the british empire

Question 1

What is the definition of empire?

Answer 1

an extensive group of states or countries ruled over by a single monarch an oligarchy or a sovereign state

Question 2

What is the definition of Sati?

Answer 2

Hindu custom in India where a window was burned to Ashes alive on her dead husband’s pyre

Question 3

What is the definition of Infanticide?

Answer 3

the mass killing of unwanted children

Question 4

positives of British rule in India - humanity

Answer 4

Abolition of sati and infanticide, Destruction of criminal gangs, charitable aids in times of famine

Question 5

positives of British rule in India - Civilisation

Answer 5

Education yet only partial is a blessing. it leads gradually to the destruction of superstition & many evils

Question 6

positives of British rule in India - government

Answer 6

Peace and order, freedom of speech and Free Press + equal justice but sometimes favouring Europeans

Question 7

positives of British rule in India - Wealth

Answer 7

Railways + irrigation. development of few valuable products such as tea, coffee ,silk and indigo(a blue dye). increase of exports.

Question 8

negatives of British rule in India - government

Answer 8

The British broke their pledges to give native a fair share in the running of their own country. there is an utter disregard to the feelings and views of natives.

Question 9

negatives of British rule in India - wealth

Answer 9

Creating new taxes without improving people’s ability to pay. there have been famines that the British could have prevented. there has been a loss of manufacturing industry + skill

Question 10

size of east india company army

Answer 10

240,000 soldiers(that is twice the size of the british army itself)

Question 11

name of soldiers in east india company

Answer 11

Soldiers were indian and were known as sepoys.

Question 12

year of sepoy rebellion

Answer 12

1857

Question 13

Where did the Sepoy rebellion start?

Answer 13

Bengal

Question 14

what happened in the sepoy rebellion

Answer 14

Sepoys shot their commanding british officers and then marched to new dehli ingniting similar rebellions all across india. It took the company 13 months to regain control woth brutal force

Question 15

What are the causes of the sepoy rebellion

Answer 15

The Sepoys found themselves fighting fellow indians. The british demanded high taxes + rents from indians. Indians were victims of economic oppression. British used violence + tortue to collect + keep the taxes. People with complaints about the british weren’t allowed to leave their homes. Introduction of the lee enfield rifle

Question 16

Lee enfield rifle

Answer 16

loading this involved biting the end of the cartrige which was lubricated with pig and cow fat. hindus saw cows as sacred and mislims saw pigs as dirty so soldies refused to use the rifle

Question 17

what happened after the rebellion

Answer 17

In 1858 the east india company was banned and then india was ruled by the british raj

Question 18

decolonisation meaning

Answer 18

the action or process of a state withdrawing itself from a former colony making it an independent country

Question 19

negatives of British rule in egypt

Answer 19

Many ordinary Egyptians resented being ruled by the British in the early 20th century there was a small but growing independence movement

Question 20

positives of British rule in egypt

Answer 20

Wealthy elites primarily accepted British rule they send their children britain to be educated

Question 21

positives of British rule in west africa

Answer 21

Britain ended its role in slave trade in the early 1800s

Question 22

positives of British rule in east africa

Answer 22

Very good treatment of locals following World War One

Question 23

positives of British rule in south africa

Answer 23

Britain built a great deal of infrastructure to support Imperial efforts

Question 24

negatives of British rule in south africa

Answer 24

British imprisoned thousands of Dutch boers in concentration camps

Question 25

negatives of British rule in west africa

Answer 25

Britain was heavily of all involved in the slave trade in the 1700s

Question 26

negatives of British rule in east africa

Answer 26

There was a lot of racism & killing of innocent people

Question 27

countries in british east africa

Answer 27

Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania

Question 28

countries in british west africa

Answer 28

Gambia, Ghana, Nigeria, parts of Cameroon

Question 29

countries in british south africa

Answer 29

South Africa, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Mana, Malawi, Swaziland and Zambia

Question 30

things in decline of british empire

Answer 30

1: Colonies become dominions
2: Independence movements spingaround enpire in early 20th century
3: The 1st &2nd world wars place an immense financial strain on the empire
4: after WW2 people slowly withdrew their support for the empire
5: In the 1980s canada+austrailia severed their final constitutional linkswith britain. Britain also returned Hong kong to China as the 99 year lease expired.

Question 31

west african squadron

Answer 31

west african squadron