Conservative governments, 1890-1905
- Created by: Frances Milner
- Created on: 07-04-13 15:44
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- Conservative Ascendancy, 1890-1905
- Central ideas to Salisbury's government
- Conservatism
- Preservation of current traditions and existing institutions
- Needed to appeal to working class voters
- Fatalism
- Believed that fate had a huge part to play in how things turned out; man cannot control everything
- Preserving Anglican values
- 'Anti-disintegration'
- Disintegration = breaking up the things that held society and the empire together
- Recognised class conflicts as potentially destructive
- Britain as a world power
- Monarchy + CofE + Parliament = maintains the integrity of Britain
- Empire must be preserved
- Conservatism
- Problem of national efficiency
- Knowledge of poverty through B & R's study
- Question of the working classes undermining Britain, socially and economically
- Cycle of economic slumps had undermined Britain's strong economy
- Not expanding in industries, such as chemical production, as fast as the USA or Germany
- Decline in agriculture
- International trade gap
- Integrity of Britain as a unified country threatened by hostility in Ireland
- Key legislation
- The Education Act
- 1902
- Based on the belief that British education was inferior to other countries
- Restructured elementary and secondary education under local authorities
- Passed amidst great controversy
- LEAS were required to support Anglican schools out of rates
- Liberals fought on behalf of the Nonconformists and campaigned nationally
- Cost Conservatives dearly
- 70,000 prosecutions over non-payment of rates
- Split the party, as the delicate balance of Anglicans and Nonconformists was essential for work
- The Education Act
- New Imperialism
- The empire should be seen as an economic asset, and needed to be managed and developed
- Jameson Raid
- PM of the Cape, Rhodes, wanted Transvaal under GB's control
- 1896
- Staged a coup and a revolt
- Damaged Chamberlain's reputation
- Second Boer War
- British victory = 1902
- Backfired scorched earth policy meant a huge spread in typhus and cholera in camps
- British use of concentration camps
- Exposed the British armed forces as unfit and barely able to defeat guerilla militia
- Effects
- International condemnation of GB
- Divisions in parties
- Sour public reaction
- Central ideas to Salisbury's government
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