UGANDA MARTYRS HIGH SCHOOL- LUBAGA

A-LEVEL REVISION HISTORY PAPER 6 QUESTIONS.

1. Describe/ examine the social, political and economic organization of any pre-colonial
African state.
Examples of centralized states; Zulu, Ndebele, Buganda, Bunyoro, Asante, Benin,
Dahomey etc.
Examples of de-centralized States; Iteso, Kikuyu, Nyamwezi, Ibo, Chagga, Yoruba etc
2. How was law and order maintained in pre-colonial African societies/ states in the
second half of the 19th century?
3. “Lack of a centralized political system among the segimentary societies did not mean
absence of law and order”. Discuss with reference to any pre-colonial decentralize
society.
4. How was law and order maintained in pre-colonial African states/societies in the second
half of the 19th century?
5. Discuss the role of the army in the formation and maintenance of pre-colonial societies
in Africa.
6. “The organization of pre-colonial states solemnly depended on the army”. Discuss.
7. Examine the role/ contribution of the Creoles in the history of West Africa.
8. How did the Creoles of Sierra-Leone contribute to the development of West Africa
during the 19th century?
9. How did the Creoles in Sierra-Leon lose their monopoly over West Africa by the end of
the 19th century?
10. Assess the impact of long distance trade on the people of East and Central Africa during
the 19th century.
11. Examine the features/ organization and impact of long distance trade on the peoples of
East and Central Africa during the 19th century.
12. Examine the reasons why various people in East Africa were involved in long distance
trade.
13. Discuss the role of the Africans in the pre-colonial long distance trade. What were the
effects of this trade?
14. Account for the success of the Fulani Jihads in Northern Nigeria during the 19 th century.
15. Examine the factors that led to the 19th century Jihads in West Africa.
16. Examine the consequences of the 19th century Jihads in West Africa.
17. Discuss the view that the causes of the 19th century Jihads in West Africa were largely
nationalistic.
18. Examine the impact of the Mfecane/Difecane on the peoples of Southern Africa.
19. Assess the impact/ significance of the Ngoni invasion on the peoples of Central Africa in
the mid 19th century.
20. How far were political factors responsible for the colonization of Africa?
21. “The scramble and partition of Africa was due to humanitarian reasons”. Discuss.
22. Assess the significance of the 1884/85 Berlin conference in the scramble and partition of
Africa.
23. How far did social factors contribute to the scramble and partition of Africa?
24. “The causes of the scramble and partition of Africa were purely economic”. Discuss.
25. “The scramble and partition of Africa was inevitable”. Discuss.
26. Examine the role Chartered companies in the European colonization of Africa.
27. To what extent did the Imperial British East African company (IBEAC) achieve its
objectives between 1888 and 1893?
28. Assess the role of the Imperial British East African Company in the colonization of East
Africa.
29. How did European colonialists acquire territories in either West or East Africa?
30. Discuss the role of traders in the colonization of any one region in Africa.
31. “The Nama and the Herero rebellion was a reaction against foreign intrusion”. Discuss.
32. Discuss the causes and effects of the Bambatha rebellion of 1906.
33. Discuss the causes and effects of the Chimurenga (Shona-Ndebele) rebellion of 1896-97.
34. What were the causes and effects of Maji-Maji rebellion of 1906-07 in Tanganyika?
35. Discuss the causes and consequences of the Hut tax war (Temne and Mende) of 1896 in
Sierra-Leone.
36. To what extent was the Mahdist rebellion in the Sudan a nationalistic movement?
37. Examine the significance of the Mahdist revolt 1881-85 in Sudan.
38. To what extent was the Urabist revolt 1881-82 a nationalistic revolt?
39. To what extent was religion responsible for the outbreak of the 1896-97 Chimurenga
revolt?
40. To what extent was religion responsible for the outbreak of the 1906-97 Mji-Maji
rebellion?
41. Account for the failure of African resistance towards the imposition of European
colonialism in Africa.
42. To what extent would you subscribe to the view that resistors to colonial rule were
heroes and collaborators as traitors?
43. “The downfall of Theodore II led to a more and strong Ethiopia”. Discuss.
44. Assess the contribution of Emperor Theodore II in the history of Ethiopia up to 1868.
45. Assess the achievements of Theodore II of Ethiopia.
46. Assess the causes and effects of the Napier expedition of 1867.
47. Discuss the problems inherited by John IV of Ethiopia and how he solved them between
1872-1889.
