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who was the prime minister during the french revolution / Napoleonic wars
- aka the most outstanding
British leader at the
beginning of the 19th century

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william Pitt the younger

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esteemed hero of the Napoleonic Wars - also prime minister

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duke of Wellington

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prime minister who was the founder of the police

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sir Robert peel

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england’s longest reigning monarch

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queen Victoria

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what monarch changed the people’s views from disdain to respect

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Queen Victoria

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what was Queen Victoria’s resolution for her 64 year reign

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“be good”

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what was the catchphrase of England in the Victorian age ?

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“the sun never sets on the British empire”

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the first world fair

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great exhibition of 1851

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who married queen Victoria

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prince Albert

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called the prince consort

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prince albert

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right to vote

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suffrage

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granted to the middle class men suffrage

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reform bill of 1832

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of the two party’s who was the middle class

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the liberals

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known as the grand old man

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William gladstone

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made up of the nobility and other wealthy people

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conservatives

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leader of conservatives

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Benjamin Disraeli (dizzy)

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greatest Victorian preacher

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Charles spurgeon

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known as prince of preachers

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Charles spurgeon

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Known for Bible character devotions

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F.B. Meyer

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what “raised them” that we are to take and raise ourselves”

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the Bible

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biggest most important Chinese missionary

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Hudson Taylor

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Chinese dictionary and Bible

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Robert Morrison

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formed salvation army

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William booth

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known for his evangelism in America

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Dwight L Moody

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the song leader who joined moody
Ira Sankey
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what century was known as the great century of missions
19th
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founder of the China Inland Mission
J Hudson Taylor
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aided by Chinese government authorities, destroyed property belonging to Westerners and killed over 200 people (many were missionaries)
Boxer Rebellion
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the first diplomatic representative that america sent to japan
townsend harris
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in 1858 what permitted missionaries to enter japan?
treaty of amity and commerce (also called the townsend harris treaty)
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first baptist missionary to Japan
Jonathan Goble
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most famous Japanese Christian
Neesima
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known for his orphanages
george Muller
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est in england to meet the needs and spiritual condition of young men
YMCA
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conditions for children, laborers, and mentally handicapped were improved by who?
Lord Ashley
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single handedly created the modern nursing profession
Florence Nightingale
28
what was 1880-1900 called
the great age of british empirialism
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3 reasons why Great Britain expanded her empire
Gold,God,Glory
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strategic negotiation between nations
diplomacy
31
britain joined france and sardinia to stop russias attempt to assert its dominance over turkey
crimean war
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england’s chief north american possession
canada
33
made canada a self governing commonwealth
british north america act
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a tool of the british settlement which was a powerful trade company which was not connected with the government
east india company
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believing that the british officers had little respect for their religious beliefs, the native indian troops rebelled rather than violate their religion
sepoy rebellion
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wrested away the last vestiges of political authority from the East India Co and gave it to the British govt
india act
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responsible for the translation of the bible into 40 indian languages and dialects - also wrote grammar books
william carey
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rescued young indian girls from prostitution
amy carmichael
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most famous explorer of Africa
David Livingstone
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africas largest waterfall
victoria falls
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a young reporter sent to find david livingstone
henry stanley
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The first black Bishop of the Church of England
Samuel Adjai, Crowther
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first independent, African republic
Liberia
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name for the African farmers
Boers
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When thousands of boers left resenting the British government and wanting to govern themselves What did they start?
the great trek
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once the Bowers left on the great track, they established what two new republics?
transvaal and the orange free state
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in 1910, the Boers and the British joined together to form what
union of south africa
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connects the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea and was valuable for trade
The Suez canal
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The original inhabitants of Australia
Aborigines
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The Inhabitant of New Zealand
maoris
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an association of nations acknowledging the british empire as their symbolic head
The british commonwealth of nations
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after Victoria died who ascended to the throne
edward VII
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who proposed evolution
charles darwin
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who coined the term agnostic
thomas henry huxley
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the idea that matter is the only reality and that everything in the world, including thought, will, and feeling, must be explained in terms of matter.
materialism
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the idea that government should own or at least control a nation’s economy (including its businesses, factories, and other means of pro-duction) in order to provide for the needs of the people.
socialism
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a group who wanted benevolent social reform but did not want to take the Bible literally
christian socialist
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a philosophy which cut to the very heart of all that had made Britain great.- believed that the Bible was merely a beautiful myth and full of errors.
modernism
58
what is when a nation creates different colonies for itself
imperialism
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another name for evolution (named for the person who came up with it)
darwinism
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what was Africa named because of how unexplored it was
dark continent
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father of African missions
lott Carey
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who explored Australia
captain James cook
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the British prime minister 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
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the war between the boer colonies and the bristish (the bristish won)
boer war
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sent by queen Victoria to investigate Canada
Lord Durham

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