Trade And Commerce

Question 1

Chapter 1: imports and exports from Empire

Answer 1

20% import
33% export

Question 2

Imperial Federation League created

Answer 2

1884

Question 3

Imperial Federation League disbanded

Answer 3

1893

Question 4

Suez Canal opened

Answer 4

1869

Question 5

Disraeli bought Pasha’s 44% share of Suez Canal

Answer 5

1875

Question 6

Colonial Conference 1887

Answer 6

Discussed the issue of whether there should be some special trading preference between colonies - creating a ‘free trade empire’
Turned down by Britain

Question 7

Colonies imposing tariffs against imported manufactures (including from Britain) [Chapter 1]

Answer 7

Canada in 1859
Australia in the 1860s

Question 8

Development of the triple expansion steam engine

Answer 8

1870s

Question 9

By the 1870s up the Niger

Answer 9

Several British companies were sending steam-trading vessels

Question 10

Where canals were built during Chapter 1

Answer 10

India: new canals developed on a huge scale after 1857
Canada: after 1867 canals were deepened, Welland Canal built
Egypt: Suez Canal opened in 1869

Question 11

Discovery of diamonds in Southern Africa

Answer 11

1867

Question 12

Discovery of gold in Southern Africa

Answer 12

1886

Question 13

Goods produced by tropical colonies

Answer 13

Sugar, coffee, cocoa, groundnuts, copra, palm oil

Question 14

Most renowned Indian crop

Answer 14

Tea

Question 15

Formation of the Kimberley Diamond Syndicate

Answer 15

1890

Question 16

The Long Depression

Answer 16

c1873 - c1896

Question 17

North Borneo Trading Company received a charter

Answer 17

1881

Question 18

Royal Niger Company received a charter

Answer 18

1886

Question 19

The Imperial British East Africa Company received a charter

Answer 19

1888

Question 20

The British South Africa Company received a charter

Answer 20

1889

Question 21

South Africa’s diamond mines in relation to global production

Answer 21

They were 90% of global diamond production and owned by Cecil Rhodes

Question 22

Traders (Chapter 1)

Answer 22

Cecil Rhodes
William Mackinnon
George Goldie

Question 23

Goldie persuaded all the British trading firms on the Niger river to join forces with his family firm to create a single company, the United African Company

Answer 23

1879
Controlled 30 trading posts

Question 24

Worth of India by 1914

Answer 24

Represented a large market
20% of Britain’s total exports
Worth almost £150 million to businesses

Question 25

Amount of beef from Canada that made up Britain’s total amount by 1914

Answer 25

10% of Britain’s beef

Question 26

Amount of wheat flour from Canada that made up Britain’s total amount by 1914

Answer 26

15% of Britain’s wheat flour

Question 27

Imports from West Africa (Chapter 2)

Answer 27

Cocoa, rubber, timber, peanuts, palm oil

Question 28

Amount of wheat imported in 1894

Answer 28

Imported 64 million hundredweight of wheat 30.7 million from the USA 17.2 million from Russia Only 3.6 million from Canada

Question 29

1896: Empire’s total trade

Answer 29

Worth £745 million

Question 30

1896: Trade between countries of Empire

Answer 30

Worth £183 million

Question 31

1897: Tropical Africa with British exports

Answer 31

Took only 1.2% of British exports

Question 32

British investment between 1900 and 1913

Answer 32

Doubled from £2 billion to £4 billion

Question 33

Where British capital went more to

Answer 33

USA India

Question 34

The Colonial Loans and Colonial Stocks Act 1899 and 1900

Answer 34

Facilitated a number of infrastructure projects Including rail links into the African interior from the ports of Lagos and Mombasa

Question 35

Joseph Chamberlain’s main idea

Answer 35

Imperial preference

Question 36

Canada’s own trading agreements (before WW1)

Answer 36

Germany France Italy Japan

Question 37

Swadeshi (self-sufficiency) movement in India, following Partition of Bengal

Answer 37

British textiles and goods were boycotted and burned in streets

Question 38

1906 general election

Answer 38

Public roundly rejected Chamberlain’s proposals - food prices would have increased Favoured Liberal Party’s commitment to free trade

Question 39

Railway Joseph Chamberlain initiated

Answer 39

Uganda Railway