History Questions

In the mid-1850s, a new ... rifle was introduced into India that required a soldier to bite off the ends of greased cartridges in order to load the weapon.

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

Displays of exotic colonial peoples and animals, painted panoramas and dioramas, and museums also created imperial knowledge for the British public, as did official exhibitions such as the Colonial and Indian Exhibition of ... where attendees could purchase booklets on the "History, Products, and Natural Resources" of all the colonies and dominions.

Announcing its implementation, the Queen gave a speech, her Proclamation to India, in which she promised her Indian subjects her affection and respect, and ... under British law. Still, the consequences of the rebellion were lasting. The British military presence in India was .. and British Indian society became more racially and culturally divided.

The third critical imperial conflict was the South African War (...). The British had established their first colonial presence in South Africa in 1795, when they seized the ... from the Netherlands.

Following an unpopular legal verdict, several hundred Jamaicans rioted outside the ... courthouse. The police responded with force, and both rioters and police were killed. The House of Assembly was abolished, as blacks were clearly unready, the British claimed, for representative government.

Furthermore, a movement for Indian independence for Britain emerged. In 1885 the ... was founded by professional, middle-class, high-caste Hindus; this organization eventually led the movement for Indian independence, promised in a ... Declaration and achieved in ....

From 1870 until 1914 imperial growth was even faster and more aggressive. During this period the British Empire grew most quickly in ...(where new colonies included Zululand, Rhodesia, Egypt, Sudan, Somaliland, Kenya, and Uganda) because of Britain's participation in the "scramble for Africa," in which ...

Early nineteenth-century abolitionist arguments that nonwhites and whites shared a common humanity were by the ...and other arguments that posited a racial hierarchy and emphasized differences between races

Degrees of political control ranged from those that had British forms of government (such as ...), to those that were ruled indirectly, through private companies or local elites (such as ...), to those where Britain dominated the economy without having any official colonial presence (such as ...).

One central idea around which empire was built was that of ... as a fundamental human difference

Between 1820 and 1870 the British empire expanded at a steady rate, shifted its orientation ..., and increased its number of nonwhite subiects.Britain acquired parts of India, the ...settlements (Singapore, Penang, and Malacca, in 1826), western and southern Australia (in the 1820s), the Falkland Islands (in 1833, now part of Argentina), and Hong Kong (in 1841), and opened the Suez Canal (in...).

Colonies could be valuable as part of a power struggle: Britain Strove to conquer... only to prevent Russia, which it viewed as a potenital world power, from doing the same

India was ... valuable, whereas the Suez Canal and Afghanistan were...important. Australia, New Zealand, and Canada had large white populations, but only a very few Britons ever lived in east Africa.

And although most Britons supported empire, not all did. Early in the nineteenth century, Baptist missionaries and ... often contested official policies. Later on pacifists and many ... opposed the South African War as unnecessary and unjust.

In spite of Chinese anti-opium laws, a large portion of the East India Company's profits came from the sale of...When the Chinese government sought to block this illegal trade in its own country, the British successfully fought the Opium Wars from ... (acquiring Hong Kong in 1841) and again from 1856 to 1860 to ensure its "right" to sell opium (and spread opiate addiction) in China.

The Crimean War (...) and the Indian Rebellion both revealed that the army was too ..., lacked training, and was poorly administered. What was the response to this?

Following Britain's final victory over... at the Battle of Waterloo, the British navy had fewer battles to fight in the nineteenth century than it had in the eighteenth century.However, because it was a symbol of patriotic pride and a key aspect of military strength, the state continued to support a navy far larger than any other.

Non-white men were often depicted as lazy and ..., and therefore inferior to virile white men; these images were used to justify imperial rule by British men.

From the 1850s ..." ships replaced wooden-hulled ones.