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JAMB and WAEC History questions: Southern Nigeria in the nineteenth century

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All topicsBritish conquest of Nigeria · 38Colonial administration in Nigeria · 36Decolonisation and African unity · 40Early centres of civilisation · 37Eastern and southern Africa · 35External influences: trade, Islam and Europeans · 38Kanem-Borno and the Hausa states · 41Nationalism and independence · 40Nigeria since independence · 44Oyo, Benin and the southern states · 44Partition, colonial rule and resistance in Africa · 34Southern Nigeria in the nineteenth century · 36The colonial economy · 37The Nigeria area: land and early peoples · 36The Sokoto Jihad and caliphate · 38West Africa in the nineteenth century · 36

  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· WAEC

    Jaja of Opobo became famous as a

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

    Abeokuta was founded in about 1830 by

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

    The Yoruba wars of the 19th century followed the

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

    Bonny's ruler William Dappa Pepple was

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

    Lagos was annexed as a British colony in

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

    In the 19th century, Ibadan rose as

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

    King Kosoko of Lagos was deposed by the British in

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

    The house system was a form of organisation in the

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

    New Oyo was founded by Alaafin

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  11. Question 11· 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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  12. Question 12· 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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  13. Question 13· Southern Nigeria in the nineteenth century· WAEC

    The British peace treaty of 1886 ending the Yoruba wars was largely arranged through

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

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

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

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

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

    Dahomey attacked Abeokuta in the nineteenth century but was

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

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

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

    The Egba founded the town of Abeokuta in about

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  19. Question 19· Southern Nigeria in the nineteenth century· WAEC

    The Yoruba civil wars of the nineteenth century followed the collapse of

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  20. Question 20· Southern Nigeria in the nineteenth century· JAMB

    Kosoko was

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