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| What first brought the English to India? |
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| What major problem faced the English in India? How was the problem solved? |
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| The French. It was solved at the battle of Plassey we the French and Indians were defeated. |
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| What did the East India company take over land? |
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| (1) to protect its trade and employees from Indian violence, (2) to provide stable governments for the Indian frontiers and (3) to satisfy greed. |
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| In what year did the British government take control of India? What caused the takeover? |
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| 1858. The Sepoy Mutiny caused the takeover. |
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| What was British rule in India called? |
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| What countries are included in South Asia? |
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| Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka |
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| What climate feature brings yearly rains? |
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| What mountain ranges run down the sides of the Indian peninsula? |
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| What attitude did the British have toward the Indians? |
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| What does the word sahib mean? |
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| List 2 things that the British gained from controlling Indian? |
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| (1) economic advantage, (2) opportunity to help others, (3) opportunity to apply new learning and technology. (any two) |
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| List three things that India gained though British control? |
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| (1) improved learning and technology for agriculture (2) industry, (3) transportation, (4) education; (5) missions. |
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| What religions did the people of India follow? |
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| Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam and variations of these. |
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| What problems in farming faced the Indians |
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| primitive methods and monsoons. |
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| What was the best farming improvement the British brought to India? |
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| how did the British help in time of famine? |
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| by buiding an emergency relief plan to transport food on railroads to the worst areas. |
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| List three industries the British built in India. |
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| cotton mills, jute factories, ironworks, steelworks. |
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| Why was the railroad important to India? List two reasons that the Indians did not like the railroad. |
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| travel more pleasant, transport food more quickly, and provided famine relief. The Indians did not like the railroad because it disrupted family and village life by allowing family members to travel far away,and bymaking them break rules of the caste system. |
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| What languagedid the British use in the Indian educational system? Why did this cause conflict between the 2 cultures? |
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| English. The conflict came because it devalued the Indian language and culture. |
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| Give me two laws that help Indian women. |
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| outlawed suttee, removed the prohibion against the remarriage of a widow. |
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| Why did the East India Company not allow missionaries into its territory? |
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| they thought it would harm their trade by angering the Indians. |
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| Who was the first missionary to India? |
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| How did Mrs. Marshman work with the Indian women? |
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| opening schools for them. |
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| What did Christians do to prove that the 19th century was the "Great Century of Christian Missions"? |
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| forming missionary societies to send missionaries to foreing fields. |
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| Battle of Plassey? What role did Robert Clive play? |
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| 1757 where the British defeated the leading Indian prince with only 3,000 men. Robert Clive routed a disorganized Indian force of 80,000. The victory at Plassey broke France's strength in India. |
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| What was the Sepoy Mutiny? |
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| 1857-1858 as a result of the Indians' fear and discontent about some of the changes the British were making on traditional Indian life. The sepoys thought that the missionaries wanted to make them unclean so that they would be more willing to convert, |
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| What was the Charter Act? |
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| 1814 which gave the crown control over all that the East India company possessed. The final takeover came in response to the uprising of Indian soldiers. |
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| What is the General Enlistment Act? |
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| required troops to serve anywhere the British deemed necessary, even across the sea in Burma where they would be forcd to mingle with other castes. |
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| What is the Empress of India? |
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| ruler appointed by Queen Victoria to rule India. They lived in splendor of past emperors. They rode about the capital on a bejewed elephant with many servants following. |
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| covered one-quarter of the globe in the 19th century. |
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| winds that bring rain during one season. |
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| when you burn a widow because she was not allowed to remarry. When British rule came this act became illegal/ |
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| "Son of India". He was a British citizen and a defender against critics of the British Empire. He was born in Bombay (1865-1936) while his father worked as a art teacher. His family moved back to England when he was 6 but, returned as an adult and worked as a newspaper reporter from 1882-1889. He began to write stories and poems that earned him wealth and fame. Kipling made India the central theme of his works |
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| William Ward, missionary, worked with William Carey as a printer. He would type and print copies of new Bible translations. |
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| Baptist Missionary Society |
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| sent missionaries to foreign fields. They sent William Carey and his partners. |
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| On what river is Calcutta located? |
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| Which East India Company port is located on the Arabian Sea? |
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| Near which East India Company port is Ceylon located? |
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| What Indian river flows into Arabian Sea? |
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| The British faced what problems in ruling India? |
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| its size, its languages, its poverty, its religions. |
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| What agricultural improvements did the British bring to India? |
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| irragation canals, introduction of fertilizer, and improvement of the tea industry. |
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| What raw materials did India provide Britian? |
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