Reason for the passing of Liberal Reforms 1906-1914 Flashcards
What percentage of people living in poverty accessed the Poor Law?
10%
Rowntree’s findings:
27.8% of York’s population lived in poverty in 1899.
What minimum wage did Rowntree discover was required to afford basic necessities?
21s 8d (£1.08)
What is the significance of the value: 25%?
It is the percentage of volunteers for the Boer War in 1899 that had to be rejected on medical grounds.
Answer: 8000
Question: How many applicants for the armed forces had to be rejected in Manchester, in regards to the Boer War?
Philosophers T…….. and ……….Hobson
H Green
J A
From what and to what was the height restrictions for the army deduced to by 1845?
From 5’6 to 5’2
This organisation set out to research the physical state of Scotland’s youth in 1903.
The Royal Commission on Physical Training in Scotland.
Who introduced what which threatened Britain’s standing in the world?
Former German Chancellor Otto Von Bismark
Social welfare reforms which gave German workers multiple welfare benefits and old age pensions.
Winston Churchill said this in regards to the government’s responsibilities on poverty.
“I see little glory in an empire which can rule the waves but is unable to flush its own sewers”.
Answer: It provided clean water to the residents of (Spoilers) and showed that social reforms could improve the lives of the nation as it caused Cholera death rates to plummet.
Question: What did the Glasgow Corporation Waterworks Act of 1855 accomplish?
What is the main argument against Municipal Socialism being the main reason for the Liberal Reforms?
It was prominent decades prior to the introduction of said reforms.
Key New Liberals, David Lloyd George and Winston Churchill, were appointed by Campbell-Bannerman in….
1908
What effectively nullified the threat of the Labour Party to the Liberals?
The Secret Electoral Pact of 1903.
What “cemented” the threat of the Labour Party?
Three Liberal seats were lost to Labour in 1907 by-elections.
