Chapter 20-The Victorian Era: England's Age of Progress+Chapter 21-Unbelief & Revolution in 19th-Century Europe Flashcards
Who was a great leader at the beginning of the 19th century, was Britain’s esteemed hero of the Napoleonic Wars, and following these wars, became commander in chief of the military, and later served as prime minister?
Duke of Wellington
Who was was the important leader of the beginning of the 19th century, who served positions in Parliament, the cabinet, and two terms as prime minister, and also founded the London Metropolitan Police force?
Sir Robert Peel
Who were the three great English statesmen of the beginning of the 19th century?
William Pitt the Younger,
Duke of Wellington,
Sir Robert Peel,
Who was the longest-ruling monarch in English history, ruled for 64 years, began ruling at the age of 18, and was a good queen?
Victoria
Under the leadership of Queen Victoria, the British Empire covered a quarter of the globe, and included about a quarter of the world’s people, so that it could be said:
“The sun never sets on the British Empire”
In 1851, Britain’s great scientific, industrial, and cultural achievements were brilliantly displayed at the ________________, the first world’s fair.
Great Exhibition
In 1840, Queen Victoria married _________________ of Germany, who was also called prince consort, having nine children, their model marriage was an inspiration to the English people.
Prince Albert
After several attempts were made to reform the political system, ______________ (the right to vote) was eventually granted to middle-class males by the Reform Bill of 1832.
Suffrage
After several attempts we’re made to reform the political system, suffrage (the right to vote) was eventually granted to middle-class males by the:
Reform Bills of 1832
What two parties was the Parliament divided into?
Liberals,
Conservatives
What was the division of the Parliament that represented the middle class of the Industrial Age?
Liberals
What was the division of the Parliament that represented the nobility and other wealthy people?
Conservatives
Who was the man who was a Conservative before joining the ranks of the liberal party and fervently espousing the rights of the common man, has been called “The Grand Old Man” and was known as a deeply religious man and a great orator?
William Gladstone
Who was the man of Jewish descent who swung from liberalism to become the renowned leader of the Conservative party, and was especially regarded by Queen Victoria?
Benjamin Disraeli
Who was the most outstanding British leader at the beginning of the 19th century, a member of Parliament, served as prime minister during the French Revolution and much the Napoleonic Wars?
William Pitt the Younger
Who was the greatest preacher of the Victorian Era, was the pastor of London’s largest church, and was acclaimed as the “Prince of Preachers”?
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Who was a preacher of the Victorian Age who wrote several devotional studies of Bible characters that revealed keen insight into practical Christian living?
F.B. Meyer
Who was the great American evangelist who had a successful ministry in America, traveled to Britain in 1873, 1881, and 1891 to preach, and joined by songleader Ira Sankey, he spoke to huge crowds of people throughout England, Scotland, and Northern Ireland?
Dwight L. Moody
Who was the songleader who worked with Dwight L. Moody throughout England, Scotland, and Northern Ireland?
Ira Sankey
Moody influenced several Englishmen to serve on foreign mission fields, including ______________, a famous cricket player who spent his life as a missionary to China, India, and Africa.
C. T. Studd
Moody influenced several Englishmen to serve on foreign mission fields, including _______________ who worked with the people of Labrador and Newfoundland.
Wilfred Grenfell
Who were the two early Presbyterian pioneers in China, the first of them translated the Bible into Chinese?
Robert Morrison (translated), William Burns
Who was the Methodist physician-preacher, was the greatest of all British missionaries in China, and the founder of the China Inland Mission, and is remembered for his determination to depend upon God alone?
J. Hudson Taylor
J. Hudson Taylor was the founder of the:
China Inland Mission
What was the rebellion aided by Chinese government authorities, destroyed property belonging to Westerners and killed over 200 people, many of whom were American and European missionaries?
Boxer Rebellion
After much negotiation, a U.S. naval officer __________________ convinced Japan to sign the treaty for trade and diplomatic relations with the United States.
Commodore Matthew Perry
Japan was finally opened to Christian missions through the efforts of _______________, the first diplomatic representative that America sent to Japan.
Townsend Harris
In what year did Townsend Harris persuade the Japanese to sign the Treaty of Amity and Commerce?
1858
In 1858, Townsend Harris persuaded the Japanese to sign the _____________________, which permitted missionaries to enter Japan.
Treaty of Amity and Commerce
Who was the first Baptist missionary to Japan who invented the rickshaw?
Jonathan Goble
When a serious illness left Globe’s wife unable to walk, he invented the world’s first ____________ to help her get out.
Rickshaw
Who was the most famous of all Japanese Christians, who became one of the first people to take the gospel message to the interior of Japan, and died at only age 47?
Neesima
Who was one of England’s most famous humanitarians, was a German missionary, a man of great prayer and faith, founded orphanages for the children of Bristol, England, and trusted God for everything?
