start to end of liberal crisis

Question 1

pre 1906

Answer 1

-boer war 1901
*over south africa
*engkland vs dutch farmers
*joesph chamberlein
*160,00 women and chikldren taken to concentration camps
*boers sureended may 1902
-taff vale case aug 1900
*john newington
-stomach taxes may 15th 1903
*chamberlien
*whole hoggers, free fooders
*churchill went liberal
-23rd jan 1901 queen victoria died
*63 year reign
-rolls royce 1904
-1903 only 3 women vets

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Question 2

1906 election

Answer 2

-401 liberal seats to 157 conservatives
-balfour resigned so election called
-reasons for the loss
*1902 education act (people not sure where tax is going)
*chinese labour issue (didnt try to stop it)
*boer war (40% decalred unfit)
*lib lab pact (1903)
*lisenscing act (1904 ‘brewers bill’)
*neglect of social reform
*poor conservative leadership
*taff vale case

Question 3

new liberlaism

Answer 3

-gladstonian liberalism
-factors that led to nl
*roundtree and booths investiagtions
*discovery that poverty wasnt caused by idleness
*could keep working class voters not going to labour
*concern over national effirciancy

Question 4

the constitutional crisis

Answer 4

-1909 to 1911
-to pass all their welfare acts herbert asquith and david lloyd geroge have to pass people budget act
-house of lords refused
-they also refused the parliament act
-the king said they have to do an election (jan 1910) liberals won due to irish nationalists
-another election in dec 1910 for parliament act (lords cant veto money bills and cant veto bill for 2+ yrs)
-king said house of lords can either pass the parliement act or have half and half liberal and conservative lords

Question 5

the economy 1906-14

Answer 5

-failures
*90% of dyes imported in 1913
*uk firms didnt have the organisation or techinques for mass production
*uk behind in science eduacation 1908 less than 300 students doing science
*1914 only 1/4 weat from british farms
*1913 german chemical industry was 3x the size
* didnt invest in new indutries ( iro production 8% vs us 25%)
* used to be workshop of the world
-sucesses
*25% world trade
*30% goods sold abroad
*until 1914 still key ship building nation
*world leader in banking 32% of weath from oversees investement in 1932
*staple industried did 60% exports
*coal output risen from 100 mil tons to 287 mill in 1913
-new industries
-staple industries

Question 6

welfare reforms

Answer 6

-children
*1907 education act (school medical services, 1914 3/4 of leas providing medical inspections)
*1906 education act( school meals, 1914 14 mill given annualy, on 1/2 leas doing it)
*1906 childrens act (neglact illegal, juvanile prisons, illegal to sell tabbaco and achol)
- elderly
*1908 old age pensions act (5 shilling a week or 7s and 6d for married couples, only for over 70s and had worked and good charcter, funded by taxes)
-workers
*1909 trade boards (min wage set up in certain trade, every trade in 1999)
*1906 workmens compensation act (only for workers earning less than £250)
*1908+11 coal mines act (fixed 8hrs per day)
*labour exchanges set up (by 1914 2 mill workers found jobs, 3,000 jobs a day found, only 1/4 found a job)
*1911 national insurence/ unemplpyement act (paid into weekly, covered 2.25 mill ppl, 7 shillings for 15 weeks but only for certain trades)
*merchant shipping act (improved food and accomidation)
*1911 natioanl insurence/ sickness act (paid into weekly, 10 shillings a week for 13 weeks, then 5 shillings, included free treatemtn for tb and maternity grant and disiblity benfit)
*1911 shops act (weekly half day holiday, may have to make up hours)

Question 7

womans sufferage

Answer 7

-1897 millicent fawcett set up ntional union of womens sufferage, had 50,000 members in 1914
-1903 emmiline pankhurst set up womens socical and politcal union
-1905 winstons speech interupted and pankhurst and kenney spat at police
-1907 ralley in hyde park
-1905 asquith rejects the bill on womens sufferage
-1909 first hunger strike by marrion wallace- dunlop
-1910 black friday
-1912 150 suffergettes smash windows at downing street and white hall with toffe hammers
-1913 prisoners discharged act (cat and mouse act)
-1914 emily wilding davison hit by kings horse

Question 8

industrial unrest

Answer 8

-reasons
*1906 trade disputes act meant trade unions werent liabale for loss of costs from strikes
*strikes seen as a more direct way of change
*gap of poor and rich windening

Question 9

tanypandy riots

Answer 9

-miners striking in 1910 as on sept 1st ely pit in penygraig shut out 950 miners after disagreeing of extraction coal rate
-riot in tonypandy square, cardiff on 8th nov cuased police to want military
-misscommuniaction meant the miliraty was called on the pontypridd riot in rhondda valley the next day
-minners forced to accept the 2s and 3ds a day offered as a wage, tripple alliance

Question 10

the seige of sidney street

Answer 10

-jan 1911
-robery in a jewlwerry shop where the robbers fierd on police
-police at the house and heard shooting
-churchill deployed troops
-house caught fire and churchill refused to put out the flames
-2 men dead in house who werent the criminals

Question 11

Ireland pre- course

Answer 11

-1800 the act of uninion
•abolished irelands separate parliament
•creates United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
-Anglian church established as the official state church in Ireland until 1869
-1845-51 potatoe blight
•1 mill died of starvation
-to kill the homerule with kindness
•loans for tennants to buy out the farms
-Irish republican brother hood
-scandal of Charles Parnell

Question 12

Ulster covenant

Answer 12

-by Edward Carson
-1912
-protesting against the 3rd home rule bill
-signed in own blood
- in 1914 the supporters smuggled 30,000 rifles and 3 mill rounds of amp to the port of larne

Question 13

Curragh mutiny

Answer 13

-March 1914
-1905 Sinn Fein signed wanting home rule
-British soldiers at the Curragh mutiny threatened to resign instead of supporting the Irish volunteers who wanted home rule
-ended by ww1