Chapter 20 Flashcards
1
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Who was the most outstanding British leader at the beginning of the 19th century?
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William Pitt the Younger
2
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Who was Britain’s esteemed hero of the Napoleonic Wars?
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Duke of Wellington
3
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Who is remembered for founding the London Metropolitan Police?
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Sir Robert Peel
4
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Who was the longest-ruling monarch in English history?
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Victoria
5
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How long was Queen Victoria’s reign?
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64 years
6
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What could be said because the British Empire covered a quarter of the globe and included about a quarter of the world’s people?
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“The sun never sets on the British Empire”
7
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Who was the husband of Queen Victoria who was called the prince consort?
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Prince Albert
8
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According of Queen Victoria, what was the secret of England’s success?
A
the Bible
9
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What was the first world’s fair?
A
Great Exhibition
10
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What is the right to vote?
A
suffrage
11
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What eventually granted suffrage to middle-class males?
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Reform Bill
12
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When was the Reform Bill?
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1832
13
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What was the party that represented the middle-class of the Industrial Age?
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Liberals
14
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What was the party that represented the nobility and other wealthy people?
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Conservatives
15
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Who was, for a time, a Conservative before joining the ranks of the Liberal party?
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William Gladstone
16
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What was the nickname given to William Gladstone?
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“The Grand Old Man”
17
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Who was a Jewish descent who swung from liberalism to become the renowned leader of the Conservative party?
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Benjamin Disraeli
18
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Who was the greatest preacher of the Victorian Era and the pastor of London’s largest church?
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Charles Haddon Spurgeon
19
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Who was acclaimed as the “Prince of Preachers”?
A
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
20
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Who was a popular preacher of the Victorian Age who wrote several devotional studies?
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F. B. Meyers
21
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Who was the great American evangelist who had a tremendous influence upon the people of Victorian Britain?
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Dwight L. Moddy
22
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Who was Moody’s song leader who traveled with him?
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Ira Sankey
23
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Who was a famous cricket player who spent his life as a missionary to China, India, and Africa?
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C. T. Studd
24
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Who was a missionary who worked with the people of Labrador and Newfoundland?
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Wilfred Grenfell
25
Who were the two early Presbyterian pioneers in China?
Robert Morrison and William Burns
26
Which of the two early Presbyterian pioneers in China wrote a Chinese dictionary and translated the Bible into Chinese?
Robert Morrison
27
Who was the founder of the China Inland Mission?
J. Hudson Taylor
28
What was the rebellion that destroyed property belonging to Westerners and killed over 200 people?
Boxer Rebellion
29
Who convince Japan to sign the treaty for trade and diplomatic relationships with the United States?
Commodore Matthew Perry
30
Who was the first diplomatic representative that America sent to Japan?
Townsend Harris
31
What was the treaty that permitted missionaries to enter Japan?
Treaty of Amity and Commerce
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When was the Treaty of Amity and Commerce signed?
1858
33
Who was the first Baptist missionary to Japan?
Jonathan Goble
34
What was a famous Japanese mode of transportation?
rickshaw
35
Who was the most famous of all Japanese Christians?
Neesima
36
Who was one of England's most famous humanitarians who was actually a German missionary and was a man of great faith and prayer?
George Müller
37
Who was the founder of the Salvation Army?
William Booth
38
What was William Booth's ministry called?
Salvation Army
39
What was the organization founded in the 19th century to do benevolent work with men?
YMCA (Young Men's Christian Association)
40
Who helped improve conditions for children laborers and the mentally handicapped?
Lord Ashley
41
What type of organizations ran most of Britain's schools?
Christian organizations
42
What were the schools that compensated for the lack of qualified teachers by training older children to help teach younger children?
monitorial schools
43
Who single-handedly created the modern nursing profession?
Florence Nightingale
44
What is the time period between 1880 and 1900 alone known as?
the great age of British imperialism
45
When was the great age of British imperialism?
between 1880 and 1900
46
What are the three reasons that Britian expanded her empire?
gold, God, and glory
47
What factors were important in Britain's expansion from the very beginning?
economic factors
48
What factors that were important in Britain's expansion after the economic factors?
relgious factors
49
What factors that were important in Britain's expansion lastly?
patriotic
50
What is the strategic negotiation between nations?
diplomacy
51
What was the war in which Britain joined France and Sardinia to stop Russia's attempt to assert its dominance over Turkey and seize portions of Turkish territory?
Crimean War
52
What diminished Britain's empire in the New World substantially?
the American War for Independence
53
Because of the American War for Independence, what was England's chief North American possession?
Canada
54
Who was sent to Canada by Queen Victoria to investigate the conditions there?
Lord Durham
55
What was the act that made Canada a self-governing commonwealth?
British North America Act
56
When was the British North America Act enacted?
1867
57
What was the powerful trade company which was not officially connected with the government but held extensive control in India?
East India Company
58
What was the battle in which England was the only European power left in India?
Battle of Plassely
59
When did the Battle of Plassely take place?
1757
60
What began when the native Indian troops rebelled against the British?
Sepoy Rebellion
61
What wrested away the last vestiges of political authority from the East India Company and gave full political control of India to the British government?
India Act
62
Who was responsible for the translation of the Bible into over 40 Indian languages and dialects?
