1906 Election

Question 1

Education Act

Answer 1

1902
Before 1902, Anglican and Catholic funded by churches
All schools funded from local rates
Angered non-conformists

Question 2

Licensing Act

Answer 2

1904
Reduced pubs
Compensation (Brewers Bill)
Non-conformists didn’t drink

Question 3

Chinese Labour

Answer 3

Low wages
Being imported to South Africa
Moral outcry from NCs about treatment
Concern for TUs - reduce wages

Question 4

Taff Vale Case

Answer 4

Dispute between railway workers’ TU and company
Demanded compensation
1902 House of Lords said they had right to sue

Question 5

Poverty

Answer 5

Conservatives only done education act

Question 6

Tariff Reform

Answer 6

Joseph Chamberlain 1903
Tariffs - lower for empire
Feared increased food prices and low standard of living

Question 7

Liberals better

Answer 7

Free Trade
Balfour lacked skill
Exploit conservative mistakes

Question 8

Lib-Lab Pact

Answer 8

1903
30 constituencies where labour more likely to defeats conservatives
Labour restricted in other constituencies
Shared beliefs

Question 9

Results of election

Answer 9

LRC - 29
Conservatives-157
Liberals - 401

Question 10

Boer war facts

Answer 10

Patriotic support for conservatives
Concentration camps
2/3 recruits medically unfit