Chapter 25 Lesson 3

Question 1

Who led India before the Brits

Answer 1

Mogul rulers

Question 2

Who owned India at first

Answer 2

British East India Company

Question 3

What were sepoys

Answer 3

Indian soldiers fighting for the British East India Company

Question 4

What year did the Sepoy Mutiny occur

Answer 4

1857

Question 5

What did the British call the rebellion

Answer 5

Sepoy Mutiny

Question 6

What did the Indians call the rebellion

Answer 6

First War of Independence

Question 7

What did neutrals call the rebellion

Answer 7

the Great Rebellion

Question 8

What caused the revolt

Answer 8

the new rifle cartridges were greased with cow and pig fat which Muslims and Hindus cant use

Question 9

What happened in the rebellion

Answer 9

Sepoys near an army post in Meerut refused to load their guns so they were charged with Mutiny and put in prison

Question 10

Did the Muslims and Hindus work together?

Answer 10

no

Question 11

What did the rebellion lead to

Answer 11

British East India Company transferred India to the British Government

Question 12

When did Queen Victoria become Empress of India

Answer 12

1876

Question 13

What was the Jewel in the Crown to Queen Victoria?

Answer 13

India

Question 14

What did Britain use to govern India

Answer 14

viceroys

Question 15

Who assisted the viceroy?

Answer 15

a British civil service staff

Question 16

What pros did the new British rule bring?

Answer 16

-Order and stability (they were divided by states with different political systems)
-efficient government
-New school system
-Sanitation improved

Question 17

What was the goal of the new education system?

Answer 17

Make soldiers and government servants

Question 18

What did the new system serve?

Answer 18

elite upper-class Indians

Question 19

What percent of the population was illiterate?

Answer 19

90%

Question 20

What was built in India?

Answer 20

Roads, canals, universities, medical centers, and a new postal service

Question 21

in 1853, what opened in India?

Answer 21

India’s first rail network in Bombay

Question 22

Cons of British rule in India

Answer 22

-taxes
-ruined industries
-famine
-good jobs reserved for Brits

Question 23

Zamindars

Answer 23

Indian tax collectors working for the Brits who exploited their power and increased taxes

Question 24

Why did a famine occur?

Answer 24

Because the Brits wanted money from cotton so they made them grow it instead of food and many starved

Question 25

Between 1800 and 1900, how many Indians starved?

Answer 25

30m died of starvation

Question 26

What led to the rise of an Indian nationalist movement

Answer 26

racial tensions between Brits and Indians - Brits didn’t give Indians good jobs regardless of social class.

Question 27

What were the first nationalists like?

Answer 27

upper-class and English-educated, some trained in British law

Question 28

when was the INC formed?

Answer 28

1885

Question 29

Where was the INC formed?

Answer 29

Bombay

Question 30

What did the INC demand?

Answer 30

a share in the governing process

Question 31

Why did Muslims split from the INC and make their own league?

Answer 31

because the INC had Hindu leaders who took up Hindu concerns

Question 32

When was Gandhi born? Where

Answer 32

1869 in Gujarat

Question 33

Gandhi background before moving to India

Answer 33

studied in London, became a lawyer, moved to South Africa to practice and serve Indian workers

Question 34

What did Gandhi’s work in South Africa make him realize?

Answer 34

the exploitation of Indians living in South Africa

Question 35

what did Gandhi’s movement call for?

Answer 35

Nonviolent resistance for independence and better quality of life for the poor

Question 36

What was the Taj Mahal built for?

Answer 36

a tomb for an Indian ruler’s wife

Question 37

What did the British do to the Taj Mahal

Answer 37

partied and had weddings at it and took pieces of it as souvenirs

Question 38

What began the cultural revival?

Answer 38

the creation of a British college in Calcutta

Question 39

What did the local publishing house do in Calcutta

Answer 39

issued textbooks of literature, science, and Sanskrit, dictionaries of Indian languages

Question 40

what did the cultural revival lead to

Answer 40

led to a search of a new national identity and modern literary expression and novels in their native languages

Question 41

What did Indian newspapers do?

Answer 41

used to arouse mass support for independence in the lower-class in their native languages