Modern English History Midterm

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Eastern Question

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the debate on what to do with the fall of the Ottoman Empire.

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J.A. Hobson

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Economist, Lecturer and Writer

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Elw

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Cecil Rhodes

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Businessman, South African politican and founder of DeBeers. Used british imperial policies to rule SA. Supporter of Liberal Party.

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Beatrice Webb

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ociologist, economist, socialist and reformer

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Robert Lowe

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Opponent of Reform Bill of 1867. Albino, Hated Austrialians, he believed they characterized the worker.

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Christabel Pankhurts

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Womans rights activist. Arrested during liberal party meeting for yelling. The Suffragette

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Gen. Charles Gordon

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Protected China 1850-1860's

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_George_Gordon

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My Secret Life

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My Secret Life, by "Walter", is a lengthy sexual memoir of a Victorian gentleman first printed in a private edition of eleven volumes, over seven years beginning around 1888. Unknown author, very graphic, sexual

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Secret_Life

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Taff-Vale Decision

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suit brought by the Taff Vale Railway Company against the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants (ASRS) in which the courts held that a union could be sued for damages caused by the actions of its officials in industrial disputes. Opposition to the decision did much to spur the growth of the nascent British Labour Party.

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Fabians

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a intellectual socialist movement, whose purpose is to advance the principles of Social democracy via gradualist and reformist, rather than revolutionary means. Peaceful, Socialist. Important Members: Karl Marx, Fidel Castro, JM Keynes

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John Bright**

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British Radical and Liberal statesman. Supported expansion

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Lord John Russell

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an English Whig and Liberal politician who served twice as Prime Minister. 1846-52; 65-66.

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Keir Hardy

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Scottish socialist and labour leader. Founder of Labour Party. He felt Gladstones economic policies wouldn't ever adequately represent the working classes

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John Stuart Mill **

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LIBERAL. Big on Utilitarianism.

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Educational Act of 1870

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First act dealing with primary education

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Sir Edward Carson**

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leader of the Ulster Unionist Party.

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Captain Boycott

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Word created for him. Worked for agraian Irish tenants rights in 1880.

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University Tests Act

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Passed during the course of William Gladstone's first ministry, the act was to obtain support from the non-conformists since these were a major support group for the Liberal party. Furthermore, its purpose generally was to remove another aspect of religious inequality.[1]The University Tests Act of 1871 abolished the communion "Tests" and allowed non-conformists to take up fellowships at the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Durham.

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Virginia Woolf

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novelist and essayist. Member of Bloomsberry

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W.E. Forster

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Liberal Party.became a prominent advocate of imperial federation. In 1866, his attitude on parliamentary reform attracted a good deal of attention.

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Merrie England

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an influential collection of essays on socialism by Robert Blatchford, published in 1893. It sold over two million copies

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3 F’s

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series of demands first issued by the Tenant Right League in their campaign for land reform in Ireland from the 1850s. They were
Fair rent
Free sale
Fixity of tenure

The Three Fs were campaigned for by a number of political movements, notably the Independent Irish Party and later the Irish Parliamentary Party during the Land War. They were conceded by the British Government in a series of Irish Land Acts enacted from the 1870s

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Joseph Chamberlain

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radically minded Liberal Party. Led tarriff reform campaign. Atheist.1880-1885- President of the board of trade.

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Lord Randolph Churchill

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Father of PM Winston Churchill. Conservative. Created "Tory Democracy" 1885.

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Charles Stuart Parnell

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Irish land owner and land reformist. Founded Irish Parlimentary party

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Lord Salisbury

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PM 3x's. 1885-86.86-92,1895-1902. Conservative. After disralei death, becomes leader of the HOL. 1881

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Algernon Swinburne***

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English Poet. Critizided for rhyme and vocab. arguably englands best poet.

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H. M. Hyndman

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founder of the Social Democratic Federation and the National Socialist Party.

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“permeation”

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promoting fabian ideals through personal influence among MP's and other officials and getting more symathetic men in local govt.- Sidney Webb

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T.E. Lawrence

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soldier renowned especially for his communication role during the Arab Revolt of 1916–18. Seven Pillars Of Wisdom

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H. H. Asquith

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PM 1908-1916. Liberal. Home sec. for gladstone. reformed social welfare. WW1 PM.

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Boers

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South African farmers. Their primary motivation for leaving the Cape was to escape British rule as well as the constant border wars between the British imperial government and the native tribes on the eastern frontier.

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G.E. Moore

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in his 1903 book Principia Ethica. Moore stated that a naturalistic fallacy was committed whenever a philosopher attempts to prove a claim about ethics by appealing to a definition of the term "good" in terms of one or more natural properties

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Ramsay MacDonald

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2x PM. 1929-31;1931-1935. First Labour PM. Expelled from LP, accused of betrayal. bad health, resigned. died 1937.

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Labour Representation Committee

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1906 they moved from a committee to an independent party

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Reform bill of 1867

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moved outsiders to insiders. Brought the working class in.
Marx was wrong when he thought everyone only voted economically. They voted for social issues.