William Carey
63
What was the practice of forcing widows to hurl themselves upon their husband's funeral fires?
suttee
64
Who worked for years to rescue young Indian girls from a life of prostitution in the pagan temples?
Amy Carmichael
65
What did people call Africa because so little was known about the lant and its people?
The "Dark Continent"
66
What fostered intense hostility and hatred in Africa among the nations?
slave trade
67
What was Africa known as because of how many explorers and missionaries died?
the "White Man's Grave"
68
Who explored the source of the Blue Nile?
James Bruce
69
Who traced most of the Niger River?
Mungo Park
70
What is Africa's third largest river?
Niger River
71
Who was the first European to cross the Sahara Desert and also discovered Lake Chad?
Hugh Clapperton
72
Who was the first European to reach the trading post of Timbuktu?
Alexander Laing
73
Who was the most famous of the explores to Africa?
David Livingston
74
Who was one of the first missionaries to Africa who translated the Bible and Pilgrim's Progress into the people's native tongue?
Robert Moffat
75
What is Africa's largest waterfall?
Victoria Falls
76
Who was a young American reporter dispatched to find the famous missionary David Livingston?
Henry Stanley
77
Who was a great British philanthropist who helped many former slaves to colonize Freetown?
Granville Sharp
78
Who was the first black bishop of the Church of England?
Samuel Adjai Crowther
79
What is the most unique of all the African states?
Liberia
80
What was the first independent African republic?
Monrovia
81
Who were the first African American missionaries from the United States that were the first Christian missionaries to Liberia?
Lott Carey and Colin Teague
82
Who was the Liberian evangelist who began preaching along the Ivory Coast when he was 60 years old?
William Harris
83
What was the African tribal chief who was moved by a Christian's testimony and went to share the gospel with other tribes?
Khama
84
What were the Dutch colonists who established a thriving colony and even made efforts to evangelize to the native Africans of the region?
Afrikaners
85
Who were farmers who spread out from the Cape in search of land for their grwoing herds?
Boers
86
What began when thousands of Boers packed up and left the Cape because they desired to rule themselves/
Great Trek
87
What were the two republics that were established by the Boers?
Transvaal and Orange Free State
88
Who was the British prime minister of the Cape Colony?
Cecil Rhodes
89
What erupted when the British and the Boer colonies collapsed entirely?
Boer War
90
Who was the president of the Transvaal during the Boer War?
Paul Kruger
91
Who was the daring Afrikaner general during the Boer War?
Louis Botha
92
What was a dominion with a representative government in the tradition of Great Britain?
Union of South Africa
93
What connects the Red Sea with the Mediterranean Sea?
Suez Canal
94
What was the place that very little, including its existence, was known about it until Captain Cook's famous explorations?
Australia
95
What is the group of islands southeast of Australia?
New Zealand
96
Who were the original inhabitants of the land of Australia?
Aborigines
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What greatly escalated the rate of colonization by 800% in Australia?
Australian Gold Rush
98
When did Australia become an independent commonwealth with its own parliamentary government?
1961
99
Who were the original inhabitants of the islands of New Zealand?
Mauris
100
When did New Zealand become independent with a parliamentary government of her own?
1907
101
What was an association of nations acknowledging the British monarch as the symbolic head?
British Commonwealth of Nations
102
What was the key issue preventing peace between England and Ireland?
religion
103
What finally and officially joined England and Ireland?
Act of Union
104
What allowed Irish Catholics to vote and to sit in Parliament?
Catholic Emancipation Act
105
What made Ireland's grievances against England more acute than ever?
potato famine
106
What was the northeaster Irish province that preferred to remain a part of Protestant England?
Ulster
107
What did 26 of Ireland's counties become included membership in the British Commonwealth of Nations?
Irish Free State
108
When did the Irish Free State become completely independent of the Commonwealth of Nations and established the Republic of Ireland?
1949
109
What are the six Protestant counties of Ulster now known as?
Northern Ireland
110
Who was Queen Victoria's son who ascended to the throne once his mother died and did not share her resolution to "be good"?
Edward VII
111
What was the British naturalist who published On the Origin of Species?
Charles Darwin
112
What was the book that proposed that life on earth had "evolved" over time through the process of natural selection?
On the Origin of Species
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What was the theory that stated that life on earth had "evolved" over time through the process of natural selection?
evolution
114
What is evolution also known as?
Darwinism
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Who promoted Darwinism and helped it gain further respectability as well as coined the term agnostic?
Thomas Henry Huxley
116
What is the term that describes one who believes that the existence of God and anything but material reality cannot be proved by human reasoning?
agnostic
117
What is the idea that matter is the only reality and that everything in the world must be explained in terms of matter?
materialism
118
What is the idea that the government should own or at least control a nation's economy?
socialism
119
What were British socialists that believes that the goal of life is "the greatest happiness for the greatest number" known as?
utilitarians
120
What was the group who wanted benevolent social reform but did not want to take the Bible literally?
Christian Socialists
121
What group demanded immediate voting rights for all men?
Chartists
122
Who was the most famous Christian Socialist?
Charles Kingsley
123
What became influential by teaching that socialism should be achieved gradually?
Fabian Society
124
Who were the three people that founded the Fabian Society?
- George Bernard Shaw
- Sidney Webb
- Beatrice Webb
125
What is the philosophy that cut into the very heart of all that had made Britian great and taught that the Bible was merely a beautiful myth and full of errors?
modernism
