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ch20--The Victorian Age Flashcards

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___% of the earth’s surface belonged to the British empire; “The sun never sets on the British Empire.”

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25%

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Victoria became the Queen of England at __ yrs old

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18

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Victoria’s resolution

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“I will be good.”

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longest-ruling monarch in English history

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Victoria (ruled for 64 years)

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prince consort of England; Victoria’s husband

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Prince Albert

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“the right to vote”; by the late 1800s, all adult males gained suffrage in England

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Suffrage

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middle class of England; represented mostly by William Gladstone

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Liberals

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upper class of England; represented mostly by Benjamin Disraeli

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Conservatives

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represented liberals
represented conservatives

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William Gladstone
Benjamin Disraeli

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best known preacher in America during the Victorian Age. his song leader?

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D.L. Moody; Ira Sankey

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cricket player who surrendered to missions

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C.T. Studd

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missionary to China in the late 1800’s; founded the China Inland Mission

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J. Hudson Taylor

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hurt the Christian influence in China

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Boxer Rebellion

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first ambassador to Japan who helped bring missionaries

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Townshend Harris

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one of the first missionaries to the interior of Japan

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“Joseph Hardy” Neesima

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first Baptist missionary to Japan

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Jonathan Goble

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invented the rickshaw

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Jonathan Goble

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German missionary to England known for building orphanages and his strong prayer life

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George Muller

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founder of the Salvation Army in England

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William Booth

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offered food, shelter, and the Gospel to inner-city working men

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YMCA (Young Men’s Christian Association)

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created the modern nursing profession for England during the Crimean War

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Florence Nightingale

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Florence Nightingale worked during what war?

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Crimean War

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the establishment of colonies in an empire to benefit the empire

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Imperialism

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Reasons for Expansion

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Economic Growth (GOLD)
Religious Outreach (GOD)
Patriotic Pride (GLORY)

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Negotiations between government of nations
Diplomacy
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Most of England’s growth came through ____
diplomacy
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England and their allies vs. Russia England won and stopped the expansion of Russia in the Middle East
Crimean War (1854-1856)
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made Canada commonwealth
British North America
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self-governing group of states
commonwealth
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Powerful trade company that fought and gained control of India (great tool for British settlement)
East India Company
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a rebellion that started in the British Army against British Control
Sepoy Rebellion
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Helped England regain control
India Act
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translated the Bible into over 40 Indian languages and dialects and helped improve Indian education and civilization
William Carey
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rescued young Indian girls from pagan temples
Amy Carmichael
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Until the 1800s, colonizing and civilizing Africa was almost non-existent except for the __________
slave trade
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*first European to cross the Sahara desert*; also discovered Lake Chad
Hugh Claperton
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most famous missionary explorer of Africa; also discovered Victoria Falls
David Livingstone
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American explorer sent to find Livingstone
Henry Stanley
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first black bishop of the church of England
Samuel Adjai Crowther
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founded in 1847 as the first Independent African Republic
Liberia
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missionaries who helped with the founding and setting of Liberia
Lott Carey and Colin Teague
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one of Liberia's most famous evangelists; started his mission work at 60 years old
William Harris
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South African Dutch farmers
Boers
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The earliest European settlers were the ____; also known as ____
Dutch; Afrikaners
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Took control of south africa
England
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The Boers moved north ("Great Trek") and established the _______ and _____
orange free state and transversal
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War between Boers and england
Boer war (1899)
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British P.M. who invited rebellion to unite Africa under British rule
Cecil Rhodes
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Date Boers surrendered
1902
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England United Boer and British lands. Date?
Union of South Africa. 1910
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England took control of the Suez canal and Egypt by the late 1800s for their ______
trade empire
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Discovered and explored Australia in the 1700's
James Cook
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Australia was originally used as what?
prisoner colony
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natives of australia
aborigines
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increased the Australian population by 800%
Australian Gold Rush
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Australia had become an Independent Commonwealth by ____
1901
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natives of New Zealand
Maoris
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England colonized and took control of New Zealand in ____
1840
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New Zealand became independent in ____
1907
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association of nations that recognizes the British monarch as their symbolic head
*British Commonwealth of Nations*
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England and Ireland’s main source of tension
Protestant vs. Catholic
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became independent in 1949
Republic of Ireland
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remained part of England
North Ireland
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Queen Victoria’s son who ruled from 1901-1910; Returned to the immoral, selfish ways of previous kings
Edward VII
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government control of the nation’s resources and finances; *“the greatest happiness for the greatest number”*
Socialism
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popularized the theory of evolution. when?
Charles Darwin; 1859
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another name for Modernism
religious liberalism
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The false teaching that the bible is not God’s Word but stories and myths
Modernism (religious liberalism)

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