Empire fact test 4

Question 1

Year Suez Canal was opened

Answer 1

1869

Question 2

Frederick Lugard’s title 1900-6

Answer 2

High Commissioner of the Protectorate of Northern Nigeria

Question 3

Where had troops been recruited from, threatening the status of sepoys in the Bengal army?

Answer 3

Sind and Punjab

Question 4

Unsuccessful attack launched against the Transvaal on New Years Eve 1895

Answer 4

Jameson Raid

Question 5

Man on the spot who ran the North Borneo Chartered Company from 1882, administering Borneo

Answer 5

Alfred Dent

Question 6

Man on the spot who repressed Paul Bogle’s Morant Bay Rebellion of 1857?

Answer 6

Governor General Edward Eyre

Question 7

When and where was a conspiracy to massacre Europeans discovered, prior to the Rebellion of 1857?

Answer 7

Bangalore, 1832

Question 8

Which imperial issue split the Liberal party in 1886?

Answer 8

Irish Home Rule

Question 9

Indigenous group in southern Africa massacred with Maxim machine guns in Rhodes’ establishment of Rhodesia 1890s

Answer 9

Ndebele

Question 10

Doctrine for making a ‘legitimate’ claim for African territory, set out at the Berlin Conference

Answer 10

Principle of Effective Occupation

Question 11

Commodity that led to initial British interest in Malaya

Answer 11

Rubber and Tin

Question 12

Commander who ordered the massacre at Amritsar in 1919

Answer 12

Reginald Dyer

Question 13

Dates of the Opium Wars?

Answer 13

1st - 1839-1842

2nd - 1856-1860

Question 14

Major commodity exported by George Goldie from Nigeria

Answer 14

Palm Oil

Question 15

Treaty that legitimised British control of Malaya in 1876 - through a British resident under the Sultan

Answer 15

Treaty of Pangkor

Question 16

Name given to Kaiser Wilhelm II’s congratulatory communication to the Boers in 1896?

Answer 16

Kruger Telegram