British Empire - Enquiries 1 & 2

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    British Empire

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    The Indian Mutiny

    Causes:
    - Enfield rifle greased with beef/pork fat
    - Governor-General Dalhousie: Doctrine of Lapse
    - Westernisation Events
    - Managal Padney attacked British officer
    - Sepoys in Meerut resisted and marched to Delhi
    - British reinforcements arrived
    - Cawnpore rebellion massacre
    - British took back Delhi, Kanpur Lucknow Consequences
    - The Devil's Wind
    - Abolition of EIC
    - Reorientation of administration and defence

  • The Government of India Act

    • EIC abolished
    • India passed into direct rule of the British Crown
    • Positions created: Secretary of State, India Council, Viceroy
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    Construction of the Suez Canal

    Frenchman Ferdinand de Lesseps obtained a concession from Egypt to create the Suez Canal Company in 1858
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    American Civil War

    Starved Britain of cotton and made them turn to Egypt

  • Disraeli bought Egypt's share of the Suez Canal

    £4 million
    Isma'il Pasha was in debt and needed money

  • Queen Victoria made Empress of India

  • Isma'il Pasha deposed and replaced by son Tewfiq

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    The Mahdist Revolt

  • Arabi Pasha revolt in Egypt

    Causes
    Tewfiq reduced the army to 2/3 and imposed tax to try save the economy Events
    - 50 Europeans were killed in Alexandria
    - Gladstone sent British forces
    - British defeated Arabi and restored Tewfiq as a puppet ruler Consequences
    - Egypt becomes a client state
    - Major Evelyn Baring was installed as Consul-General
    - Army put under the command of Kitchener
    - Increase in population due to improved sanitation/health services

  • Indian National Congress created

    Form of opposition to British rule

  • Uganda becomes protectorate

  • Uganda railway constructed

    Chinese/Indian indentured labourers
    'Lunatic line'
    Kedong massacre by the Masai
    Tsavo incident by lions

  • Anglo-Ashante war

  • North Nigeria annexed

  • Entente Cordiale between Britain and France

    France respected Britain's rights in Egypt in return for respecting France's rights in Morocco

  • Partition of Bengal by Viceroy Curzon

    Bengal was split into Muslim East and Hindu West because it was too big to administrate
    Hindus that had land in the East were upset

  • South Nigeria annexed

  • Reunification of Bengal by Viceroy Hardinge

    Indian National Congress led strikes and boycotts of British goods under Skrendranath Banerjee

  • Egypt becomes a formal protectorate

    Direct British control

  • WW1 starts

  • Nigeria unified