History Questions

There were public celebrations when British forces lifted the siege of Mafeking in May of ....

The Empire Settlement Act of ... gave over 400,000 people financial assistance to help them emigrate to various parts of the empire, principally ..., ... and Canada.

Two important colonies, ..., were in the Pacific. Both were... colonies, valued for their sheep, fertile farmland, timber, and flax.

A similar level of aggression would help to begin the Crimean War in ..., in which the French, Ottomans, and British battled Russia on the Crimean Peninsula. In this case, Britain was intent on ... Russian influence in the Mediterranean and the .... However, neither British politicians nor the British military were adequately prepared for the war.

Three particularly important conficts - the ..., the..., and the South African War - were Victorian turning points.

..., valued for its fur and timber trades, followed a similar pattern of decimation of the native population and of an interracial frontier society replaced by a domesticated white society.

In contrast to its investment in the expansion of empire, Britain was reluctant, following the war-ridden eighteenth century, to engage in wars with other .... As we saw in Chapter 2, Conservative leaders Benjamin Disrael and Lord Salisbury both pursued a policy of splendid isolation from European entanglements.

In 1866 public opinion was against Eyre, but by ...he enjoyed broad popular support. Overall, the combination of the Indian Rebellion, the Maori Wars, and the Morant Bay Rebellion had convinced the white British public and government that nonwhite natives were ..., and that governing them with a firm hand was more important than protecting their political rights.

The British public at home was kept well informed about Indian "atrocities" such as the massacre at ... (now Kanpur), in which prisoners - including women and children - were thrown down a well and left to die

1867 was also the year that the Second Reform Act separated respectable from unrespectable working-class men, granting the former but not the later the ...

In the 1830s and 1840s, many Cape Colony... chose to migrate further inland on what came to be called the "Great Trek" and established two Boer states, the .... and the ..., independent of British control. However, the discovery of gold and diamonds in those regions in the 1860s and 1870s sparked British interest. Thousands of British prospectors came from the Cape Colony and Britain to the Transvaal, and as these British settlers (called Vitlanders) came to outnumber Boers in the Transvaal, friction between Britons and Afrikaners rose.

War was declared by the British in October ... Although many Liberal Party leaders opposed the war, it was at first extremely popular in Britain, enjoying broad support across class lines and in particular among young lower middle-class men

Lower middle-class and working-class people were the largest group of Britons in the empire (though less study has been done of their experiences). Lower middle-class and working-class men went abroad seeking work or the opportunity to become ..., something that was no longer possible in Britain. In addition, they often served in the... or the military, or worked on large projects such as railway construction.

Conservative leaders Benjamin Disrael and ...both pursued a policy of splendid .... from European entanglements. What was the exception?

As technologies of communication and transportation improved, more Africans and Asians came to Britain (where they probably remained concentrated in urban port areas. Yet nonwhites were rarely considered ..., even if they had been born in Britain.

Some items (such as authentic Kashmiri shawls) were expensive, but many were not; working-class Britons considered at least two imperial items, ..., to be staples.

The British made a number of concessions and reparations, and the Boer republics were absorbed into the British Empire but granted a limited autonomy that ultimately led to the establishment of a dominion state, the ..., in 1910.

One result was the ... Reforms to the Army, which were a response to the military's poor performance in the war; created an Expeditionary Force trained to fight in overseas wars.

Parliament passed the .., transferring British power over India from the East India Company, whose ineptitude was primarily blamed for the mutiny, to the crown.

From the 1850s, the start of the ... in Australia changed male emigration. Emigration now meant the chance for adventure and immediate success through luck rather than a punishing work ethic