1. The Liberal Governments

Question 1

How many Irish nationalist MP’s was there in the commons after the December 1910 elections?

Answer 1

84

Question 2

Who led the IN MP’s in the commons after 1910?

Answer 2

John Redmond

Question 3

When was the Parliament act?

Answer 3

1911

Question 4

When the third home rule Bill pass through Parliament?

Answer 4

1912

Question 5

The third ______ ______ _____ was a moderate measure that would give ____ it’s own ______ with power to make ____ on purely _______ matters.

Answer 5

1) home rule bill
2) Ireland
3) Parliament
4) law
5) Irish

Question 6

What would the British Parliament keep control over under the third home rule bill

Answer 6

Foreign policy, defence, trade, pensions and national insurance

Question 7

Under the terms of the bill what would Ireland continue to do?

Answer 7

Send MP’s to Westminster

Question 8

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

Answer 8

Tories = 157
Liberals = 401
Labour = 29

Question 9

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

Answer 9

A.J Balfour and he lost his seat in Commons

Question 10

what year would the conservatives win their next election?

Answer 10

1922

Question 11

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

Answer 11

Conservatives = 402
Liberal = 184
Labour = 2

Question 12

Name the 8 key reasons the Liberals won the 1906 election

Answer 12

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 13

In what years did the Boer War occur?

Answer 13

1899-1902

Question 14

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 14

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

Question 15

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

Answer 15

• patriotic support
• Boer War had split the liberal gov

Question 16

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 16

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

Question 17

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

Answer 17

• 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 18

What group was angered by the 1902 Education Act

Answer 18

Non conformists

Question 19

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

Answer 19

1. Catholic
2. Churches
3. local rates

Question 20

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 20

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

Question 21

What did the 1904 Licensing Act aim to do?

Answer 21

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 22

What did the nonconformists denounce the licensing act as

Answer 22

A brewers bill

Question 23

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

Answer 23

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

Question 24

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

Answer 24

1902-1904
The chinese slavery issue

Question 25

What groups did the chinese labour issue anger

Answer 25

Non conformists
Trade unions

Question 26

What was the chinese labour issue?

Answer 26

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

Question 27

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 27

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

Question 28

When did the Taff Vale case happen

Answer 28

1901

Question 29

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 29

dispute
wales
railway workers
strike
court
loss of profit

Question 30

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

Answer 30

a company was within its rights to sue a trade union

Question 31

What did Balfour do about the taff vale case?

Answer 31

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

Question 32

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 32

reinforced
fundamentally opposed
encouraged
labour
campaigning
election

Question 33

What was the conservatives biggest policy misjudgement?

Answer 33

The Tariff reform

Question 34

When was the tariff reform campaign launched and by who

Answer 34

1903, in Birmingham by Joseph Chamberlain

Question 35

What did joseph chamberlain want to do

Answer 35

reintroduce tariffs (taxes on imported goods) with a lower level of tariff for goods coming into Britain from the British empire than goods imported from non- empire countries (imperial preference)

Question 36

What did chamberlain argue that introducing tariffs would do

Answer 36

• protect British industry which would thus result in more jobs
• Provide revenue to fund social reform
• strengthen the British Empire and thus Britians position in the world

Question 37

what did working and middle class people believe about tariff reforms

Answer 37

they feared that tariffs would mean dearer food and falling living standards

Question 38

what did the proposed reform do to the conservative party

Answer 38

divided the Conservative government and party

Question 39

which leading conservative voted with the liberals on the matter of tariff reforms in 1904

Answer 39

Winston Churchill

Question 40

Free trade was literally a ‘_____ ____ ______’ issue of great concern to voters in all ______ and the ______ party was able to present itself as the party that was _______ _____ _____.

Answer 40

Bread and butter
classes
Liberal
protecting cheap food