Introduction To British Culture
Karteikarten für den Intro to British Culture Test
Karteikarten für den Intro to British Culture Test
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| Sprache | English |
| Kategorie | Englisch |
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| Erstellt / Aktualisiert | 21.01.2025 / 24.01.2025 |
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Who was Emmeline Pankhurst?
- 1858 - 1928
- British Political Activist
- Suffragette
- is remembered as one of many women who fought hard to help women gain the right to vote.
Who was Winston Churchill?
- 1874 - 1965
- military officer in WWII
- served as conservative prime minister twice
Who was Margaret Thatcher?
- 1925 - 2013
- former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
- first women to hold the position
- very controverse figure since she is well known as one of Britains most hated politicians
Who brought religion to Britain?
Who build Scottland, Aberdeen, The Empire?
The Irish
Napoleanic Wars - Wellington's soldiers were ... % irish.
30
The British / English Empire was gradually built up over ... centuries from the 16th century.
Who were the Stuarts?
- first permanent overseas colony - Jamestown
What happened to the Empire in 1931?
- it became the Commonwealth of Nations
- independence gradually granted to other colonies
When was North America coloniezed?
When were the West Indies colonized?
When was South Asia colonized?
When were parts of Africa colonized?
When was India colonized?
when was Australia colonized?
When was Canada colonized?
When was Sri Lanka colonized?
When was Singapore colonized?
When was Hong Kong colonized?
There is a lot of social mobility in GB.
Explain the Forster Act in 1870.
- Industrialists expressed that mass education was essential to the nations's ability to maintain its lead in manufacture.
- establishement of school boards to build schools
- 1880 - Cumpulsory attendance
- fee paying until 1891
- many children still worked outside of school hours/played truant as parents could not afford the loss of wages from the children's work
Explain the Butler Act of 1944.
- State took responsibility to educate the people to secondary level.
- offered free secondary education
- aim to appease the public and avoid social unrest, to rebuild the nation and to counter crime, poverty
What is the tripartite system?
The Tripartite System was the selective school system of state-funded secondary education between 1945 and the 1970s in England, Wales and from 1947 to 2009 in Northern Ireland. It was an administrative implementation of the Education Act 1944 and the Education Act (Northern Ireland) 1947.
When were free schools established?
2010
Who crowns the monarch?
the Archbishop
who is the head of church?
The Archbishop since the 5th century.
What does line of succession mean?
- a sequence of named individuals, typically determined by birth order or hierarchical position, that establishes who is to succeed the current holder of a title, estate or position
- the royal titles have been passed on by birth
- originally male heirs
To when does the oldest British institution date back?
The monarchy dates back to the Anglo Saxon times.
During the medival times the church had their own laws and did not abide by the King's laws.
During the medival times the church did not have their own laws and abided by the King's laws.
Who were the first constitutional Monarchs?
William and Mary 1660
What is the legislature?
What is the Executive?
What is the Judiciary (non-political)?
The monarch is ...
What is the Magna Carta?
- 1215
- Magna Carta was isssued in June 1215 and was the first document to put into writing that the king and his government was not above the law. It sought to prevent the king from exploiting his power, and placed limits of royal authority by establishing law as a power in itself.
What is the Petition of Rights?
- 1628
- The petition of right, passed on 7th June 1628, is an English constitutional document setting out specific individual protections against the state, reportedly of equal value to Magna Carta and the Bill of Rights 1689.
- petition sent by the English Parliament to King Charles I complaining of a series of breaches of law.
- the petition sought recocnition of four principles:
- no taxation without the consent of Parliament,
- no imprisonment without cause,
- no quartering of soldiers on subects
- and no martial law in peacetime
What is the English Bill of Rights?
- 1689
- the bill firmly established the principles of frequent parliaments, free elections and freedom of speech within parliament - known today as Parliamentary Privilege.
Who is the Head of Church today?
The Monarch
What is a Bank holiday?
A bank holiday is a national public holiday in the United Kingdom and the Crown Dependencies, and a colloquial term for a public holiday in Ireland.
