Chapter 20 Flashcards by Mega Mind

who was rapidly becoming the leading world power in the nineteenth century

England

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the most outstanding British leader at the beginning of the nineteenth century

William Pitt the Younger

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Britain’s esteemed hero of the napoleonic wars; another great leader of the 19th century in Britain

Duke of Wellington

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another important 19th century British leader who served int he Parliament, the cabinet, and two terms as Prime Minister; also give what he established

Sir Robert Peel

est. the London Metropolis Police Force - aka bobbies/peelers

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give three influential men of Britain in the nineteenth century

William Pitt the Younger
Duke of Wellington
Sir Robert Peel

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what was said about the British Empire when is included 1/4 of the globe and 1/4 of total population

“the sun never sets on the British Empire”

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the longest ruling monarch in English history - give the length of the reign and the famous quote of this monarch

Victoria
64 years
“I will be good” - and she was! She earned back the respect of the English people for the monarchy

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the first world’s fair held in 1851; used to display Britain’s scientific, industrial, and cultural achievements

Great Exhibition

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aka the prince consort; married Victoria in 1840 and was influential in English politics

Prince Albert of Germany

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bill passed in _______ that granted suffrage to middle class males

the Reform Bill of 1832

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the right to vote

suffrage

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compare liberals and conservatives in Britain during the nineteenth century; also give the leaders of each party during this time

liberals - represented the middle class of the industrial age and wanted reform to grant more rights/liberties to more people; led by “the Grand old Man” William Gladstone

conservatives - represented the nobility/wealthy people; opposed change and hesitated to grant more political power; lead by Benjamin Disraeli

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the greatest preacher of the victorian era; aka the Prince of Preachers who is considered to be one of the greatest preachers of modern times; preached in London’s largest church for nearly 40 years

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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another popular preacher pf the victorian era; an Englishman who was in great demand because of hi sBible teaching skills and convention speaking skills; he also wrote several Bible study devotionals about Bible characters

F.B Meyers

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the great American evangelist who also had a tremendous effect on victorian Britain as well as America; name his son leader who accompanied him on his preaching tour of the UK

D.L Moody
Ira Sankey

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give the two men who were influenced by Moody to serve on foreign mission fields and a brief description of their work

C T Studd- a famous cricket player who spent his life as a missionary in China, India, and Africa

Wilfred Grenfell - worked with the people of Newfoundland and labrador

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what has the nineteenth century also been called because of the missionaries

the Great Century of Missions

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two presbyterian pioneers in china; list some of their accomplishments

Robert Morrison - wrote a Chinese dictionary and translated the Bible into Chinese, paving the way for other missionaries

William Burns

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the greatest of all British missionaries in China who was a methodist physician-preacher; list his greatest accomplishments and what he is remembered for

j. Hudson Taylor

founded the China Inland Mission and is remembered for his determination to depend on God alone

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the event where 200+ people, mostly Euro and American missionaries, were killed and westerner’s property was destroyed in Chine - give the men behind this event and why they caused it. What happened in the decade following this event?

The Boxer Rebellion

Chinese terrorist group, the Boxers, were aided by Chinese government authorities who wanted to attach all foreign influences in China;

missionary work prospered like never before in China

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the US naval officer who convinced Japan to sign a treaty for trade and diplomatic relations with the US; this did not allow missionaries but unlocked the closed door

Commodore Matthew Perry

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who opened Japan to Christian missionaries and how? He was the first diplomatic representative sent to Japan by America

Harris Townsend; persuaded the Japs to sign the Treaty of Amity and Commerce in 1858

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the first baptist missionary to Japan

Johnathan Goble

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who invented ________, a famous Japanese mode of transportation and why?

rickshaw
by Johnathan Goble when his wife was stuck with a severe illness and became unable to walk

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one of Englands most famous humanitarians; he was a Germany missionary to England for the British jews; he is remembered for being a man of prayer and great faith as well as his orphanage work

George Müller

the methodist evangelist who began a mission in London's darkest slums; give what his ministry became known as

William Booth Salvation Army

the most famous Japanese Christian who became one of the first people to take the gospel message to Japan's interior

Neesima

improved the conditions for children, laborers, and the mentally handicapped in 19th century Britain

Lord Ashley

an organization formed in the nineteenth century whose purpose was the improve the spiritual condition of young men

YMCA - young mens christian association

how were most of Britain's schools run until the 20th century

by Christian organizations

schools which compensated for the lack of qualified teachers by training older kids to help teach younger kids

monitory schools

she single-handedly created the modern nursing profession

Florence Nightingale

when was the great age of British Imperialism? Give the three reasons the brits wanted to expand

1880-1900 gold, God, glory

what act made Canada a self governing commonwealth

British North America Act of 1867

What tool did British use to settle India? What caused the Sepoy Rebellion, and what was the result? How did India benefit from British rule?

