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JAMB History questions: Southern Nigeria in the nineteenth century

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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· Southern Nigeria in the nineteenth century· JAMB

    The Brass raid on the Royal Niger Company at Akassa in 1895 was caused by

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  2. Question 2· Southern Nigeria in the nineteenth century· JAMB

    Abeokuta was founded in about 1830 by

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  3. Question 3· Southern Nigeria in the nineteenth century· JAMB

    Bonny's ruler William Dappa Pepple was

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  4. Question 4· Southern Nigeria in the nineteenth century· JAMB

    King Kosoko of Lagos was deposed by the British in

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  5. Question 5· Southern Nigeria in the nineteenth century· JAMB

    The trade in palm oil and other produce that replaced the slave trade in the nineteenth century was called

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  6. Question 6· Southern Nigeria in the nineteenth century· JAMB

    Nana Olomu, the powerful trader and 'Governor of the River', was a leader of the

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  7. Question 7· Southern Nigeria in the nineteenth century· JAMB

    The Kiriji (Ekitiparapo) war was fought mainly between Ibadan and

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  8. Question 8· Southern Nigeria in the nineteenth century· JAMB

    The battle of Osogbo (about 1840) is significant because Ibadan forces

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  9. Question 9· Southern Nigeria in the nineteenth century· JAMB

    Dahomey attacked Abeokuta in the nineteenth century but was

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  10. Question 10· Southern Nigeria in the nineteenth century· JAMB

    The Ijaye War of 1860–65 was fought between Ibadan and

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  11. Question 11· Southern Nigeria in the nineteenth century· JAMB

    The Egba founded the town of Abeokuta in about

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  12. Question 12· Southern Nigeria in the nineteenth century· JAMB

    Kosoko was

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  13. Question 13· Southern Nigeria in the nineteenth century· JAMB

    Samuel Ajayi Crowther is remembered as the

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  14. Question 14· Southern Nigeria in the nineteenth century· JAMB

    The trading state of Opobo was founded in 1869 by

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  15. Question 15· Southern Nigeria in the nineteenth century· JAMB

    Bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowther led mission work mainly along the

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  16. Question 16· Southern Nigeria in the nineteenth century· JAMB

    The treaty of 1886 that ended the Kiriji war was arranged by

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  17. Question 17· Southern Nigeria in the nineteenth century· JAMB

    The collapse of the Old Oyo Empire was hastened by the revolt of

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  18. Question 18· Southern Nigeria in the nineteenth century· JAMB

    The Ijaye war (1860-62) was fought between

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