After imperial British east Africa company obtained acceptance of their suzerainty by Buganda and bunyoro

Answer 31

It was expensive so they anticipated some government retribution didn’t get it instead government took Uganda of their hands

Question 32

When did imperial British east Africa company collapse

Answer 32

March 1895

Question 33

In March 1895 the imperial east Africa company collapsed and what did British government do

Answer 33

Government took it over

Question 34

Why did they care about Uganda

Answer 34

Cared about the Great Lakes región since whoever was there could cut off Nile, divert it or flood it

Question 35

Yea British empire built railways in Kenya BUT fact abt Indians

Answer 35

30,000 Indians built Kenya’s railways in 1890s a third of whom were killed or seriously injured in the process

Question 36

Kikuyu people of

Answer 36

Kenya

Question 37

Kikuyu people of Kenya lost what

Answer 37

60,000 acres of fertile land to white settlers in Kenya further impoverishing then

Question 38

What African countries had their land given over to white settlers

Answer 38

Rhodesia

Kenya white highlands

Question 39

Violence broke out even before WW1 where in Africa

Answer 39

British Guiana, Nigeria, Kenya, Natal and elsewhere in a Southern Africa

Question 40

Example of revolt in Kenya

Answer 40

Nandi people Kenya 1905 over taxation promoted military sortie by British that left over 1,000 dead

Question 41

Poll tax where

Answer 41

Kenya 3 rupees

Question 42

Leeds Mercury reportes what 1885

Answer 42

Predicted Africa would become a ‘vast market’ for ‘cotton goods’

Question 43

Railway in Kenya completed when

Answer 43

1903 and five years later making £60,000 profit per year

Question 44

By 1920 how many white settlers in Kenya

Answer 44

10,000

Question 45

1918 Kenya what was banned

Answer 45

Measure introduced where blacks banned from living in areas set aside for white unless they undertook work for white owners

Question 46

What was commonly used on black miners in Kenya

Answer 46

Sjambok

Rhino hide whip