History british empire

In England a group of Black Britains called the _________ started a letter writting campaign against the slave trade

Sons of Africa

England ___________ luxury goods and re-exported them at higher prices to the European countries which didn’t have a direct overseas trade.

imported

The Armada Portrait symbolized....

Queen Elizabeth's international power

With the ______________ the need for new markets and new sources of raw materials accelerated the expansion of the Empire.

Industrial Revolution

In the 18th century, it is estimated that ________ Africans were taken to the Americas as slaves, at least a third of them in British ships.

6 million

The British Empire lasted from 1497-1987

False

An Empire is....

a country or area under the full or partial political control of another country, typically a distant one, and occupied by settlers from that country.

The rise, and successive growth, of the British Empire was mainly due to.....

economic reasons

What is the Commonwealth of Nations?

is a voluntary association of 53 independent and equal countries.

Following the Second World War, Britain was no longer able to financially support or afford an Empire.

True

What is the Armada Portrait?Explain.

El armada portraits es el painting that portrays the defeat of the spanish armada and aldo represented the power of the british empire

The British Empire has its origins in the 18th century, during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I

False

British sailors became involved in the trade in the 16th century, and the Treaty of _______ gave them the right to sell slaves in the Spanish Empire.

Utrecht

The British Empire was the greatest empire the world has ever seen, and for more than a century Britain was the foremost global power, ruling over a quarter of the world’s area and population.

True

Uganda and Mozambique are part of the Commonwealth countries?

False

What does this phrase means?

“The sun never sets on the British Empire.”

It means that ot is always daytime sumewhere in the empire

In ______, the Committee for the Abolition of the Slave Trade was formed. William Wilberforce represented them in Parliament.

1787

The years __________ are referred to as Britain's imperial century

1814 to 1915

During the first half of the 20th century almost all the colonies turned into dominions.

True

In 1807, after a huge campaign – the first mass public protest campaign in history – The British Parliament _________the slave trade.

abolished