48. Assess the reign of John IV of Ethiopia 1872-889.
49. Assess the achievements and failures of Menelik II of Ethiopia between 1889 and 1914.
50. How did Menelik II transform Ethiopia between 1889-1914?
51. Why did Ethiopia initially fail to contain European aggression but later was able to
preserve her independence.
52. Account for the defeat of the Italians in Ethiopia in 1896.
53. Assess the contribution of Menelik II in protecting the independence of Ethiopia during
the period of European colonization?
54. Examine the factors that undermined Italian occupation of Ethiopian the second half of
the 19th century.
55. Examine the challenges to the survival of the Ethiopian Empire during the second half of
the 19th century.
56. Discuss the major threats to the security and independence of Ethiopia in the second
half of the 19th century
57. Assess the achievements of Lord Cromer in Egypt in the second half the 19 th century.
58. Assess the impact of Lord Cromer of Egypt 1882-1914.
59. Assess the contribution of Khedive Pasha in the history of Egypt.
60. Examine the contribution of Khedive Ismail Pasha in the Egyptian loss of independence.
61. To what extent were the policies of Khedive Ismail Pasha responsible for the loss of the
Egyptian independence 1883?
62. Examine the factors that undermined the independence of Egypt in the second half of
the 19th century.
63. Examine the causes and consequences of the Egyptian loss of independence.
64. Account for the Egyptian loss of independence by 1882.
65. Examine the factors that led to the disintegration of the Mahdist state by 1898
66. Discuss the characteristics of the Turko-Egyptian administration in the Sudan.
67. “The Turko-Egyptian administration in Sudan was exploitative, oppressive and full of
resistance”. Discuss.
68. Account for the rise and fall of the Mahdist state.
69. Account for the British re-conquest of the Sudan.
70. Examine the factors that led to the Fashoda crisis of 1896.
71. Assess the achievements of Khalifa Abdullah of the Mahdist state between 1885 and
1898.
72. Assess the performance of the Anglo-Egyptian condominium government in Sudan by
1914.
73. “The violation of the 1881 Pretoria convention led to the outbreak of the 1899-1902
Anglo-Boer war”. Discuss.
74. How did the mineral revolution affect Anglo-Boer relations during the second half of the
19th century?
75. To what extent did the discovery and exploitation of minerals constitute to a revolution
in South Africa?
76. Assess the impact of the mineral revolution on the peoples of South Africa.
77. How significant was the discovery of minerals in 1867 and 1886 in the history of South
Africa?
78. How revolutionary was the discovery of minerals in South Africa?
79. Examine the causes and consequences of the 1880-81 war between the British and the
Boers in South Africa.
80. Account for the causes and effects of the 1880-81 first Anglo-Boer war between the
British and the Boer.
81. To what extent were the terms of the Vereeniging peace treaty of 1902 solve the Anglo-
Boer conflict?
82. Assess the impact of the Vereeniging treaty of 1902 on the peoples of South Africa
83. Assess the impact of the 1899-1902 Anglo-Boer war on the relationship between the
British and the Boers in South Africa.
84. How far was the second Anglo-Boer war in South Africa a result of the Pretoria
convention?
85. “The seeds of the outbreak of the second Anglo-Boer war were sown in the Pretoria
convention of 1881”. Discuss.
86. Discuss the causes and effects of the Anglo-Boer war of 1899-1902.
87. Examine the significance of the 1910 Act of Union in the history of South Africa.
88. Analyze the importance of the 1910 Act of Union in the history of South Africa.
89. Explain the causes and consequences of the establishment of the Act of Union of 1910
in South Africa.
90. Account for the South African federation of 1910.
91. “The flag followed the cross”. Examine the validity of this statement with reference to
West Africa.
92. Examine the factors that facilitated missionary activities in Africa.
93. Account for the factors that favored missionary activities in Africa.
94. What impact did Christian Missionary activities have on the social, economic, and
political developments of Malawi or Uganda?
95. Explain the problems faced by Bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowther during his missionary
career in West Africa.
96. Describe the activities of Christian missionaries in Uganda during the second half of the
19th century.
97. Discuss the problems faced by Christian missionaries in Central Africa during the second
half of the 19th century.
98. Account for missionary triumph in East Africa in East Africa by 1914.
99. Describe the activities of the Livingstonia mission in Nyasaland (Malawi) during the
second half of the 19th century.
100. How did Christian missionary activities affect Buganda by 1914?
101. How did Christian missionary activities affect East Africa by 1914?
102. Examine the obstacles to Europe Christian missionary activities in East Africa
during the 19th century.
103. Examine the challenge to Europe Christian missionary activities in East Africa
during the 19th century.
