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JAMB History questions: The colonial economy

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All topicsBritish conquest of Nigeria · 20Colonial administration in Nigeria · 18Decolonisation and African unity · 21Early centres of civilisation · 19Eastern and southern Africa · 18External influences: trade, Islam and Europeans · 20Kanem-Borno and the Hausa states · 21Nationalism and independence · 20Nigeria since independence · 26Oyo, Benin and the southern states · 23Partition, colonial rule and resistance in Africa · 17Southern Nigeria in the nineteenth century · 18The colonial economy · 19The Nigeria area: land and early peoples · 19The Sokoto Jihad and caliphate · 20West Africa in the nineteenth century · 19

  1. Question 1· The colonial economy· JAMB

    A negative effect of colonial economic policy was

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  2. Question 2· The colonial economy· JAMB

    Tin mining on the Jos Plateau began in the

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  3. Question 3· The colonial economy· JAMB

    A major aim of the colonial economy in Nigeria was to

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  5. Question 5· The colonial economy· JAMB

    The Colonial Development and Welfare Acts of the 1940s provided

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  6. Question 6· The colonial economy· JAMB

    The railway from Port Harcourt to Enugu was built mainly to carry

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  7. Question 7· The colonial economy· JAMB

    The cocoa hold-up of 1937–38 was a protest against

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  8. Question 8· The colonial economy· JAMB

    The main export crop of colonial Northern Nigeria was

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  9. Question 9· The colonial economy· JAMB

    The colonial marketing boards in Nigeria were set up mainly to

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  10. Question 10· The colonial economy· JAMB

    Coal mining in colonial Nigeria was centred at

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  11. Question 11· The colonial economy· JAMB

    From 1912 the money issued in British West Africa by the West African Currency Board was in

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  12. Question 12· The colonial economy· JAMB

    The groundnut boom in northern Nigeria was made possible largely by

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  13. Question 13· The colonial economy· JAMB

    Nigeria changed its currency from the pound to the naira in

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  14. Question 14· The colonial economy· JAMB

    The Lagos-Ibadan railway was completed in

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  15. Question 15· The colonial economy· JAMB

    The United Africa Company was

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  16. Question 16· The colonial economy· JAMB

    The Iva Valley shooting of 1949 involved

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  17. Question 17· The colonial economy· JAMB

    The railway line from Lagos reached Kano in

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  18. Question 18· The colonial economy· JAMB

    The West African Currency Board was created in

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  19. Question 19· The colonial economy· JAMB

    Cocoa production in colonial Nigeria was concentrated in the

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