Section 1 chapter 4

Question 1

When did the constitutional crisis occur

Answer 1

1909-11

Question 2

Outline the constitutional crisis

Answer 2

-clash between conservative dominated HOL And Liberal dominated HOC
- First stage was over people’s budget
- Second stage over the Parliament Act

Question 3

Outline the first constitutional crisis: The People’s budget

Answer 3

• DLG’s budget of 1909 - angered conservatives
• saw it as attack on rich
• lords rejected the budget - libs called general election on the issue

Question 4

outline the general election of January 1910

Answer 4

• Libs won election
• fought election on issue of whether Britain wanted to be governed by non elected peers (HOL)

Question 5

Outline the second constitutional crisis: The Parliament Act

Answer 5

• 1910 parliament bill - to curb power of HOL
• HOL had no power to reject legislation but could delay for 2 yrs
• king would pass bill if Lib’s won general election held on issue.

Question 6

Outline the general election of December 1910

Answer 6

• Produced similar results to Jan election
• Liberals could rely on working majority
• May 1911 - commons passed parliament bill

Question 7

Outline the impact of the constitutional crisis

Answer 7

• Lords could only delay legislation important to the Commons
• Crisis divided conservatives - Balfour resigned 1911

Question 8

Positive position of women in the 19th century

Answer 8

• Increased education opportunities

Question 9

What obstacles in 1906 are in the way of getting the franchise for women

Answer 9

• Prime minister half-hearted in support for female suffrage
• parties unclear as to impact of female vote

Question 10

Pressure for female emancipation

Answer 10

1914 - national union of women’s suffrage societies - 500,000 members
- 1903 - emmeline Pankhurst - WSPU - became increasingly violent

Question 11

Outline the ‘cat and Mouse Act’ of 1913

Answer 11

• Suffragette refused to eat in prisons
• Force fed by police
• public outcry =Cat Mouse Act allowed release of strikers to regain strength + then rearrested

Question 12

what was the third home rule bill

Answer 12

• 1912 - Begun progress through parliament
• would give Ireland own Parliament

Question 12

Who was Emily Wildling Davison

Answer 12

• involved in Suffragette movement
• 1913 - threw herself under kings horse (Derby) in protest

Question 13

Opposition to the home rule

Answer 13

-conservatives long opposed home rule
argued it would break up british empire

Question 14

Who was Edward Carson

Answer 14

• Led Ulster Unionist resistance to home rule
• 1913 - formed an army , when home rule bill passed commons
• Irish nationalists responded by forming own militia - fear or irish civil war

Question 15

What were the reasons for industrial unrest

Answer 15

• 1912 - Cost of living 14% higher than 1906
  -Unions banded together= More power
• Fall in unemployment - Workers willing to confront employers

Question 16

Britain in 1914

Answer 16

• Supposedly on edge of Revolution
• Outbreak of war ended turbulence of conflict But did not solve problems