104. Assess the impact of Christian missionary activities in West Africa up to 1914.
105. How did European missionary enterprise impact on the people of Malawi or
Uganda?
106. To what extent were the European Christian missionaries responsible for the
colonization of Africa?
107. Explain the causes and consequences of the religious wars in Uganda between
1888 and 1894.
108. Why were the Christian missionary activities successful in East Africa?
109. Discuss the contribution of Christian missionaries in the development of East or
West Africa.
110. Account for the rise of independent church movements in Africa up to 1914.
111. Account for the emergency of independent church movement in Africa up to
1914.
112. What factors were behind the rise of independent church movement in Central
Africa by 1914?
113. Why did independent churches emerge in Africa?
114. Account for the emergence of independent churches in Malawi between 1898
and 1914.
115. What were the obstacles of Moroccan independence between 1870 and 1914?
116. Examine the obstacles to the attainment of independence in Morocco between
1870 and 1914?
117. Examine the factors that undermined the independence of Morocco between
1870 and 1914.
118. Account for the loss of Moroccan independence in 1912.
119. To what extent did social-political unrest in Morocco lead to the loss of her
independence in 1912?
120. How did the French consolidate their rule in Morocco by 1914?
121. Assess the contribution of Moulay Hassan to Morocco between 1873 and 1894.
122. How successful was Moulay Hassan in tackling the internal and external
problems of Morocco?
123. To what extent did the internal factors undermine Moroccan independence
between 1870 – 1914?
124. Account for the Italian occupation of Libya by 1911.
125. Examine the factors which led to the establishment of Italian rule in Libya in
1911.
126. Examine the factors that facilitated the establishment of Italian rule in Libya in
1911.
127. Discuss the events that led to the Italian occupation of Libya in 1911.
128. Examine the factors that led to the establishment of colonial rule over Tunisia in
1881.
129. Account for Tunisian’s loss of autonomy in 1881.
130. “The weaknesses of the Ottoman rule were responsible for the loss of Tunisian
independence in 1882” Discuss.
131. Account for the loss of Tunisian independence by the French between 1881-
1890.
132. Account for the occupation of Tunisian independence by the French in 1881.
133. Examine the impact of the French rule on the Algerian people.
134. How did the French consolidate their position/ rule in Algeria?
135. Assess the impact of French rule on the people of Algeria between 1870-1914.
136. Explain the methods used by the French to consolidate their rule in Algeria up to
1914.
137. What were the main features of the French rule in Algeria between 1870-1914?
138. Describe the French policy of administration in Algeria.
139. How did the French occupation of Algeria lead to subsequent colonization of the
rest of the Maghreb states?
140. Examine the contributions of Samoure Toure in the history of the Mandika.
141. Examine the significance of Samoure Toure in the history of the Mandika.
142. Account for the collapse of the Mandika Empire by 1900.
143. How was Samoure Toure able to establish and maintain the Mandika Empire?
144. Assess the contribution of Samoure Toure towards the preservation of Mandika
Empire by 1898.
145. “The existence of the Mandika state very much depended on Samoure Toure”
Discuss.
146. Account for Samoure Toure’s prolonged resistance against the French.
147. Examine the role played by Samoure Toure in the formation of the Mandika
Empire between 1855 and 1882.
148. Assess the impact of the Buganda agreement of 1900 on the people of Uganda
up to 1914.
149. To what extent was the Buganda beneficial to the Baganda?
150. Assess the impact of 1900 Buganda agreement on the people of Uganda.
151. Examine the significance of the Anglo-Buganda settlement of 1900 in the history
of Uganda by 1914.
152. Assess the contribution of Omukama Kabalega to the history of Uganda.
153. Account for the outbreak of Kabalega’s resistance against the British between
1894 and 1899.
154. Assess the contribution of Semei Kakungulu in the establishment of British
colonial rule in Uganda.
155. To what extent did Semei Kakungulu contribute to the establishment of colonial
rule in Uganda?
156. Examine the contribution of Lobengula to the history of Matabeleland.
157. Explain the contribution of Lobengula to the history of Matabeleland.
158. Assess the role played by Cecil Rhodes in the colonization of South Africa.
159. Assess the contribution of Cetewayo (Cetshwayo) to the Zulu kingdom.
160. Discuss the causes and consequences of the 1875 Jameson raid.
161. How did King Lewanika of the Lozi kingdom manage to save his kingdom from
colonial destruction?
162. Assess the impact of King Leopold II’s economic policies on the Congo between
1878 and 1908.
163. How did the activities of Leopold II of Belgium and de Brazza contribute to the
partition of Africa?
