1. The 1906 election p(1-5)

Question 1

How many seats in the House of commons did the Liberals, tories and labour win in the 1906 election?

Answer 1

Tories = 157
Liberals = 401
Labour = 29

Question 2

Who was the tory leader during the 1906 election and what happened to him as a result of the election?

Answer 2

A.J Balfour and he lost his seat in Commons

Question 3

what year would the conservatives win their next election?

Answer 3

1922

Question 4

How many seats did liberals, tories and labour win in the 1900 election?

Answer 4

Conservatives = 402
Liberal = 184
Labour = 2

Question 5

Name the 8 key reasons the Liberals won the 1906 election

Answer 5

1. The Boer war
2. The 1902 Education Act
3. The 1904 Licensing Act
4. The Chinese labour issue (Chinese slavery)
5. The Taff Vale case
6. Neglect of social reform
7. The Conservative leadership
8. The Lib-Lab Pact 1903

Question 6

In what years did the Boer War occur?

Answer 6

1899-1902

Question 7

The Boer War took place in ________ _____. The Boers were farmers of ____ descent. The discovery of ____ and _______ in Transvaal led to an influx in british miners and tensions between them led to ___.

Answer 7

1. South Africa
2. Dutch
3. Gold
4. Diamonds
5. War

Question 8

Why had the Boer war helped the tories to win the 1900 election?

Answer 8

• patriotic support
• Boer War had split the liberal gov

Question 9

Why did the Boer War sow the seeds for the conservative loss? ( 4 points)

Answer 9

• the war lasted longer and was more costly than expected
• more people died than expected
• methods used (concentration camps, ‘scorched earth’ policy) caused outrage in Britain
• malnutrition

Question 10

The Boer War exposed the amount of ______ present especially in the _____ and led to concerns about the ______ ______ of the british race. The Liberals gained support by claiming the ______ had neglected _____ in the cities.

Answer 10

1. malnutrition
2. cities
3. physical decline
4. tories
5. poverty

Question 11

What group was angered by the 1902 Education Act

Answer 11

non-conformists

Question 12

Before 1902, Anglican and ____ had been funded been funded by their _____, the 1902 act provided for all schools to be funded from ____ _____.

Answer 12

1. Catholic
2. Churches
3. local rates

Question 13

Nonconformists were outraged that their _____ might be spent on ____ to which they strongly _____. To the nonconformists this seems to be one more _____ for the _____ ___ _____ who they already regarded as having unfair advantages.

Answer 13

1. taxes
2. school
3. objected
4. privilege
5. Church of England

Question 14

What did the 1904 Licensing Act aim to do?

Answer 14

aimed to reduce the number of public houses, but it infuriated the nonconformists by proposing to compensate brewers and publicans for the cancellation of licenses

Question 15

What did the nonconformists denounce the licensing act as

Answer 15

a brewers bill

Question 16

Why had many nonconformists moved away from voting liberal and why did they return

Answer 16

stopped voting over home rule for ireland, returned to voting liberal over the Licensing Act

Question 17

When was the chinese labour issue and what was its other name

Answer 17

1902-1904
The chinese slavery issue

Question 18

What groups did the chinese labour issue anger

Answer 18

Non conformists
Trade unions

Question 19

What was the chinese labour issue?

Answer 19

Chinese labourers, who would work for very low wages, were being imported into south africa and kept in overcrowded camps.

Question 20

Not only did this raise a moral outcry from the ________ about the ______ of the chinese but the british _____ _____ feared that employers might bring them into britian, so ______ down _____ at home

Answer 20

1. nonconformists
2. treatment
3. trade unions
4. pushing
5. wages

Question 21

When was the Taff Vale case

Answer 21

1901

Question 22

What was the Taff Vale case: In 1901, a ____ had broken out in _____ between the Taff Vale Railway company and the ______ ______ trade union, which led to _____ action. The company took the trade union to ____ demanding compensation for ____ __ _____ during the strike.

Answer 22

dispute
wales
railway workers
strike
court
loss of profit

Question 23

What did the HoL decide about the taff vale case in 1902

Answer 23

a company was within its rights to sue a trade union

Question 24

What did Balfour do about the taff vale case?

Answer 24

Refused to overrule the decision with an Act of Parliament as Balfour believed it was a matter for the courts

Question 25

The Taff Vale case ________ conviction amongst workers that the tories were ______ _____ to their interests; it _______ trade union support for the idea of a ____ group in Parliament and for _________ against the tories in the ______.

Answer 25

reinforced
fundamentally opposed
encouraged
labour
campaigning
election