The British Empire

Question 0

How did industry help Britain keep an Empire?

Answer 0

The British became very rich from textile companies because they were able to import cotton easier and cheaper. This would allow them to make mor material to sell on the many other people in the British Empire.

Question 1

What four things allowed the British to take and keep an Empire?

Answer 1

Trade
Navy
Exploration
Industry

Question 2

What year did the East India Company’s rule of India come to an end?

Answer 2

1858

Question 3

How did exploration help Britain take an Empire?

Answer 3

British Explorers help Britain take an Empire because they would explore uncharted land for the British to conquor. The explorers would have to make sure that the natives of the land didn’t have any modern weapons to fight back with otherwise it would be pointless trying to invade them.

Question 4

What was the total population of the British Empire?

Answer 4

305,347,924

Question 5

What countries and colonies did the British rule?

Answer 5

New Zeland, Australia and the rest of Australasia
Canada
Wales
Cape Colonies
India

Question 6

What year did the Indian mutiny start?

Answer 6

1857

Question 7

How many months of fighting took place before the British started to regain control of India?

Answer 7

14

Question 8

How did the a navy help Britain take and keep an Empire?

Answer 8

The British navy was the most powerful navy in the world so it was able to win sea battles to take over countries. It could also transport goods and troops to colonies around the world in the Empire so that Britain could have a strong military force. The navy would also police the seas from pirates.

Question 9

Why did the Indian mutiny start?

Answer 9

The British started using pork and beef fat to grease the bullets of Indian sepoys. To the Hindu sepoys a cow was a sacred animal and to a Muslim sepoy a pig was a dirty animal. Both elisions saw this as an attack on Indian customs by the British.

Question 10

What happened to 85 sepoys who refused to use the bullets?

Answer 10

They were chained together and publicly disgraced before being sentenced to 10 years hard labour.

Question 11

What happened to some British officers at the beginning of the mutiny?

Answer 11

They were shot by the sepoys.

Question 12

How did trade help Britain take and keep an Empire?

Answer 12

Britain had lots of goods to trade with other countries such as weapons an cloth so they could make lots of money by trading with other nations in the British Empire.

Question 13

What became the official language of India?

Answer 13

English.

Question 15

What year did the British Government’s rule of India end?

Answer 15

1947

Question 16

What did the British change in India over education?

Answer 16

The education system was changed to the British one so that the Indians could learn about British literatures and traditions.

Question 17

Which year did Britain defeat France in a battle over India?

Answer 17

1763

Question 18

What were Britain’s opinions if the Indian Mutiny?

Answer 18

The Indians were ungrateful of the benefits the British Empire would bring to them.

Question 19

What two cites did the rebels take over during the Indian Mutiny?

Answer 19

Delhi and Cawnpore.

Question 20

Give four reasons why Britain were able to gain an Empire.

Answer 20

Weapons
Navy
Island
Conquest

Question 20

What were the pull factors for going to live in another country?

Answer 20

Higher wages
Skilled workers needed
Cheap land
Steam powered vehicles to make journeys quicker, cheaper and easier.
Churches and the Government paid the fairs of emigration
Gold was discovered in the Americas, Africa and Austrailia.

Question 21

What were India’s opinions if the Indian Mutiny?

Answer 21

The Indians saw it as a defence of their religions and traditions. They also defended themselves against a violent British ruler.

Question 22

What were the push factors for leaving Britain?

Answer 22

Unemployment
Poor living conditions in the cities
Potato famine in Ireland 1845-6
Peasant farmers being forced off the land by owners in the Scottish Highlands

Question 25

What is emigration?

Answer 25

The process of leaving your home in one country to go and live in another country.

Question 28

Give five reasons why Britain wanted an Empire.

Answer 28

Trading Posts
Tea
Convicts
Sugar
Fur

Question 29

Which sepoys stayed loyal to the British army?

Answer 29

The Sikh soldiers.

Question 31

How did Britain start to take over parts of India?

Answer 31

When the ruler died without a male heir, the British took over instead of looking for an Indian noble.

Question 32

By 1856, how much of India was ruled by The East India Company?

Answer 32

60%

Question 33

What was ‘Suttee’?

Answer 33

The Indian custom of when a women’s husband died, she killed herself so that she could be with him again.

Question 34

What happened to the jobs in India?

Answer 34

All the best ones were given to the British people creating great poverty in India.

Question 35

What happened to the textile industry?

Answer 35

The British took all of the raw materials away from India and processed them in Britain. Then the cloth was taken back to India to be sold, making many Indians lose their jobs.

Question 36

What is a push factor?

Answer 36

Something that pushes pele away from the country.

Question 37

What is a pull factor?

Answer 37

A factor that pulls someone towards another country.

Question 38

Who tried to change the official language of India to Christianity?

Answer 38

Christian missionaries.

Question 39

Which year did Britain arrive in India?

Answer 39

1612

Question 41

What did the East India Company stop being in 1773?

Answer 41

A private commercial company.