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Victorian England (Pages 285-292)
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William Pitt the younger
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Served as a Prime Minister during the French Revolution and most of the Napoleonic Wars
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Duke of Wellington
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Britain's esteemed hero of the Napoleonic Wars
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Sir Robert Peel
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Founded the London Metropolitan Police Force
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Queen Victoria
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The longest-ruling monarch in English history who ruled for 64 years
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The Great Exhibition
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The first world's fair set up by Joseph Paxton
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Prince Albert
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The German prince of consort who married Victoria
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Reform Bill of 1832
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Granted suffrage to all middle-class males
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Liberals
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Represented the middle class and sought to grant more political liberties to more people
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Conservatives
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Represented the nobility and tended to oppose change
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William Gladstone
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The Grand Old Man who formerly was a Conservative and changed to a Liberal
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Benjamin Disraeli
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A Jewish man who changed from a Liberal to the leader of the Conservative party
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Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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The greatest preacher of the Victorian Era who was acclaimed "Prince of Preachers."
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F. B. Meyer
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A Bible teacher and speaker who wrote several devotional studies of Bible characters
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Dwight L. Moody
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The greatest American evangelist
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Ira Sankey
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A songleader who worked with Dwight L. Moody
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C. T. Studd
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A famous cricket player who spent his life as a missionary to China, India, and Africa
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Robert Morrison
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Wrote a Chinese dictionary and translated the Bible into Chinese
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J. Hudson Taylor
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Founder of the China Inland Mission
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The Boxer Rebellion
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A Chinese terrorist group that used the aid of Chinese authorities to destroy Westerner's property
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Commodore Matthew Perry
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Convinced Japan to sign treaty for trade and diplomatic relations with the U. S.
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Townsend Harris
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The first diplomatic representative that America sent to Japan
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Treaty of Amity and Commerce
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AKA Townsend Harris Treaty.
Permitted missionaries to enter Japan
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Jonathan Goble
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The first Baptist missionary to Japan who invented the first rickshaw
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Neesima
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The most famous of all Japanese Christians
Renamed Joseph Hardy
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George Mueller
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England's most famous humanitarian who founded orphanages
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William Booth
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Founded the Salvation Army
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YMCA
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Young Men's Christian Association
Sought to improve the spiritual condition of their young men
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Lord Ashley
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The earl of Shaftesbury who cared for the mentally handicapped
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Monitorial Schools
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The older children helped teach the younger children
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Florence Nightingale
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She single-handedly created the modern nursing profession
The Lady with the Lamp
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1837
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Queen Victoria's reign starts
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