164. How did Leopold II acquire and maintain the Congo between 1876 and 1908?
165. How was King Leopold II able to acquire and consolidate his rule in the Congo
during the 19th century?
166. Assess the significance of Leopold’s administration in the Congo Free State by
1914.
167. Why did Leopold II surrender the Congo Free State to the Belgian Parliament in
1908?
168. Describe the characteristics of the Belgian administration in Congo 1908 and
1917.
169. Examine the contribution of the Creoles to the history of West Africa.
170. To what extent was the Creole administration responsible for the outbreak of
the hut tax war in Sierra Leone?
171. How did the Creoles of Sierra Leone contribute to the development of West
Africa during the 19th century?
172. Account for the failure of European powers to colonize Liberia during the second
half of the 19th century.
173. Examine the achievements of the independent Republic of Liberia between 1850
and 1914.
174. “The Fante-Asante and British conflicts were inevitable” Discuss.
175. What methods did the Fante adopt to preserve their independence?
176. Examine the factors for the formation of the Fante Confederation up to 1871.
177. Examine the causes and consequences of the British-Asante wars in the second
half of the 19th century.
178. Examine the challenges faced by the French in implementing the policy of
Assimilation in West Africa up to 1914.
179. Account for the failure of the French Assimilation policy in West Africa.
180. To what extent was the French policy of Assimilation successful in West Africa?
181. To what extent was the French policy of Assimilation successful in Senegal?
182. “The French Assimilation policy in West Africa was not only unrealistic but self
defeating “. Discuss.
183. To what extent were the French and British colonial administration policies
different?
184. Compare the British and French systems of colonial administration up to 1914.
185. Why and with what success did the British adopt indirect policy system in
Northern Nigeria?
186. Why and with what success did the British employ indirect policy system in
Nigeria?
187. How successful was the policy of indirect rule in Nigeria?
188. Assess the impacts of the German rule in Tanganyika in the second half of the
th
19 century.
189. Examine the impacts of the German rule in Togo in the second half of the 19th
century.
190. “Portuguese rule in Angola can be summed up into three words; oppressive,
exploitation and resistance”. Discuss.
191. How did the Portuguese exploit African land and labor in Angola/ Mozambique?
192. Discuss the methods used by the Portuguese in exploiting Africans in
Angola/Mozambique.
193. Examine the main features of Portuguese rule in Central Africa up to 1914.
194. Assess the impact of Portuguese rule on the Africans in Mozambique up to 1914.
195. Explain the methods used by the Portuguese to exploit Angola/ Mozambique.
196. How did the Portuguese rule in Mozambique affect the Africans between 1870
and 1914?
197. Discuss the main features of the British colonial economy in Kenya from 1895-
1914.
198. Discuss the effects of the colonial economic policies in Kenya between 1895 and
1914.
199. Examine the impact of plantation agriculture on the people of Kenya by 1914.
200. Assess the effects of plantation agriculture on the people of Kenya by 1914.
201. Discuss the role of the Africans in the colonial economic development of Africa
by 1914.
202. Discuss the role played by the Africans in the colonial economy by 1914.
203. What were the results of the colonial economic policies on the people of East
Africa up to 1914?
204. Assess the impact of the introduction of cash crops on the peoples of East Africa
by 1914.
205. Discuss the impact of colonial economic policies on the African people up to
1914.
206. Examine the role of Africans in the colonial economy by 1914.
207. Examine the economic developments in Uganda between 1900 and 1914.
208. Discuss the colonial economic policies that were established in Uganda and
Tanganyika between 1895 and 1914.
209. What measures were employed by colonial governments in East Africa to ensure
effective exploitation of land and labor?
210. Examine the colonial economic policies in the development of West Africa up to
1914.
211. How was African land and labor exploited in Congo Free State?
212. Discuss the methods used by Leopold II to exploit the Congo.
213. Describe the characteristics of the Belgian administration in the Congo by 1878
and 1914.
214. Why did the Belgian government force Leopold II to withdraw from the Congo?
215. Examine the factors which influenced the development of the transport system
in either Ghana or Nigeria by 1914.
216. Account for the development of modern transport systems in East Africa
between 1895 to 1914.
217. Assess the impact of the construction of the Uganda railway on the development
of East Africa by 1914.
218. Examine the causes and effects of the construction of the Uganda railway.
219. Examine the impact of the Uganda railway on East Africa by 1914.
220. How did the construction of the Uganda railway affect the peoples of East Africa
up to 1914?
221. Assess the impact of the Uganda railway on the development of East Africa up to
1914.
222. Examine the challenges which were encountered during the construction of the
Uganda railway.