British Colonial Rule
What was the main ideology of Sir Horace Byatt?
Building up a local government on the basis of traditional authorities
Name 5 crops cultivated in German East Africa
Sisal
Cotton
Rubber
Peanuts
Sesame
Coffee
When the first world war broke out who did it lead to the invasion of?
German East Africa by British, Belgian and South African troops.
Who was the first British governor and what was his role in Tanganyika?
Sir Horace Byatt, administrator of the captured territory and, from 1920 to 1924, first British governor and commander in chief of Tanganyika Territory
Name 2 political parties (and what their abbreviations stand for)
TANU, TAA, UTP
(Tanganyika African National Union, Tanganyika Africa Association, United Tanganyika Party)
When and where was the Legislative Council founded and who were its members?
1926 in Dar Es-Salaam (former capital)
Asian and white members, Africans excluded
What organisation was founded to advance German interests in East Africa and by who?
Society for German Colonisation by Carl Peters
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who was nyerere?????
leader
What political group and its two compatriots won the election during 1959 and how many seats did they win?
In the first Legislative Council elections in 1959 TANU and its Asian and European compatriots won all the elective seats.
What plans did the British put in place to develop the economy after WWII?
Development program aimed to devote three million acres of land to the production of peanuts. It failed because of the lack of adequate preliminary investigations and was subsequently carried out on a greatly reduced scale
What was the Abushiri rebellion and when did it occur?
1888-1889
Organised by a coalition of Arabs and Swahilis to protest German colonisation
What was the role of the League of Nations in the end of German rule?
Article 22 of the League's Covenant gave it the power to distribute former German and Turkish colonies to member nations to administer.
What were the main objectives for governor Sir Donald Cameron?
Sir Donald Cameron, governor from 1925 to 1931, infused a new vigour into the country. He reorganized the system of native administration by the Native Authority Ordinance (1926) and the Native Courts Ordinance (1929). His object was to build up local government on the basis of traditional authorities, an aim that he pursued with doctrinaire enthusiasm and success.
What were the main goals for TANU under Nyerere?
TANU under Nyerere sought to connect the struggle for economic and social improvement of individuals and groups with the need for self government and independence as a means to social and political transformation.
What economic change did the British implement in Tanganyika with regards to agriculture?
Expand commercial export commodity agriculture and stop food producing subsistence farming
What system of rule did the Germans use and what were the impacts of this?
Indirect rule
Sent Muslims and Arabs inland to act as chiefs - facilitated the spread of Islam
What were the economic consequences of World War 2 and the Great Depression on Tanganyika?
The economic depression after 1929 resulted in the curtailment of many of Cameron’s development proposals. Immediately Tanganyika had to become as independent as possible of imported goods. The rise in commodity prices that wartime demand stimulated was off-set by the massive inflation that the general shortage of goods provoked
what was nyereres ideology
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What were the consequences that the colonial government faced with TANU?
The consequence was that the colonial government found it increasingly difficult to deal with social upheavals such as protests and riots without the intermediation of TANU. Nor were there any alternative political organisations that the colonial government could develop as a more docile alternative to TANU.
What were the main impacts of British rule in Tanganyika?
Economic - agricultural systems
Political - establishment of native councils
Social - development of infrastructure
What were the reasons for the failure of German colonial rule in Tanganyika with regards to WWII?
German East Africa blockaded by British Navy
Administrative and economic system disrupted
1919 Treaty of Versailles - Britain took over the territory
What were the consequences of Britain’s decision to place Tanganyika under UN trusteeship in 1947?
The trusteeship later led to the creation of further political organisations, with Julius Nyerere being elected president of the Tanganyika Africa Association (TAA) in 1953
To what extent was the leadership of Julius Nyerere a main factor in the achievement of independence for Tanganyika?
great extent everyone loved him even the non-african minority (asians and whites)
they called him mwalimu (teacher)
so basically he was gandhi but tanganyika edition
What were the motivations for political groups achieving independence and what impact did it have?