Study guide for Test 2
People
William Bentinck
Lord Dalhousie
Daniel O'Connell
Robert Peel
John Russell
Amartya Sen
Franz Fanon
David Livingstone
Edward Eyre
Thomas Carlyle
Benjamin Disraeli
Cecil Rhodes
Joseph Chamberlain
Robert Baden-Powell
G. A. Henty
Rudyard Kipling
Emily Hobhouse
J. Hobson
Frederick Lugard
Leonard Woolf
Margery Perham
Mary Kingsley
Eamon de Valera
Mohammed Ali Jinnah
Mahatma Gandhi
Kwame Nkrumah
Jomo Kenyatta
Key terms
| collaboration imperialism of free trade (Robinson & Gallagher) abolition (slave trade/ slavery) the Raj Indian Mutiny-Rebellion sepoy Lucknow Cawnpore (Kanpur) chartered companies indirect rule tools of empire phytopthera infestans Quakers responsible government crown colony government Colonial Laws Validity Act the Great Exhibition Afrikaans Maori monogenesis/ polygenesis Morant Bay Rebellion |
social Darwinism age of high imperialism (aka "new imperialism") Royal Titles Act Berlin Conference jingoism Victoria's Diamond Jubilee Imperial War Cabinet Gallipoli ANZAC Sinn Fein communalism satyagraha dyarchy Indian National Army Suez Crisis apartheid Sharpeville Massacre decolonization partition Balfour Declaration Statute of Westminster Rhodesia |
Documents
Trench, "Realities of Irish Life"
Kipling, "The White Man's Burden" and "Recessional"
The Rudd Concession
The Proclamation of the Irish Republic
Orwell, "Shooting an Elephant"
Nkrumah, "I Speak of Freedom"
The Statute of Westminster
Study guide for Test 1 [key terms drawn from lecture and Levine]
Format/ sample questions (using terms that are not on your list)
I. People [10 questions; 2 points each]
-there will be a bank listing names
-below the bank will be a series of sentences along the lines of:
_____________ I was one of the co-founders of the Anti-Corn Law League and a “poster boy” for the free trade movement.
Answer: Richard Cobden
Walter Ralegh
Richard Hakluyt
John Hawkins
William Molyneux
James Grant
James Cook
Emperor Aurangzeb
Robert Clive
Charles Cornwallis
Thomas Clarkson
William Wilberforce
Oladuah Equiano
Edmund Gibbon Wakefield
Adam Smith
John Lambton, Lord Durham
II. Key terms (20 questions; 2 points each)
The movement perfected the use of extra-parliamentary political activity to pressure the government into reform. It was the first political movement to involve women in significant numbers.
Answer: abolition
| Gaelic Irish Old English New English anglicization mercantilism East India Company indentured labor Jamaica Darien colony New world plantation complex asiento fiscal-military states the Ascendancy Georgia penal laws toleration responsible government crown colony government |
Boers hulks terra nullius Van Diemen's Land diwani Regulating Act trusteeship Permanent Settlement Oudh Somerset Decision Sierra Leone apprenticeship Upper Canada Victoria Treaty of Waitangi Corn Law informal empire free trade |
III. Chronology [3 sets of 3 events; 5 points each]
Put the following events in chronological order, with 1 indicating earliest and 3 indicating latest
__ reign of George III
__ reign of Henry VIII
__ reign of Victoria
answer:
2 reign of George III
1 reign of Henry VIII
3 reign of Victoria
swing to the east
Acts of Union (1707, 1801)
Anglo-Chinese War
Ulster plantation
Glorious Revolution
Upper and Lower Canadian rebellions
War of the Spanish Succession
United Irish Rebellion
sailing of the First Fleet
Seven Years War
War of American Independence
the Great Trek
War of Jenkins Ear/War of the Austrian Succession
IV. Document identification [3 excerpts; 5 points each]
-identify the title, author, and date of the document based on a substantial excerpt
Richard Hakluyt, Discourse of Western Planting (1584)
George III, Royal Proclamation (1763)
James Grant, letter to the Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations
(1764)
British Parliament, Quebec Act (1774)
Oladuah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative (1789)
British and Chinese Governments, Treaty of Nanking
(1842)
V. Geography [10 terms, 1 point each]
Be able to identify: Bight of Biafra, Cape Colony, Sierra Leone, Bengal, Mysore, Bombay, Oudh, New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania), Western Australia, New Zealand, Canadian maritimes, Upper Canada, Lower Canada