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Challenges To The Liberal Gov Flashcards

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Why did Irish Question come back on table

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Liberals lost overall parliamentary majority. Needed Irish MPs to support their budget in 1909.

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When was Third Home Rule Bill

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1912

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What was in third home rule bill

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Would introduce two assemblies in the Irish Parliament including Senate. Ireland would have 42 MPs at Westminster instead of over 100. Safe majority for bill in commons.

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What were the internal issues

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It split the liberals again between unionists and home rulers

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5
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Why was Third Home Rule bill not implemented

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WW1

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What had happened in Ireland by 1914

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Situation had become very violent , in brink of civil war

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Who was arming

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Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF)
35,000 rifles
5 millions rounds of ammunition

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What did people in ulster sign and how many signed it

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Solemn League and Covenant. Signed by half a million ulstermen.

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What did solemn league and covenant say

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Use all means necessary to defeat the present conspiracy to set up a home rule parliament in Ireland

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10
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How many attempts at home rule in how many years

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Three home rule bills in around 50 years. Shows volatility of the subject

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11
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What did Asquith do well with Ireland

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  1. His policies arguably kept things from escalating
  2. Pushed through home rule bill
  3. Held series of conferences to negotiate with both camps
  4. It was agreed that counties with the most Protestants would be left out of home rule
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What did Asquith do badly with Ireland

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  1. Historian Koss argued ‘wait and see policy’ caused the tense situation worse
  2. Asquith failed to stop gun running
  3. He failed to recognise Ulster as separate case, leading to solemn league and covenant
  4. Buckingham palace conference achieved nothing
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What did Simon Lemieux say about Ireland

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Conservatives works have fared no better and would have caused an equally inflammatory situation

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What happened to trade unions in later stages of 19th century

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Grew rapidly, due to a mix of economic change, spread of socialism, failure of new model unions and government legislation.

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How much did trade unions membership grow

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2,210,00 to 4,145,000 in 1914. Strength in number caused real threat

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How many working days lost in 1912 to strike action

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41 million

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17
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How many working days lost between 1909 - 1914

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Approx 80 million

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18
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What were strikes starting to become

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More violent

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19
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How many died at South Wales miners strikes

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3

20
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How many died at disputes in Liverpool

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3

21
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What did government appear over handling of trade unions

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Seemed illiberal over fatalities

22
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What did the times describe the National miners strikes of 1912 as

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‘Greatest national catastrophe since the Spanish Armada’

23
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What did violence and growing membership lead to a fear of

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Syndicalism and the idea of general strike which could bring down the government

24
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What successful policies did government pass to deal with TUs

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1911 national insurance
Introduction of a minimum wage
They did not resolve the issue however

25
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Why did Liberals make situation with TUs worse

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Slow to reverse Osborne judgement which banned unions from funding Labour Party

26
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What did Donald Reid claim

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‘The government had pushed an unemployment policy but had not attempted to follow an overall a labour policy’.

27
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Evaluation about TUs

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Liberals dealt with it poorly, had they done better job it would have likely not posed threat. TU were not threat, liberals made them into one

28
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What did Lloyd George use to offset potential strikes in Britain’s docks

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Threat of Germany

29
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Why was the situation with TUs better in 1914

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Working days lost went from 41 Million in 1912 to 9.9 million in 1914.

30
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Why was situation not so good with trade unions

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Membership was still increasing. 3.4 million in 1912, 4.2 million in 1914

31
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What did Asquith say about women’s suffrage

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They are for the most hopelessly ignorant of politics, credulous to the last degree, and flickering and fusts of sentiment like a candle in the wind

32
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What happened in 1913 at Epsom derby

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Emily Davidson ran in front of kings horse

33
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What other violent methods did suffragettes use

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Arson attacks on post boxes

Attacks on politicians house such as Lloyd George

34
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Who founded suffragettes

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Emmeline Pankhurst in 1903. Set up WSPU

35
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What were Liberals accused of with Suffragettes

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Treated them brutally and illiberally

36
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What was ‘cat and mouse act’

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Where prisoners could be released who were weak from hunger strike only for them to be put back in prison when they were healthy

37
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What ruined reputation of government with suffragettes

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They force fed prisoners on hunger strike with a tube

38
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Why were suffragettes unpopular

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Their violent methods

39
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What happened to Pankhursts

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They were so reviled they moved to Paris before that start of the war

40
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What was wrong with suffragettes violent methods

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It raised questions over what might happen once women gained the vote

41
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What happened to Labour MP George Lansbury

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He lost his seat as MP for Brow and Brimley to a unionist anti-suffrage supporter as he was pro-suffragettes

42
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What group campaigned against women’s suffrage

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Anti-suffrage league

43
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How many members of anti-suffrage league

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10,000 members in 235 branches

44
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What newspaper supported the anti-suffrage league

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The times

45
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Which was the only party to support women’s suffrage movement

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labour

British History HLS (38 decks)

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