Great Britain Flashcards

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What were the two major political parties in Great Britain?

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conservative and liberal

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Who was Lord Derby?

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-conservative
-prime minister,
more interested in horse racing, card playing, and gambling

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Who was Benjamin Disraeli?

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chancellor of exchequer under lord derby. launched the reform act of 1867; would later become prime minister of the conservative party

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What was the reform act of 1867?

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  • Disraeli was the one who guided it to its passage
  • gave the right to vote for city working men
  • acceptance of democracy
  • first beneficiary was the liberal part
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5
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Who is William Gladstone?

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-liberal prime minister
-glorious ministry
-passed the elementary education act, secret ballot act

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Who was Lord Salisbury?

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-created New imperialism European states to expand territorial holdings and expand into new states to claim as theirs
- said that was european dominance was needed to modernize backward people
- would expand in Africa which would cause conflict with France
- France would back down and allow Britain to obtain Africa

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what is the elementary education act of 1870?

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  • for the first time in british, a national system of education was established
    • elementary schools were put in reach of the children
  • establishment of government inspectors
    • made sure schools were incompliance of with the government rules
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what was the secret ballot act?

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  • Open Ballot, anyone would see how you were voting
    • encourage bribery and intimidation
  • ended the problems
  • can vote secretly
  • reduce corruption in british politics
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What was the liberal triumph?

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the liberal wining the presidential campaign in 1906

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What did the house of lord often do?

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absolute veto: meaning the bill wast often licked off

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Who was Herbert Asquith?

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prime minister of the liberal party that was given the name sledgehammer due to being a good debater

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Who was David Lloyd?

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-chancellor of the exchequer
-introduced the “people’s budget” & parliament act of 1911

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what is the people’s budget?

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  • introduced a graduated income tax
  • passed the house of commons, but was vetoed in the house of lords
    • this was in violation of the british constitution
  • became a national point in national elections of 1910
    • the liberals would ended up winning for continued change
    • conservative would eventually accept the people’s budget
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What was the parliament act of 1911?

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  • reduced the power of house of lords to a ceremonial function
  • asked the house of lord’s toreplace absolute veto with a suspension of veto
    • would slow done but could not kill it for two years
    • financial measures would become law after one month
  • confirmed the supremacy of the house of commons in affairs of national government
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What was the militant women’s movement?

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  • demanded the right to vote for women
  • “votes for women”
  • they were the called the suffragettes
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Who was Emmeline Pankhurst?

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head of the women’s social and political union

17
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What was the labor militancy?

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  • trade/worker unions that were demanding greater protection and increase and salary
  • climax when the most three powerful union came together to form the Triple industrial alliance
    • railroad men, transport men, & coal miners
    • had talks of a strike, which would result in a stop of british economy
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What is the Irish Home Rule?

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  • Gladstone has lost his job for favoring Ireland having its own rule
  • Britian had previously said they would stop discrimination against Ireland
    • Ireland could send irish catholics to parliament
    • Acts of Union in 1800 agreed on both sides of British and Ireland
      • British did not go through with catholic emancipation
19
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What was the Home Rule Bill?

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  • passed in the house of commons which would provide Ireland their own parliament
    • House of Lords exercised suspension veto
20
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What was the outbreak of World War I?

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Britain would be on the brink of civil war but World War I would occur, Britain alongside France, Russia would enter the war as a triple entre against the central powers in europe (Germany, Austria, and Hungary)