chapter 20 Flashcards
who was the prime minister during the french revolution / Napoleonic wars
- aka the most outstanding
British leader at the
beginning of the 19th century
william Pitt the younger
esteemed hero of the Napoleonic Wars - also prime minister
duke of Wellington
prime minister who was the founder of the police
sir Robert peel
england’s longest reigning monarch
queen Victoria
what monarch changed the people’s views from disdain to respect
Queen Victoria
what was Queen Victoria’s resolution for her 64 year reign
“be good”
what was the catchphrase of England in the Victorian age ?
“the sun never sets on the British empire”
the first world fair
great exhibition of 1851
who married queen Victoria
prince Albert
called the prince consort
prince albert
right to vote
suffrage
granted to the middle class men suffrage
reform bill of 1832
of the two party’s who was the middle class
the liberals
known as the grand old man
William gladstone
made up of the nobility and other wealthy people
conservatives
leader of conservatives
Benjamin Disraeli (dizzy)
greatest Victorian preacher
Charles spurgeon
known as prince of preachers
Charles spurgeon
Known for Bible character devotions
F.B. Meyer
what “raised them” that we are to take and raise ourselves”
the Bible
biggest most important Chinese missionary
Hudson Taylor
Chinese dictionary and Bible
Robert Morrison
formed salvation army
William booth
known for his evangelism in America
Dwight L Moody
the song leader who joined moody
Ira Sankey
what century was known as the great century of missions
19th
founder of the China Inland Mission
J Hudson Taylor
aided by Chinese government authorities, destroyed property belonging to Westerners and killed over 200 people (many were missionaries)
Boxer Rebellion
the first diplomatic representative that america sent to japan
townsend harris
in 1858 what permitted missionaries to enter japan?
treaty of amity and commerce (also called the townsend harris treaty)
first baptist missionary to Japan
Jonathan Goble
most famous Japanese Christian
Neesima
known for his orphanages
george Muller
est in england to meet the needs and spiritual condition of young men
YMCA
conditions for children, laborers, and mentally handicapped were improved by who?
Lord Ashley
single handedly created the modern nursing profession
Florence Nightingale
what was 1880-1900 called
the great age of british empirialism
3 reasons why Great Britain expanded her empire
Gold,God,Glory
strategic negotiation between nations
diplomacy
britain joined france and sardinia to stop russias attempt to assert its dominance over turkey
crimean war
england’s chief north american possession
canada
made canada a self governing commonwealth
british north america act
a tool of the british settlement which was a powerful trade company which was not connected with the government
east india company
believing that the british officers had little respect for their religious beliefs, the native indian troops rebelled rather than violate their religion
sepoy rebellion
wrested away the last vestiges of political authority from the East India Co and gave it to the British govt
india act
responsible for the translation of the bible into 40 indian languages
and dialects - also wrote grammar books
william carey
rescued young indian girls from prostitution
amy carmichael
most famous explorer of Africa
David Livingstone
africas largest waterfall
victoria falls
a young reporter sent to find david livingstone
henry stanley
The first black Bishop of the Church of England
Samuel Adjai, Crowther
first independent, African republic
Liberia
name for the African farmers
Boers
When thousands of boers left resenting the British government and wanting to govern themselves What did they start?
the great trek
once the Bowers left on the great track, they established what two new republics?
transvaal and the orange free state
in 1910, the Boers and the British joined together to form what
union of south africa
connects the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea and was valuable for trade
The Suez canal
The original inhabitants of Australia
Aborigines
The Inhabitant of New Zealand
maoris
an association of nations acknowledging the british empire as their symbolic head
The british commonwealth of nations
after Victoria died who ascended to the throne
edward VII
who proposed evolution
charles darwin
who coined the term agnostic
thomas henry huxley
the idea that matter is the only reality and that everything in the world, including thought, will, and feeling, must be explained in terms of matter.
materialism
the idea that government should own or at least control a nation’s economy (including its businesses, factories, and other means of pro-duction) in order to provide for the needs of the people.
socialism
a group who wanted benevolent social reform but did not want to take the Bible literally
christian socialist
a philosophy which cut to the very heart of all that had made Britain great.- believed that the Bible was merely a beautiful myth and full of errors.
modernism
what is when a nation creates different colonies for itself
imperialism
another name for evolution (named for the person who came up with it)
darwinism
what was Africa named because of how unexplored it was
dark continent
father of African missions
lott Carey
who explored Australia
captain James cook
the British prime minister of the Cape Colony, began antagonizing the Boer republics by inciting the Uitlanders to rebellion as part of a scheme to potentially unite much of Africa under British rule.
Cecil Rhodes
the war between the boer colonies and the bristish (the bristish won)
boer war
sent by queen Victoria to investigate Canada
Lord Durham