East India Co. rebellion caused by native soldiers who would rather rebel that violate their religion; British takeover of India completely and east India company defeated Christianity, humanity, education, literature, language, modern conveniences

war in which Britain allied with France and Sardinia to stop Russia's attempt to overtake some of turkey's territory; give the result of this war

Crimean War; Ally victory but with heavy casualties

strategic negotiation between nations; how Britain acquired most of her empire

diplomacy

he was sent by Queen Victoria to investigate and solve Canada's turmoil; also give the three solutions he came up with

Lord Durham; 1.reunite Canada 2.est. a representative gov, here 3.follow a plan for settlement of unoccupied territories

the Irish missionary to India who worked for years to save young girls from prostitution and bring them to Christ

Amy Carmichael

a famous missionary to India after the India Act

William Carey

The act passed by Parliament in 1858 that gave full political control of India to the British government and named Queen Victoria as empress of India

India Act

give the battle and the year that gave the east India company control over nearly all of India

1757 Battle of Plassey

the pagan practice of forcing widows to hurl themselves into their husband's funeral fires in India; missionaries did much to discourage this

suttee

how did missionaries help in developing Africa?

Established schools, churches, and hospitals; Helped eradicate slave trade and tribal wars; brought the Word of God to Africa

what country was the first independent African republic? Who were the first two missionaries to that country?

Liberia; Lott Carey and Colin Teagues

What 2 republics were established by the Boers following the Great Trek? Briefly describe the reasons for the great trek.

Orange Free State; Transvaal; British settlers came in an took over the cape area so Boers packed up and went farther north in protest

why was the Suez Canal important to England?

it brought goods through the canal shortcut to England - and England is a small country that depends on imported goods

give the dates and outcome of the Boer war. When was the union of South Africa formed and how?

1899-1902; formed in 1910 between the British and the boers as a dominion with a representative government in the tradition of Great Britain

the Christian African tribal chief you was saved in his youth and resolved to rule his territory in righteousness

Khama

Afrikaner farmers who farmed and raised cattle

Boers

the British prime minister of the Cape Colony who began antagonizing the boer republics by inciting the uitlanders to rebellion as a part of a scheme to unite much of Africa under british rule

Cecil Rhodes

give 1. president of transvaal and 2. the daring Afrikaner general who together led the boers in the Boer war

Paul Kruger; Louis Botha

name the four early explorers supplied by presbyterian Scotland and briefly describe their accomplishments

1. James Bruce - explored source of the Blue Nile 2. Mungo Park - traced most of the Niger River 3. Hugh Clapperton -first European to cross the Sahara Desert and also discovered Lake Chad 4. Alexander Laing - first European to reach the trading post of Timbuktu

the most famous of the explorers of Africa; was a Scottish missionary explorer who also discovered Victoria Falls

David Livingstone

Africa's largest waterfall

Victoria Falls

the young American journalist who found Livingstone after all news of Livingstone stopped abruptly

Henry Stanley

the great British philanthropist who helped many former slaves colonize _________ in Sierra Leone

Granville Sharp Freetown

the first black bishop of the Church of England

Samuel Adjai Crowther

the capital of Liberia

Monrovia

the most famous Liberian evangelist who began his ministry when he was sixty

William Harris

the original Australian inhabitants

aborigines

what event made colonization/population go up by 800% in Australia

Australian Gold Rush of 1851

when did Australia become an independent commonwealth with its own parliamentary government

1901

the natives of New Zealand who cried out to Britain for help after whalers/seaman were making a bad influence on them; they cried out to Britain to maintain order and sanity

maoris

when did New Zealand become an independent commonwealth with its own parliamentary gov. like Australia

1907

an association of nations acknowledging the British monarch as their symbolic head; includes Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and dozens of other former colonies

British commonwealth of Nations

what was the key issue preventing peace between England and Ireland

religion

what act in 1800 was passed by parliament to officially unite England and Ireland

act of union

what act was passed by parliament in 1829 that allowed Irish catholics to vote and sit in parliament

catholic emancipation act

which event made Ireland's grievances against England even more acute; give a general time this happened in

Irish potato famine in the 1840s

which province of Ireland contained six counties who'd id not want to separate from England; give what they eventually became known as

ulster - Northern Ireland

what did the other 26 counties of Ireland become known as when they were a British commonwealth; give the year and the new name fore Ireland when they became fully independent of Britain

Irish free state 1949 - Republic of Ireland

who succeeded Victoria? briefly describe his rule.

Edward VII - did not share his mothers resolution to be good and started the decline of Britain

what British naturalist wrote the Origin of Species? Name and explain the philosophy proposed by this book

Charles Darwin; darwinism aka evolution - replace God with time, natural processes, and chance

what is the system in which the government controls/owns a nations economy

socialism

who was the most famous christian socialists? Name the founders and goals of the fabian society

Charles Kingsley George Bernard Shaw and Beatrice + Sidney Webb; socialism should be achieved through a series of reforms gradually

explain how modernism cut to the very heart of everything that made Britain so great

it taught that the Bible was merely a beautiful myth full of errors INSTEAD OF the correct and strong foundation that the Bible is the holy Word of God and absolutely true

the British scientists who vigorously promoted darwinism and coined the term agnostic

Thomas Henry Huxley

describes one who believes in God's existence and anything but material reality cannot be proved by humans and is therefore not an important area of human inquiry

agnostic

the idea that matter is the only reality and that everything in the world including thought/will/feeling must be explained in terms of matter

materialism

socialist organization in Britain who wanted benevolent social reform but did not take the Bible literally

christian socialists

organization of laborers who wanted immediate voting rights for all men

chartists

an early group of British socialists I the nineteenth century who believed that life's goal is " the greatest happiness for the greatest number" regardless of any means or consequences

utilitarians

Chapter 20 Flashcards

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