British Empire

By Emma_newman

  • loss of American colonies -> swing to the east

  • Britain outlawed slave trade

    exportation of 3 million Africans to work in its American colonies

  • Ferdinand de Lesseps - concession

    create the suez canal

  • Livingstone went to Africa

    • make a path for commerce and Christianity
    • missionary explorer

  • Suez canal company set up

  • Period: to

    American Civil War

    British mills starved of raw cotton
    Egypt = good cotton
    British companies invest in modernising programme of Khedive Isma'il Pasha

  • Congo River chartered by Europeans

  • Basutoland = protectorate

  • Suez Canal opened

  • 40% of Egyptian imports were to Britain

  • Griqualand West = settlement

  • Period: to

    economic slump - Europe

  • Isma'il Pasha sold suez shares

    • faced increasing debts
    • Disraeli brought £4million worth of shares -83% of boats along canal = British

  • Transvaal occupied

  • Griqualand West absorbed into cape colony

  • Egypt and Sudan - client state

  • British Somaliland - protectorate

  • Southern Nigeria - chartered by company rule

  • Northern Nigeria - chartered company rule

  • Bechuanaland - protectorate

  • Gambia - settlement

  • Uganda - chartered company rule

  • British east Africa - chartered company rule