Midterm Flashcards
(109 cards)
1
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What were the two British colonies in South Africa?
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Cape Colony, Natal
2
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What were the two Boer colonies in South Africa?
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Transvaal, Orange Free State
3
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When was the Glorious Revolution?
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1688
4
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When was the Catholic emancipation?
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1829
5
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What did the Great Reform Act do?
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made the franchise more uniform
6
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When was the Great Reform Act passed?
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1832
7
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What did the second reform act do?
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enfranchised urban men
8
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What did the Third Reform Act do?
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Enfranchised rural workers
9
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What did the Parliament act do?
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Gave supremacy to the House of Commons?
10
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When were all men and women over 30 given suffrage?
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1918
11
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When was full suffrage given to everyone over 21
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1928
12
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When was the voting age reduced to 18
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1969
13
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Who wrote ‘The Making of the English Working Class
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E.P Thompson
14
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What does the social interpretation of English history say?
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England is the history of the laboring class rising
15
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What rebellion took place in Jamaica?
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the Morant Bay Rebellion
16
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When was the South African war
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1899-1902
17
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When was WWI
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1914-1918 (then Irish independence)
18
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When was the Amritsar massacre?
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1919
19
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When was WWII
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1939-1945 (then Indian independence)
20
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What are professor’s three main governments?
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- New liberalism
- Social democracy
- Neo liberalism (thatcher/blair)
21
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On the eve of WWI, how many people worked in agriculture?
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1/8
22
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What was the equal franchise act?
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Equalized franchise between women and men
23
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Who was William Gladstone
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dominant liberal politician in late Victorian period
24
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Who was Robert Cecil?
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leader of conservative party till about 1903
25
Who was Spencer Cavendish
liberal whig, leaves party because of home rule
26
Who was Joseph Chamberlain
board of trade -> leaving because of home rule
27
Who is Charles Parnell
Head of Irish parliamentary party
28
Who is Arthur Balfour
flexible conservative
29
When does Canada become a federation?
1867
30
When does Australia become a federation?
1901
31
What were the major struggles of the Victorians?
International imperialism
| Irish home rule
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What are two examples of conservative society?
The navy league
| The primrose league
33
Who was Curzon?
imperial proconsul
34
Who was Cromer
imperial proconsul
35
Who was Milner?
imperial proconsul
36
Does Chamberlain want tariffs?
Yes
37
What did the New Poor Law of 1834
Ended public benefits, encouraged workhouses
38
What was the main distinction Rowntree made with poverty?
Poverty as structural
39
What was TH Green and Robert Elsmere advocating?
Hegelian altruism
40
Who were Samuel and Henrietta Barnett?
other social workers
41
What were the Fabian Essays in Socialism?
Socialism circle jerk
42
What was William Booth's In Darkest England and The Way Out, about?
It was about personal change, because bad behavior is fundamentally addictive.
43
What did Tom Mann do
Dock worker stuff
44
What did the dockers strike for
The Tanner
45
What did the Children's Act of 1908 do?
Give school lunches new liberal
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What were three social reforms the new liberals passed?
school meals
old age pensions
health insurance
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What were three economic reforms the new liberals passed
unemployment insurance
labour exchanges
Trade boards act
48
What did James Kier Hardie do
was an independent socialist
49
What was Ramsay McDonald all about?
Would lead with the Baldwin axis, labour rep
50
What was Phillip Snowden about?
labour
51
When did labour get into parliament?
1906
52
What did the Osborne thing rule?
Unions don't collect levies
53
When are women allowed to stand office in boroughs and city councils?
1907
54
What was the National Union of Women's suffrage societies about?
feminism
55
What were the WSPUs also known as
suffragettes
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What were the cat and mouse acts intended to do?
Release hunger strikers, and then bring them back in
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What are the three main battles for WWI
Marne, Somme, Ypres/Passchendaele
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What part of Africa is much of WWI fought
East
59
How many people died in WWI, and what was the break down
9.4-5.4 allies-4 central
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What does the ministry of munitions pave the way to
a post war coalition government in 1915
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When does Lloyd George become PM
Dec. 1916
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What was the Easter Rising
1,600 Irish people declare independence
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What did the Lucknow Pact do
Alliance between Indian Congress and Muslim League
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What did the Government of INdia Act do?
Expanded participation of Indians into government
65
What did the Hussein-McMahon agreement do
Arab state promise in exchange for fighting
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What did the Sykes Picot agreement do?
Divides middle east between France and Britain
67
What did the Balfour declaration do?
Promised Jews a national home
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What did Ibn Faysal do?
set up an ARab state in Syria
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Where does Britain transfer Faysal
Iraq
70
What did the treaty of sevres do?
creates Turkish state
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What did the Treaty of Luasanne do?
Tried to abolish the Turkish state
72
How many people remained unemployed during 'The Slump'
Over 10%, 2 million people
73
The Geddes Axe
cuts war time services and programs
74
Where is Lloyd George ousted?
the Carlton club, the 1922 committee
75
What was Bonar Law all about?
Conservative leader, PM between '22-23
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Who were the IRA boys around '22
Collins and Valera
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Who rejects Lloyd George's coalition?
Labour and the Asquithian liberals
78
Who was Sir Oliver Lodge?
Spiritualist
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What did Vera Brittain argue?
War should never be resolved as a complete, good thing
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What were the flappers reacting to?
'Goodbye to all that' and being surplus women
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What is the MacDonald-Baldwin Axis
interplay between '22-35 of the two PMS. One is conservative, the other is labour
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What does budget orthodoxy mean
no protectionism, return to gold, balanced budgets
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What was the Yellow Book
Leftist think tank including Keynes
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What do the Liberals make their platform in 1926
the living wage
85
What does labour revive in 1931
end of gold standard
10% benefits and salary things
restructuring unemployment
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Who was Oswlad Mosley
fascist, advocated battle of cable street
87
Lloyd George's council of action
more planning
88
hat did the public order act do
controlled extreme views
89
Locarno agreement
policy of containing germany after WWI
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When did the Nazi's seize power
1933
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When did the Italians become agressive
1935
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What did the Ottawa conference firmly establish
imperial preference for the dominions
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What did Treaty of Westminster do
preference for dominions
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What was the 1938 conservative response to Hitler
resigning after all the appeasement
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When was the Battle of Stalingrad
1942
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When was the Italian landing
1943
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When were the Normandy landings
1944
98
When was ictory in Europe achieved
1945
99
When was victory in Japan achieved
1945
100
Who was not asked in going to WWII
India
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What were WWII's consequences for the empire
Resentment about top down approach
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What fraction of houses were effected by WWII
2 in 7
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What was the rhetoric for WWII suffering
equality of sacrifice
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What were the Bevridge assumptions
full employfment and national health, family allowances, the male breadwinner
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What were the major trade offs in funding the welfare state
currency devaluation, taxes, loan from the americans
106
Who was Bevan
labour
107
who was Morrisson
labour
108
Who was cripps
labour
109
who was Bevin
labour
