Empire fact test 3 Flashcards
Year of British formal takeover of Egypt - a ‘veiled protectorate’
1882
Policy of annexing provinces thought to be mismanaged or without a natural heir?
Doctrine of Lapse
President of Argentina, who in 1873 said Argentina would willingly suffer privations and hunger to retain its credit reputation with Britian?
Avellaneda
1933 Pact in which Britain promised to allow Argentine goods access to the British market in return for tariff reductions for British goods and the retention of a British stake in the meat industry
Roca-Runcimann Pact
Disraeli’s speech given in 1872 in favour of imperialism
Crystal Palace Speech
Liberal supporter of free trade - PM 1855-8 and 1859-65 - Foreign Secretary 1830-4, 1835-41, 1846-51
Palmerston
Who said they wanted to create ‘a class of persons, Indian in blood and colour but English in taste, in opinions, in morals and in intellect.’ When? What body did they serve on?
Thomas Macaulay, Supreme Council of India, 1835
Who was executed in April 1857 for inciting a rebellion over new cartridges?
Mangal Pandey
Liberal Prime Minister who annexed Egypt
Gladstone
Who said ‘My map of Africa lies in Europe’?
Otto von Bismarck
By 1900, how many of the 1021 senior ICS positions were filled by the indigenous Indian population?
33
Which region of India was cleared of jungle between 1840 and 1900?
Assam
Dates of the Opium Wars?
1st - 1839-1842
2nd - 1856-1860
Founder of the Royal Niger Company (1886) - which bought out the National Africa Company (itself having bought out the United Africa Company)
George Goldie
Founder of the Imperial British East Africa Company (received its charter in 1888)?
William Mckinnon
