Empire Facts Hoe Dont Know

Question 1

What did repeal of navigation acts lead to in terms of exports

Answer 1

141/181 million outside empire
55 million tonnes of cotton
Capital 5-50 million

Question 2

Ireland ?

Answer 2

1779
Remove trade restrictions
1.9-4.9 million Irish imports

Question 3

China and trade ?

Answer 3

Wanted to pay with industrial goods, china wanted gold leading to negative balance of trade for Britain, Britain flooded china with opium, 1839- blockade 1000 tonnes of opium burned.

Britain hits with gunboat diplomacy
1842 - destroys navy, makes china sign treaty of Nanking - shanghai and 21 million debt

Question 4

Suez Canal ?

Answer 4

1875
44% 4 million from rothschilds

3/4 tonnage was British 1874
88% of British tonnage went through 1882
China and India trade
Made Cape Town obsolete apart from sailing ships
Dividend increases 5% to 33%

Question 5

Gradual move to free trade

Answer 5

1779 Ireland - remove restrictions - adam smith - 1.9-4.9 Irish exports to U.K.
1830s - whigs increase electorate making pleasing consumers more targeted in politics
1842 - anti corn league
1846 - corn laws abolished
1842-46- 1200 tariffs removed by Peel
+ entrepôts

Question 6

Naval bases taken for geopolitical reasons

Answer 6

1782 Gibraltar - maintained stop french getting into med
1815 - Cape Town - block trade to china and India
1839- Aden - maintained because of location with suez - foreign powers had to go past - protect British trade , ensure dominance

Question 7

Economic result of loss

Of American colonies

Answer 7

232million debt 
Imports drop 26% 
Exports drop 18% 
However trade reached pre war levels in 5 years 
War was good for textiles and navy 
Special relationship established

Question 8

When was hms victory commissioned and decommissioned vs the use of warrior ?

Answer 8

1765-1830

Warrior 1861 , out of date by 1873 - all metal no sails devestation

Question 9

Infrastructure built under Macquarie

Answer 9

Rum hospital 
265 buildings 
Houses down hawksbury river 
Expansion into blue mountains 1813 - cultivable soil and road built 
Toll roads

Question 10

When did Campbell establish free trade for whaling and sealing

Answer 10

1805

Question 11

What percentage of immigrants immigrating to Canada were Irish

Answer 11

60%

Question 12

What scheme could Irish immigrants access

Answer 12

Ops township scheme

Question 13

Describe the largest gatherings in Canadian rebellions

Answer 13

Montreal and Toronto - 1000 people

Question 14

Describe power of company army by 1829

Answer 14

3 private armies with artillery and canon
200,000 troops by 1800

Battle of plessey - divani rights
Annexations - Punjab 1840s
Subsidary alliances
- Mysore after Mysore war 1798-99

Question 15

Cornwallis’ 98 regulations

Answer 15

Introduced zamidar class loyal to British

Question 16

Papineau’s 92 proposals and response ?

Answer 16

Called for consitutional reform and remove legislative council

Response - Russell resolutions 10 - dismissed watered down

Question 17

When was the widows remarriage act and religious disabilities act

Answer 17

Remarriage 1850

Disabilities 1855

Question 18

Enlistment act

Answer 18

1856

Crossing water in war - pollute Hindu caste

Question 19

What did Campbell do in the mutiny in India

Answer 19

Good tactician

Relieved Lucknow against 20,000 rebels

Question 20

Evidence for failure of Indian rebellion to spread

Answer 20

1/4 Bengali sepoys revolt
Failure to spread to 2/3 India
Punjab sikhs fight for the British

Question 21

Bengal rent act

Answer 21

1859
Land rights given to tennants for first time without upsetting zamidar class

However landlords can still raise rents

Question 22

How many killed or sent to VDL as a result from Canadian rebellions

Answer 22

29 executed
(17,12)
140 VDL

Question 23

How much territory did Wellseley increase EIC land

Answer 23

243,000kms2

Question 24

Public work schemes ? Moncrieff ?

Answer 24

385 miles of canal and 100 bridges

Question 25

What percentage of Americ supported patriots

Answer 25

45%

20% loyal