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Public Health - Reformers, Liberals + Industrialists
History GCSE Paper 2
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History
10th Grade
06/11/2017

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Term
Name two Social Reformers.
Definition

1. Edwin Chadwick

2. Charles Booth

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Name two Classical Liberals.
Definition

1. William Gladstone

2. Herbet Asquith

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Name two New Liberals.
Definition

1. Lloyd George

2. Winston Churchill

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Name two Religious Industrialists.
Definition

1. George Cadbury

2. Joseph Rowntree

Term
Describe how the Social Reformers tried to improve Public Health.
Definition

HELPED: They were linked by their desire to improve mankind, often because of their religious beliefs.

HINDERED: They lacked the power to force people to act on their findings.

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Describe how the New Liberals tried to improve Public Health.
Definition

HELPED: They responded to the threat from the Labour and Socialist parties by doing more to help working class people.

They believed that the laissez-faire government did not work when people did not have the means to help themselves. 

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Describe how the Classical Liberals tried to improve Public Health.
Definition

HELPED: The Great Stink of 1858 made London so disgusting they had to act.

HINDERED: They believed people had to help themselves and supported laissez faire government.

They felt it was too expensive to help all of Britain's poor.

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Describe how the Religious Industrialists tried to improve Public Health.
Definition

HELPED: Many industrialists were inspired by their Quaker faith to look after their workers.

Having healthy workers in houses owned by your company ment that workers lived longer and stayed working for you, making them more useful in buisness.

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