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The decline of which Empire opened the door for British conquest of the subcontinent?
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Mughal Empire
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Name the 3 Presidencies of the East India Company - the three trading bases
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Bengal, Calcutta, Madras
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Where was the governor of the East India Company based?
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Fort William
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How was the governor of the East India Company selected?
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From the Board of the EITC, with crown approval
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What 2 religions dominated the subcontinent?
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Hindu and Islam
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What was the East India Company by 1786, in relation to the crown?
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Regularised subsidiary
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What date was the first Charter Act?
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1813
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What date was the second Charter Act?
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1833
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What was the main role for the East India Company 1857?
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Tax collection
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What is a Nabob?
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Muslim official of the Mughal Empire
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Who became governor of India in 1786? (Hint: Yorktown)
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Cornwallis
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Who was Governor after 1833?
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William Bentinck
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How many private armies did the East India Company have?
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3
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How large were these forces by 1820?
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232,224
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What is a Sepoy?
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An Indian member of the Company Army
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What is meant by the term Caste?
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A religious and social hierarchy
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How many European Soldiers were there in India in 1857?
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45,522
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What was the role of the East India Company’s Private Army? (1)
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Protect the company
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What was the role of the East India Company’s Private Army? (2)
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Force rulers to sign treaties
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What was the role of the East India Company’s Private Army? (3)
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Annex territory
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Which 3 regions were annexed into Company rule between 1823 and 1826?
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Sind, Punjab, Bengal
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When was Sind brought under Company rule?
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1843
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When was Punjab brought under Company rule?
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1849
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When was Bengal brought under Company rule? (Battle of Plassey)
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1857
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What two senses of superiority came about between the British and Indians?
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Cultural and religious
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What kind of Christians thought it was their job to convert the Indians?
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Missionaries
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How did the arrival of British women in India constitute a culture clash?
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Brought all the cultural taboos of Victorian England
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What became taboo after the arrival of British women in India?
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Mixed race children
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What two religious/cultural practices were wiped out by the British?
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Sati and Thuggee
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How many recorded occurrences of widow burning were there in a 30 mile radius of Calcutta, 1803?
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438
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William Sleeman sought to wipe out the practice of ritualistic murder in the name of which warrior goddess?
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Kali Ma, the Black Mother
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How did Sleeman investigate Thuggee?
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Captured and interrogated suspected Thugs
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Name an evangelical Christian against the burning of widows on their husband’s funeral pyres? (He also had a role in abolition of the Slave Trade in 1807)
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William Wilberforce
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Why was the practice of female infanticide common in Rajputana, Maharashtra and some other parts of Northern India? (1)
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Parents could not afford dowries paid to grooms
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Why was the practice of female infanticide common in Rajputana, Maharashtra and some other parts of Northern India? (2)
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Shame of having an unmarried daughter
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When and with what act did the blanket ban on missionaries entering India end?
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1813 Charter Act
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Name a religious group who sent missionaries to India. (1)
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Baptists
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Name a religious group who sent missionaries to India. (2)
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Anglicans
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Name a religious group who sent missionaries to India. (3)
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Evangelicals
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Name a religious group who sent missionaries to India. (4)
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Quakers
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From what year did missionaries start arriving in India in high numbers?
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1813
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What was the main aim of most missionary societies?
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Translate the Bible into the vernacular language
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What skills did they possess which helped with this?
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Often skilled linguists
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Name one of the first missionaries in India. (1)
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Joshua Marshall
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Name one of the first missionaries in India. (2)
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William Carey
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Name one of the first missionaries in India. (3)
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Charles Grant
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Why did the missionaries focus on education and educational reform?
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Create a new educated Christian caste
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Which dominant Caste did they seek to undermine by doing this?
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Brahmins
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What did Bentinck do in 1835?
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Education Acts
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What did Ram Mohan Roy attempt to do as part of the Bengal Renaissance?
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Fuse the cultures of the West with Indian culture
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Between what years was Dalhousie governor of India?
