Constitutional Crisis
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Who dominated the house of Lords in 1909?
conservatives
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how manystages are there to the constitutional crisis?
2
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when did the constitutional crisis start?
1909
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Why did the constitutional crisis start?
The People's budget
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what was the second part of the crisis to do with?
the Parliament Act
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What position did David Lloyd George have in 1909 in the government
chancellor of the exchequer
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why did DLG need so much money in 1909
for naval ships and to pay for reforms
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how much money did DLG need to get from the people's budget?
15 million
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who would be taxed heavily in the 1909 people's budget?
the rich
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DLG wanted to increase taxes on people earning...
£3,000
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If people earned more than £5,000...according to the people's budget, what would they have to pay
Super Tax
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what products were indirectly targeted by the people's act?
luxury items: cars, petrol, beer, tobacco
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What was one of DLG's morals?
redistribution of money from the wealthy to the poor
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what was the most controversial part of the people's budget?
land tax
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why did DLG want to help the poor
to prevent them from voting for labour
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what is the people's budget also regarded as?
the war of the classes
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Did the People's budget get passed?
yes, it was passed through the lords in November 1909
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What did the liberal's do after the people's bill was rejected?
called an election
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what was the main liberal election campaign in 1910?
do you want to run your country or do you want the lords to do it for you?
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what slogan was given by liberals about the 1910 election?
the peers vs the people
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how many seats did the liberals get in the 1910 election?
275
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how many seats did the conservatives get in the 1910 election?
273
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how many seats did the Irish Nationalists get in the 1910 election?
82
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how many seats did labour get in the 1910 election?
40
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Who supported the liberals in winning the 1910 election?
Irish Nationalists
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why did the Irish nationalists support the liberals in 1910?
they wanted to reduce the power of the lords in order to get home rule
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What was the outcome of the 1910 election?
the people's budget was passed
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when did the second part of the crisis start?
1910-1911
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Why did the second crisis occur
the liberals felt that the lords had too much power
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what couldn't the lords do to a money bill as stated in the Parliament Act?
amend or reject
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The lords were not allowed to veto according to the Parliemnt act but could do what
prevent the passing of the act for under 2 years
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the parliment act reduced the amount of time between elections from 7 years to...
5 years
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why was the passing of the parliament act a problem
it had to go through the lords
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how did the liberals suggest passing the parliment act?
they asked the king to create more liberal peers so the act could be passed
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why didn't the original liberals plan work when trying to pass the parliment act?
the king had died
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how did King George V try to resolve how the parliament act was passed?
called a conference
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How did the king end up creating more peers in regards to the passing of the parliament act?
the liberal party won another general election
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when was teh second 1910 election held?
december
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When was the parliament bill passed in the house of commons?
May 1911
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how many seats did both the liberal and conservative parties have in the 2nd 1910 election?
272
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how did the liberals manage to stay in power at the end of 1910?
the Irish nationalists helped to give them a majority in the commons
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When was the parliament bill passed in the house of lords?
august 1911
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what did the 'hedgers' do in the passing of the parliment act in the lords?
abstained
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what did the 'rats' do in the passing of the parliament act in the lords?
voted in favour
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what did the 'ditchers' do in the passing of the parliament act in the lords?
voted against the bill
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what did the parliament Act cause balfour to do?
resign as Tori leader
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who succeeded Balfour as Tori leader in 1911
Bonar Law
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what di dthe parliment act help to do to the british constitution?
make it more democratic
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name a limitation of the parliament act
peers where still hereditary positions
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how manystages are there to the constitutional crisis?
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when did the constitutional crisis start?
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what was the second part of the crisis to do with?
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