Great Britain

Question 1

What were the two major political parties in Great Britain?

Answer 1

conservative and liberal

Question 2

Who was Lord Derby?

Answer 2

-conservative
-prime minister,
more interested in horse racing, card playing, and gambling

Question 3

Who was Benjamin Disraeli?

Answer 3

chancellor of exchequer under lord derby. launched the reform act of 1867; would later become prime minister of the conservative party

Question 4

What was the reform act of 1867?

Answer 4

• Disraeli was the one who guided it to its passage
• gave the right to vote for city working men
• acceptance of democracy
• first beneficiary was the liberal part

Question 5

Who is William Gladstone?

Answer 5

-liberal prime minister
-glorious ministry
-passed the elementary education act, secret ballot act

Question 6

Who was Lord Salisbury?

Answer 6

-created New imperialism European states to expand territorial holdings and expand into new states to claim as theirs
- said that was european dominance was needed to modernize backward people
- would expand in Africa which would cause conflict with France
- France would back down and allow Britain to obtain Africa

Question 7

what is the elementary education act of 1870?

Answer 7

• for the first time in british, a national system of education was established
  
  • elementary schools were put in reach of the children
• establishment of government inspectors
  
  • made sure schools were incompliance of with the government rules

Question 8

what was the secret ballot act?

Answer 8

• Open Ballot, anyone would see how you were voting
  
  • encourage bribery and intimidation
• ended the problems
• can vote secretly
• reduce corruption in british politics

Question 9

What was the liberal triumph?

Answer 9

the liberal wining the presidential campaign in 1906

Question 10

What did the house of lord often do?

Answer 10

absolute veto: meaning the bill wast often licked off

Question 11

Who was Herbert Asquith?

Answer 11

prime minister of the liberal party that was given the name sledgehammer due to being a good debater

Question 12

Who was David Lloyd?

Answer 12

-chancellor of the exchequer
-introduced the “people’s budget” & parliament act of 1911

Question 13

what is the people’s budget?

Answer 13

• introduced a graduated income tax
• passed the house of commons, but was vetoed in the house of lords
  
  • this was in violation of the british constitution
• became a national point in national elections of 1910
  
  • the liberals would ended up winning for continued change
  • conservative would eventually accept the people’s budget

Question 14

What was the parliament act of 1911?

Answer 14

• reduced the power of house of lords to a ceremonial function
• asked the house of lord’s toreplace absolute veto with a suspension of veto
  
  • would slow done but could not kill it for two years
  • financial measures would become law after one month
• confirmed the supremacy of the house of commons in affairs of national government

Question 15

What was the militant women’s movement?

Answer 15

• demanded the right to vote for women
• “votes for women”
• they were the called the suffragettes

Question 16

Who was Emmeline Pankhurst?

Answer 16

head of the women’s social and political union

Question 17

What was the labor militancy?

Answer 17

• trade/worker unions that were demanding greater protection and increase and salary
• climax when the most three powerful union came together to form the Triple industrial alliance
  
  • railroad men, transport men, & coal miners
  • had talks of a strike, which would result in a stop of british economy

Question 18

What is the Irish Home Rule?

Answer 18

• Gladstone has lost his job for favoring Ireland having its own rule
• Britian had previously said they would stop discrimination against Ireland
  
  • Ireland could send irish catholics to parliament
  • Acts of Union in 1800 agreed on both sides of British and Ireland
    
    • British did not go through with catholic emancipation

Question 19

What was the Home Rule Bill?

Answer 19

• passed in the house of commons which would provide Ireland their own parliament
  
  • House of Lords exercised suspension veto

Question 20

What was the outbreak of World War I?

Answer 20

Britain would be on the brink of civil war but World War I would occur, Britain alongside France, Russia would enter the war as a triple entre against the central powers in europe (Germany, Austria, and Hungary)