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22 Cards in this Set
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The shift that began in Great Britain in the 1760s from making goods by hand to making them by machine |
Industrial Revolution |
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an English playwright and poet during he late 16th and early 17th centuries |
William Shakespeare |
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The underwater railroad tunnel between France and England under the English Channel |
The Channel Tunnel |
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any of the Celtic family of languages spoken in Ireland or Scotland |
Gaelic |
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the official Church of England headed by the Archbishop of Canterbury |
The Church of England |
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The process of shifting some power from national to regional government |
Devolution |
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An agreement between Northern Ireland's unionists and nationalists that set up a new government |
Good Friday Agreement |
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A government in which the powers of a king/queen are limited by a constitution |
Constitutional monarchy |
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Relating to or including many different cultures |
multicultural |
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The queen of the United Kingdom from 1837 until 1901 |
Queen Victoria |
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the elected chamber of Parliament in the UK |
House of Commons |
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Upper House of Parliament in the UK, composed of appointed members (not elected), little real power |
House of Lords |
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3 Shakespeare plays |
Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Richard III, A Midsummer Nights Dream, Macbeth, The Tempest, Henry IV (Parts 1 and 2), Henry V, Merry Wives of Windsor, and Julius Caesar |
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3 Words Shakespeare invented |
bump, lonely, majestic, courtship, critic, dwindle, gnarled, hurry, blanket, champion, advertising, luggage, outbreak, monumental |
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3 important English authors |
Jane Austen, C. S. Lewis, Charles Dickens, J. R. R. Tolkien |
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Role of UK monarchy |
Not a leader of government; symbol of England; rules/acts w/Parliament's approval; ceremonial duties (formal dinners/appointing ambassadors) |
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Constitutional monarchy |
Has an unwritten constitution- made up of laws, court decisions, political customs; Parliament can change things as needed |
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Houses of Gov't |
Lords and Commons |
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House of Commons |
Prime minister is the leader- everyone asks them questions pertaining to gov't |
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3 English composers |
Sir Edward Elgar (Pomp and Circumstance); Ralph Vaughan Williams (The Lark Ascending); Benjamin Britten (War Requiem); George Frederick Handel (Zadok the Priest- Coronaion Anthem) |
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Channel Tunnel |
Goes under the English Channel; 31 miles long; connects Britain to France; used to be that the only way of getting from France to England was by boat (long time), now only 35 min. |
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Good Friday Agreement |
Dispute between nationalist Catholics (Ireland should be one country) and unionist Protestants (want Northern Ireland to be a part of the UK). Set up a new gov't in the Good Friday Agreement. Violence started up again (2002); are trying to make peace. |
