History Exam Past Questions and Answers | JAMB, WAEC and NECO

History involves documenting and explaining past events, particularly those related to specific places or subjects. Its aim is to enhance our understanding of the past and present social, political, religious, and economic conditions of a community.

• Question 771:

  The Igbo's active resistance to British colonial rule is particaularly because of the

  Options:
  A) maladministration of the British indirect rule policy
  B) regressive taxation of their society
  C) egalitarian nature of their society
  D) impression that British officials favoured the Northers
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 772:

  The Native Authority Ordinance of 1916 introduced direct taxation into Yorubaland and thereby

  Options:
  A) gave greater administrative and judicial responsibilities to the Oba
  B) made Yorubaland a beneficiary of British aid
  C) encouraged the appointment of more British officials
  D) involved the educated elite in colonial administration.
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 773:

  The failure of the Ogiso dynasty in Benin was attributed to

  Options:
  A) weakness and dependence of the rulers
  B) peoples’ resentment against the system
  C) the declining economy of the state
  D) inadequate supply of arms and ammunition.
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 774:

  All the following except one were the motivating reasons behind the Great Trek

  Options:
  A) the fear that the emigration might lead to a decline of civilisation
  B) insecurity about the conflict on the Eastern frontier of South Africa
  C) restoration of economic, cultural and political unity independent of the British power
  D) threat of liberalism by the new colonial regime
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 775:

  Nationalist activities developed earlier in British West Africa than in French West Africa because

  Options:
  A) British colonies were accorded equal status with Britain
  B) Britain had more colonies than France
  C) African chiefs in French colonies were highly respected
  D) of the systems of administration adopted by the colonial powers.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 776:

  The French policy of assimilation failed primarily because

  Options:
  A) Africans lacked the required level of education
  B) It was expensive to implement
  C) it required total rejection of African culture
  D) no African sought to be assimilated.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 777:

  In colonial Nigeria, export crop production was dominated by

  Options:
  A) peasant farmers
  B) indigenous middlemen
  C) the Labanese
  D) the Europeans
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 778:

  Th leader of the South African's black consciousness movement (Steve Biko) died in _________

  Options:
  A) 1914
  B) 1946
  C) 1977
  D) 1960
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 779:

  Politics in Nigeria’s First republic was characterized by

  Options:
  A) religion and ethnicity
  B) religion and regionalism
  C) ethnicity and regionalism
  D) regionalism and despotism.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 780:

  Which of the following pionnered Christian missionary activities in Calabar?

  Options:
  A) Thomas Freeman
  B) William Baike
  C) Hope Waddell.
  D) Mary Slessor
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  The correct answer is C .