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1848-1856
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Under what circumstances did the Doctrines of Lapse and Paramountcy allow the British to seize native land? (1)
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If a ruler lapsed in administration
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Under what circumstances did the Doctrines of Lapse and Paramountcy allow the British to seize native land? (2)
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If they died without a blood line heir
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Under what circumstances did the Doctrines of Lapse and Paramountcy allow the British to seize native land? (3)
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Where ownership could not be proven
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Give one example of something introduced by Dalhousie as an attempt to modernise India. (1)
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Electric telegraph
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Give one example of something introduced by Dalhousie as an attempt to modernise India. (2)
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Post office
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Give one example of something introduced by Dalhousie as an attempt to modernise India. (3)
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Railways
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Give one example of something introduced by Dalhousie as an attempt to modernise India. (4)
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Educational reform
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Name a province annexed under Dalhousie, where he accused the ruler of maladministration.
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Awadh
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What was the trigger event of the Indian Rebellion, which began in 1857?
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Gun cartridges sealed with beef and pork fat
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In which area did the Rebellion begin?
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Meerut and Deli
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How many British and Europeans were killed in the massacre at Cawnpore?
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600
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What happened when the rebel leader (Nana Sahib) offered Europeans safe passage out of Cawnpore?
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Massacred
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Who died while “trying to do his duty”?
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Henry Lawrence
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Why was Lucknow able to hold out against attack, even after the relief force arrived, thus swelling the numbers present in the fortified city?
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Lawrence’s second in command found a hidden cache of supplies
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In what year did the Indian Rebellion end?
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1858
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Give one reason why the Indian Rebellion was unsuccessful.(1)
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Divisions between the rebels
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Give one reason why the Indian Rebellion was unsuccessful.(2)
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Not coordinated
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Give one reason why the Indian Rebellion was unsuccessful.(3)
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No enthusiasm to return to Mughal rule
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Give one reason why the Indian Rebellion was unsuccessful.(4)
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Placeholder did not want to be there
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Who now controlled all of India, after the Government of India Act of 1858 removed the East India Trading Company from power?
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The Crown
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Name one of the punishments by the British of the Indian rebels. (1)
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Blown apart by cannons
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Name one of the punishments by the British of the Indian rebels. (2)
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Forced to lick blood from walls
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Name one of the punishments by the British of the Indian rebels. (3)
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Forced to eat meat to defile their religion
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Name one of the existing divisions in India, which the British exploited, in order to stay in control of the sub continent? (1)
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Religious
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Name one of the existing divisions in India, which the British exploited, in order to stay in control of the sub continent? (2)
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Cultural
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Name one of the existing divisions in India, which the British exploited, in order to stay in control of the sub continent? (3)
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Geographical
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What were Indians promised as part of the new proclamation offered to them after the East India Company was removed from power?
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Religious conversion would not be part of an official manifesto
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Who became some of the most loyal allies of the British in India, staying this way until the end of the Raj in 1947?
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The princely states
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Which groups had clearly learned nothing from their role in causing tension in the sub continent?
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Missionaries
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What did the 2000 or so white men governing India (with a population of 200 to 300 million) as part of the new Raj do? (1)
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Governed from a distance
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What did the 2000 or so white men governing India (with a population of 200 to 300 million) as part of the new Raj do? (2)
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Attitudes to Indians darkened (racist)
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What did the 2000 or so white men governing India (with a population of 200 to 300 million) as part of the new Raj do? (3)
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Constantly suspicious
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Which less controversial projects (less than attempting to change and Christianise the Indians) did the British turn to in the years after the Rebellion? (1)
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Infrastructure
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Which less controversial projects (less than attempting to change and Christianise the Indians) did the British turn to in the years after the Rebellion? (2)
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Railways
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Which less controversial projects (less than attempting to change and Christianise the Indians) did the British turn to in the years after the Rebellion? (3)
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Irrigation
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How did the British justify their continued position in the sub continent?
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"The white man's burden"
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What assured the British that they could deal with any further uprisings more swiftly, or even prevent them from happening? (1)
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Mixed the army up so Sikhs and Muslims were mixed
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What assured the British that they could deal with any further uprisings more swiftly, or even prevent them from happening? (2)
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Changed ratio of Europeans and Indians from 9 to 1, up to 3 to 1
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What assured the British that they could deal with any further uprisings more swiftly, or even prevent them from happening? (3)
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Built better road networks between the presidencies
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