Relations with indigenous people

Question 1

When did Parliament take full control of the British East India Company

Answer 1

1858

Question 2

When was the Education Act made

Answer 2

1870

Question 3

What year was the percentage 58.2 of Indian people illiterate

Answer 3

1872

Question 4

When was the discovery of diamonds near Kimberley (West Griqualand) on the Orange River triggered a diamond rush.

Answer 4

1867

Question 5

When did Britain annex Basutoland?

Answer 5

1868

Question 6

When did Britain have a major territorial dispute with the Orange Free State (which was an independent Boer republic in South Africa).

Answer 6

1869

Question 7

When did Britain annex West Griqualand

Answer 7

1871

Question 8

When did Britain annex East Griqualand

Answer 8

1874

Question 9

When did Britain propose a federation of British and Boer territories

Answer 9

1875

Question 10

When did Britain pay the Boers £90,000 in order to settle the Orange Free State’s claims to the diamonds in Kimberly.

Answer 10

1876

Question 11

When was the war between Britain and the Xhosa tribe

Answer 11

Between 1877-1878

Question 12

What year was Boer independence

Answer 12

1880

Question 13

When did the Boers turn on the British and attacked the British garrisons across the Transvaal

Answer 13

1880

Question 14

When were the British defeated by the Boers at Majuba Hill

Answer 14

1881

Question 15

When were the British forced to sign the Convention of Pretoria

Answer 15

1881

Question 16

When were the British forced to sign the convention of London

Answer 16

1884

Question 17

When did the Germans arrive in South-West Africa

Answer 17

1884

Question 18

When was gold discovered at Witwatersrand near Transvaal capital of Pretoria.

Answer 18

1886

Question 19

When was the Kaal newspaper (India) created

Answer 19

1898

Question 20

When did Bal Tilak use his paper to defend the boys and was arrested

Answer 20

1908

Question 21

When was the Young India Society created

Answer 21

1903

Question 22

When was the Bengali activism was successful as the regions were reunited

Answer 22

1911

Question 23

When did Khalid bin Barghash (not to be confused with Sultan Barghash who dealt with Kirk) led a 3-day uprising against the British-supported Sultan in Zanziba

Answer 23

1896

Question 24

When did the Governor of the Protectorate of Sierra Leone (Frederick Cardew) introduced a hut tax (a tax on natives’ dwellings)

Answer 24

1898

Question 25

When did the Mahdist Sudanese forces besieged Khartoum, a city where British and Egyptian forces were stationed.

Answer 25

1884-1885

Question 26

When did the British defeat the Sudanese at the Battle of Omdurman

Answer 26

1898

Question 27

When did the Gezira Scheme, which was one of the world’s largest irrigation schemes begin

Answer 27

1911

Question 28

When did the discovery of gold on the Rand in the Transvaal encouraged Britain’s private chartered companies to seize control of the region.

Answer 28

1886

Question 29

When did the British and the Boers settlers met at the Bloemfontein Conference

Answer 29

1899

Question 30

When was the treaty of Vereeniging

Answer 30

1902

Question 31

When did the Cape Colony, the Transvaal, Orange River Colony and Natal voted to establish a Union of South Africa and for it to be an independent Dominion

Answer 31

1910

Question 32

When did the Transvaal become a self governing colony

Answer 32

1906

Question 33

When did the Orange Free state become a self governing colony

Answer 33

1907

Question 34

When did the Shah sold Iran’s tobacco industry to British businessmen for £15,000. The British company, Imperial Tobacco now owned all shops selling tobacco in Iran..

Answer 34

1891