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The Liberal Reforms Flashcards

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How many private charities were there by 1905?

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700-800

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How many children did Dr Barnado rescue and how many lives did he improve?

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59,384 and 500,000

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What percentage of old people received relief?

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30-40%

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Life expectancy for man and women?

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47 for man 50 for women

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How many people could there be up to in one room?

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20

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How long were some of the sweated industry shifts?

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24 hour shifts

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What was happening by 1901?

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  • improved working conditions
  • all children had to go to school
  • Slum clearance schemes were underway
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What did the booths do?

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  • they went to the poor
  • 1878 there were 45 branches called salvation army
  • 1900/had its own training centre to help people find work e.g brickwork
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What did Charles Booth do and what did he discover?

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  • Decided to find out how much of Britain was living in poverty.
  • Investigated over 400 families
  • found out that 31% of Londoners were living in poverty
  • 85% of poverty was due to unemployment and low wages
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How much of York was in poverty?

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28%

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Who was John Galt and what did he show?

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Photographer and showed that majority worked hard but died due to low pay

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What were the causes of the Liberal Reforms?(industrial decline)

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-1900 USA and Germany took over UK in industrial production
-UK no longer richest nation
-Germany did this with their welfare scheme which created healthy and well educated work force
Lloyd thought if workers were healthier GB would rule again

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What were the causes of the Liberal Reforms?(Boer War)

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  • War showed that 50% of recruits were unfit due to not being fed properly
  • This showed GB’s position for being one of the strongest nations was threatened and the was European war looming round the corner
  • Changes for poor had to happen so they could protect themselves
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What were the causes of the Liberal Reforms?(Rise of Labour Party)

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  • Labour were calling for pensions, education and unemployment schemes
  • If Liberals did not offer the same thing then they feared they would lose votes
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When was free school meals set up and what did it introduce?

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1906

-158000 children fed at least once a day

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When was School medication inspections introduced and what did it do?

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1907

-Doctors and Nurses gave compulsory medical checks

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When was the pension act introduced and what did it do?

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1908/9

  • 1908 promised made
  • jan 1st 1909 first paid
  • Over 70’s entitled to 5s per week
  • married couples received 7s6d
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When was the national insurance act introduced and what did it do?

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1911

  • all workers with wage less than $160 had to join
  • workers paid 4d
  • if workers were sick the could claim 10s per week for 13 weeks
  • 10 million men and 4 million women covered
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when was Trade Boards act set up and what did it do?

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1909
created minimum wage for sweated industry.
-only 400,000 helped by this act

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When was National Insurance part 2 introduced and what did it do?

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Aimed to stop poverty caused by unemployment.

  • Workers, employers and government all paid 2d per week for a stamp.
  • if you collected enough stamps you could claim unemployment pay of 7s 6d a week
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The success of the Liberal Reforms?(Free School Meals)

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  • By 1914 over 14 million free school meals were given out

- 158000 children were given free meals

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The success of the Liberal Reforms?(National Insurance part 1)

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-poor people could survive ill health without starving

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The success of the Liberal Reforms?(Pension Act)?

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-650000 people claimed pensions in the first year

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The success of the Liberal Reforms?(National Insurance part 2)

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  • Helped unemployed back to work

- Protected unemployed

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The failure of Liberal Reforms?(Free School Meals)

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-only half of the authorities set up free school meals

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The failure of Liberal Reforms?(The Pensions Act)

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  • Massive tax burden on the rich

- Not many people lived to 70

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The failure of Liberal Reforms?(National Insurance part 1)

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  • Only helped poorest, low paid workers were not helped
  • Did not cover dependents
  • Widows did not receive pensions if man died
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The failure of Liberal Reforms?(National Insurance part 2)

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  • Only covered 2.25 million people/ mainly skilled workers

- The insurance wasnt enough for a working man and his family

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What was the Peoples Budget?

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  • Pay for pensions meant that an addition $16 million a year in governments revenue was needed.
  • Richer people had to pay higher tax (6d super tax)
  • Conservatives(who were represented the rich) had a majority of the seats in the House of Lords and said they would not pass the law
  • Lloyd George travelled the world making speeches in working class areas portrayed men were using their position to stop the old receiving their pensions.
  • Lloyd George finally put his budget through to parliament
  • Lords were no longer allowed to prevent the passage of money bills.
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Who supported Labour and what were their beliefs?

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  • Workers/poor
  • Equal society where richer taxed to support the poor
  • Though Liberal Reforms needed to do more e.g lower ages for pensions
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Who supported the Liberals and what were their beliefs?

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  • People from all classes

- provide framework to help poor but without upsetting rich

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Who supported the conservatives and what did they believe?

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  • Punch magazine/Times/Rich and landowners
  • not to interfere with the economy let people look after themselves
  • protect money for the rich
  • Thought reforms were taxing too much
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Why did some people oppose reforms?

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  • some doctors/ did not like free medical care as they thought they would lose money from private health care
  • Conservatives/ believed the UK would turn into a nanny state/ many believed in Lazzies Faire
  • Workers hated that they had to provide for National Insurance as this money was essential to them to by bread
  • Labour/ Criticised reforms for not doing enough but believed it was a step in the right directions. Though ages for pensions should be set lower

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