George Müller
Who was a Christian who showed compassion to the needy, was a Methodist evangelist, and in 1865, began a mission in the darkest slums of London, and his ministry became known as the Salvation Army?
William Booth
In 1878, William Booth’s ministry became known as the:
Salvation Army
What was an organization formed in the 19th century to do benevolent work was the _________________, that the needs of young men staying out of temptation in the city, moving from the country.
Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA)
Conditions for children, laborers, and the mentally handicapped were improved through the efforts of ____________, the earl of Shaftesbury. Promoted several laws that eased the difficult conditions in factories and lowered the number of working hours per day, and prohibited women and children from working in such dangerous occupations.
Lord Ashley
Until the 20th century, most British schools were run by:
Christian organizations
Who was the daughter of a wealthy Christian family in England, who chose to become a nurse, and after receiving training in Germany, returned to Britain, where she single-handedly created the modern nursing profession.
Florence Nightingale
What was the age between 1880 and 1900 alone, where nearly a million square miles of territory were added to the British Empire?
great age of the British Empire
Someone has said that Britain expanded her empire throughout the world for three reasons _______________. The economic factors were important from the very beginning.
“gold, God, and glory”
Much of the British Empire was acquired through _______________, strategic negotiation between nations.
Diplomacy
In what war did Britain join France and Sardinia to stop Russia’s attempt to assert its dominance over Turkey and seize portions of Turkish territory, a move which also endangered British interests in the Middle East?
Crimean War
Queen Victoria sent ____________ to investigate conditions in Canada, and he made the three suggestions for settling the problem of: 1. Reuniting the two sections into one. 2. Give the Canadians a representative government. 3. Follow a plan for settlement of unoccupied territories.
Lord Durham
Durham’s plan was gradually enacted, and in 1867, the _________________ made Canada a self-governing commonwealth (federation of states).
British North America Act
In what year did the British North America Act make Canada a self-governing commonwealth?
1867
The tool of British settlement was the _______________, a powerful trade company which was not officially connected with the government.
East India Company
In what year did Robert Clive win the Battle of Plassey against Indian forces?
1757
After 1757, when Robert Clive won the _______________ against Indian forces, the East India Company controlled nearly all of India.
Battle of Plassey
The British government did not take complete control of India until a serious uprising called the _______________, which began in 1857 among native soldiers in the British army and involved the age-old religious traditions of India.
Sepoy Rebellion
In 1858, Parliament passed the ______________, which 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
The first and foremost benefit under British rule was the work of Protestant missionaries, such as ________________, who was responsible for the translation of the Bible into over 40 Indian languages and dialects, and helped the Indians improve their agricultural methods, and did much to discourage the Hindu practices of sacrificing babies to idols and suttee.
William Carey
What is the Hindu practice of forcing widows to hurl themselves upon their husband’s funeral fires?
Suttee
Who was the woman from Ireland who worked for years to rescue Indian girls from a life of prostitution in the pagan temples and to bring them to Christ?
Amy Charmichael
Africa was dangerous because of the intense hostility and hatred fostered by the ________________, where Africans would buy and sell each other, raid other tribes and abduct men, women, and children to sell to Arab and Portuguese slave traders.
Slave trade
Who were the four earliest Presbyterian Scotland explorers of the “Dark Continent” of Africa?
James Bruce (Blue Nile), Mungo Park (traced the Niger River), Hugh Claperton (first European to cross Sahara Desert), Alexander Laing (first European to reach the trading post of Timbuktu)
Who was one of the first Presbyterian Scotland explorers who explored the source of the Blue Nile?
James Bruce
Who was one of the first Presbyterian Scotland explorers who traced most of the Niger River, Africa’s third longest river?
Mungo Park
Who was one of the first Presbyterian Scotland explorers who became the first European to cross the Sahara Desert and also discovered Chad Lake?
Hugh Claperton
Who was one of the first Presbyterian Scotland explorers who was the first European to reach the trading post of Timbuktu, deep in the African interior?
Alexander Laing
Who was the most famous of the explorers of Africa from Scotland?
David Livingstone
David Livingstone became the first European to see the “smoke that thunders,” the crashing waters of ________________, Africa’s largest waterfall.
Victoria Falls
When the news of Livingstone’s explorations stopped abruptly, an American newspaper dispatched a young reporter, ______________, to find the famous missionary.
Henry Stanley
Who was the great British philanthropist who helped many former slaves to colonize Freetown in Sierra Leone?
Granville Sharp
Granville Sharp helped many former slaves to colonize _____________ in Sierra Leone and two Christian schools were established there for the evangelization and education of Africans.
Freetown
Who was the first black bishop of the Church of England?
Samuel Adjai Crowther
