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Chapter 20 History PCS
Rise and fall of the Victorian Era
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History
10th Grade
02/06/2013

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How many years did Queen Victoria rule?
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64
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Who replaced Queen Victoria?
Definition
her son, Edward VII
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Who was Queen Victoria's husband?
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Prince Albert
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What were the five reforms of the Victorian Era?
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1- Popular Education
2-Art Development
3-Popular Participation in Politics
4-New Inventions
5- Extension of Modern Science
Term
The century of British Peace was known as what?
Definition
Pax Brittanica
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What was the first world fair called?
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The Great Exhibition
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Where was the Great Exhibition and who hosted it?
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Crystal Palace; prince Albert
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Who was one of the most famous preachers of the Victorian era?
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Charles Spargen
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Who discovered and named Victorian falls?
Definition
David Livingstone
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Who lead the liberal part in England? The conservative?
Definition
Gladstone, Disraeli
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What did David Livingstone do in Africa?
Definition
brought the gospel as a missionary and brought protection and explored
Term
Who was the first protestant missionary in china?
Definition
Robert Morisson
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Which act granted Canada independence and who proposed it?
Definition
The British North America Act, Durham
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who was known as lady of the lamp?
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Florence Nightingale
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which company tried to stop interest in india until the british took control?
Definition
The East India Company
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what were the three main religions when in india when Britain took over?
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Buddhist, Islam, Hindu
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Which Portugese explorer traveled around Africa to india?
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Dagama
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what was the idian uprising against the british east india trading company called?
Definition
Sepoy Rebellion
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what was the practice of a woman throwing herself on her husbands funeral pyre called?
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sutee
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what Buddhist belief slowed technological progress?
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animism
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how did the hindu belief of recarnation effect india?
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people would not animals who may be ancestors causing great poverty
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What wer dutch settlers who lived in south Africa called?
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Boers
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What were the two new boer states called?
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Transvaal, Orange Free State
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what was the war between the british and the sutch African farmers called?
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Boer war
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What did England desire control of in Egypt?
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suez canal
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who conquered china and isolated it from the rest of the world?
Definition
Kublaikhan
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Who started China Inland Mission?
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Jay Huson Taylor
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what war was fought in china to repel western influence?
Definition
boxer rebellion
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what british city was returned to china?
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Hong Kong
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Who discovered Australia?
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Captain Cook
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What island nation was visited by whalers and colonized by Britain?
Definition
new zealand
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who disestablished the Anglican church in Ireland?
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Gladstone
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What act joined England and Ireland?
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act of union
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what increased irish representation in politics?
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great reform act
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what was important about the Victorian period?
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England had a time of great prosperity, economics, and peace due to increases in Christian influence of the queen.
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what increased in England during the Victorian era?
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free trade, good morals, and manufacturing
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what was England known as that made it the most powerful country in the world at the time?
Definition
The World's Bank
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what was the secret of England's success?
Definition
good morals and leadership under a true christian
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