trade and commerce 1857-1890

Question 1

between 1886 and 1890 what was differnt aout the outflow of money?

Answer 1

it was greater than the investments at home about 40% british investments between 1857-1890 went to imperial territoties

Question 2

how much investment did india receive up to 1890?

Answer 2

20%

Question 3

what did britian do that aided communication, where did it reach to? and waht did they do in canada in the 1870s?

Answer 3

laid telegraph network across most of the world which even reached india, transatlantic cables laid in canada

Question 4

what types of services did britain provide colonies?

Answer 4

banking and investments

Question 5

what did britains intoduction of free trade in 1846 increase?

Answer 5

imports and exports

Question 6

how much of the world textiles and metals did britain produce?

Answer 6

half

Question 7

what large project in canada did britain invest in?

Answer 7

in 1867 saw the construction of the walland canal to overcome height differnces which aided in the transportation of goods

Question 8

what did britain telegraph developments help to do? an example?

Answer 8

improve communication and spped up trade. for example the transatlantic cables in canada in the 1870s and in india in the 1880s

Question 9

what material was britain able to produce at low cost which no other country could?and what did this provide?

Answer 9

iron, a modernised engineering industry which could produce the resources to contruct rarilways

Question 10

what did britain influence in native industry do? an example?

Answer 10

caused there to be limited development in industry , like in india were britain deliberately suppressed the indegenous cotton industry to promote britian’s textile industry

Question 11

who were the profit from the gold mines from 1886 and the diamond mines from 1867 of the transvaal and orange free state kept with?

Answer 11

the whites while the bantu’s were used for manuel labour

Question 12

whos interest did the charted companies set up in the 1880s act in favour of?

Answer 12

the interest of the british and not the indigenous people

Question 13

what did the opium war of 1859 do to china?

Answer 13

forced them to open up their trade ports and lead to british gain of hong kong

Question 14

whos goods did colonies become dependant on?example?

Answer 14

british goods, 40% of the total british textile production went to india

Question 15

who did the real profit stay with?

Answer 15

the british traders

Question 16

after 1875 how much of british imports came from colonies and how much of british manufactured goodd did they buy and what kind of goods where these?

Answer 16

20% and they bought back 33% of british manufactured goods which was less benefical to indigenous people

Question 17

what happened to the egyptian cotton industry?why?

Answer 17

it was cruhsed, in order to protect the british cotton industry

Question 18

in south africa what were the bantu people forced to live in?

Answer 18

segregated housing communities

Question 19

what was happening to the native people?

Answer 19

they were being exploited for their resources