trade and commerce 1890-1914

Question 1

what percentage of British exports went to India?

Answer 1

20%

Question 2

when was the imperial federation league disbanded?

Answer 2

1893

Question 3

what did the disband of imperial federation league reflect?

Answer 3

a declining interest in the empire’s commercial importance

Question 4

what percentage of imports came to Britain from the colonies of the empire?

Answer 4

24.9%

Question 5

what percentage of imports came to britain from other countries?

Answer 5

75.1%

Question 6

what percentage of exports went to the empire?

Answer 6

37.2%

Question 7

what percentage of exports went to other countries?

Answer 7

62.8%

Question 8

when percentage of foodstuff did the empire provide Britain with?

Answer 8

10%

Question 9

the empires total trade in 1896?

Answer 9

£745million

Question 10

how much trade in 1896 took place between Britain and the countries of the empire?

Answer 10

£183million

Question 11

1.2% of British exports went to…

Answer 11

the whole of tropical Africa

Question 12

the argument of anti-imperialists regarding the middle-class:

Answer 12

empire cost the middle-class people more than it benefitted them. supporting the cost of imperial defence in their taxes

Question 13

the argument of anti-imperialists regarding British industry

Answer 13

empire was blamed for Britain’s failure to modernise its industry and was blamed for holding back developments that would have helped raise living standards for workers

Question 14

example of how empire was holding back British development

Answer 14

while Britain was relying on rubber imports from Asia or Africa, the French, Russians and Germans had successfully started their own synthetic rubber production by 1910.

Question 15

British investment

Answer 15

doubled from £2billion to £4billion between 1900-1913

Question 16

the gold standard

Answer 16

adopted by the Bank of England 1821 and my 1908 forced other nations to adopt it althogh not all e.g persia, central america and china

Question 17

what would the proposed imperial customs union by Chamberlain result in?

Answer 17

a boost to imperial trade through mutual custom agreements and protective tariffs against imports from non-imperial powers

Question 18

why did Chamberlain believe that imperial trade was preferable

Answer 18

because it would be strategically reliable in times of emergency

Question 19

where did the resistance to chamberlain’s proposals come from

Answer 19

manufacturing, shipping and banking industries

Question 20

what food and clothing did south africa provide?

Answer 20

wool and sugar

Question 21

what food did canada provide?and what did australia provide?

Answer 21

wheat and australia provided dairy produce

Question 22

what non-imperial world was britian trade growing with?and when?what was imported?

Answer 22

USA in 1894 imported 64 million hundredweight of wheat

Question 23

how much of britian’s food supply did the empire provide?

Answer 23

less 10%

Question 24

why did britian lag behind in chemical and electrical enginnering?

Answer 24

due to poor investments and productivity