Wh Ch 20 Flashcards
victoria’s resolution
“I will be good”
the first world’s fair
Great Exhibition
was called the prince consort.
Prince Albert
the right to vote
suffrage
allowed suffrage in England
Reform Bill of 1832.
represented the nobility and other wealthy people.
conservatives
“The Grand Old Man,” was known as a deeply religious man and a great orator. He was responsible for much political and social reform during his several terms as prime minister. It was said of him that during his lifetime “he was the one statesman to whom oppressed peoples turned in hope.”
William Gladstone
the renowned leader of the Conservative party
Benjamin Disraeli
The greatest preacher of the Victorian Era, “Prince of Preachers,”
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
wrote several devotional studies of Bible characters that revealed keen insight into practical Christian living.
F.B. Meyer
Moody’s song leader
Ira Sankey
had a tremendous influence upon the people of Victorian Britain. In addition to his successful ministry in America, he traveled to Britain in 1873, 1881, and 1891 to preach the gospel.
Dwight L.
Moody
, a famous cricket player who spent his life as a missionary to China, India, and Africa
C.T. Studd
worked with the people of Labrador and Newfoundland
Wilfred Grenfell
The greatest of all British missionaries in China
J. Hudson Taylor
what mission did J. Hudson Taylor establish
China Inland Mission
aided by Chinese government authorities, destroyed property belonging to Westerners and killed over 200 people, many of whom were American and European missionaries
Boxer rebellion
convinced Japan to sign the treaty for trade and diplomatic relations with the United States. The treaty did not permit missionaries to enter Japan, but it did help unlock the closed door.
Commodore Matthew Perry
the first diplomatic representative that America sent to Japan.
Townsend Harris
permitted missionaries to enter Japan
Treaty of Amity and Commerce
when was the Treaty of Amity and Commerce signed
1858
he first Baptist missionary to Japan
Jonathan Goble
what invention did Johnathan gobble create
rickshaw
The most famous of all Japanese Christians
Neesima
One of England’s most famous humanitarians
George Muller
his ministry became known as the Salvation Army.
William booth
a place where young men in England could stay temporarily, get meals, and enjoy Bible study, recreation, and good Christian fellowship
YMCA
compensated for the lack of qualified teachers by training older children to help teach the younger children.
monitorial schools,
single-handedly created the modern nursing profession
Florence Nightingale
the 3 g’s of economics in Britain
“gold, God, and glory.”
strategic negotiation between nations)
diplomacy
Britain joined France and Sardinia to stop Russia’s attempt to assert its dominance over Turkey and seize portions of Turkish territory, a move which also endangered British interests in the Middle East
Crimean War
England’s chief North American possession in the 18th/19th century
Canada
Queen Victoria sent who to investigate conditions in Canada,
Lord Durham
made Canada a self-governing commonwealth (
British North American Act
a powerful trade company which was not officially connected with the government
East India Company
the rebellion of India to England
Rebellion
wrested away the last vestiges of political authority from the East India Company and gave full political control of India to the British government
India Act
was responsible for the translation of the Bible into over 40 Indian languages and dialects. He also wrote grammar books for eight of these tongues, encouraged Indian education, helped the Indians improve their agricultural methods
William Carey
forcing widows to hurl themselves upon their husbands’ funeral fires)
suttee
worked for years to rescue young Indian girls from a life of prostitution in the pagan temples and to bring them to Christ.
Amy Carmichael
the most famous of the explorers of Africa
David Livingston
Africa’s largest waterfall
Victoria Falls,
man that went to Africa and wrote back to Britain for months
David Livingston
Man sent to find David Livingston
Henry Stanley
helped many former slaves to colonize Freetown in Sierra Leone, and the Church Missionary Society established two Christian schools there for the evangelization and education of Africans.
Granville Sharp
the first black bishop of the Church of England
Samuel Adjai Crowther
the most unique of all the African states
Liberia
the first independent African republic
Liberia
Capital of Liberia
Monrovia
The first Christian missionaries
to Liberia
Lott Carey and Colin Teague
the most famous was Liberian evangelist
William Harris
Farmers in Africa that fought England
Boers
British prime minster of the Cape Colony, began antagonizing the Boer republics by inciting the Uitlanders to rebellion as part of a scheme to potentially unite much of Africa under British rule.
Cecil Rhodes
War in which the British fought African farmers for gold
Boer War
leaders of the Boers
Paul Kruger and Louis Botha
in what year was the Union of South Africa made
1910
Australia became an independent commonwealth with its own parliamentary government in what year
1901
natives of N.Z.
Maoris
England colonized and took control of new Zealand in what year
1840
what year did new Zealand become independant
1907
an association of nations acknowledging the British monarch as their symbolic head
British Commonwealth of Nations,
remained apart of eng.
Northern Ireland
popularized the theory of evolution in 1859: widely accepted in England by the 1900’s
Charles Darwin
government control of the nation’s resources and finances; “the greatest happiness for the greatest number”
Socialism
Also called religious liberalism
The false teaching that the Bible is not God’s Word but stories & myths
Modernism
