1. How was England situated at the opening of the nineteenth
century?
2. What did the names Hohenlinden, Trafalgar, and Austerlitz
mean to England?
3. Sum up briefly the career of Wellesley.
4. How did Canning's policy mark a turning-point in British
foreign affairs?
5. What was the result of the Catholic agitation?
6. How did the locomotive influence England's empire?
7. How was Parliament changed by the Reform Bill?
8. What changes in the Poor Laws were at once undertaken?
9. What action regarding slavery and Irish taxation?
10. What was the Chartist agitation?
11. Describe the agitation for "repeal."
12. Why did the Corn Laws become intolerable?
13. What reforms were wrought through the influence of the Earl
of Shaftesbury?
14. Through what foreign complications did England pass under
Palmerston?
15. What important abuses were corrected under Gladstone's
leadership?
16. Describe his dealings with the Irish question.
17. How were certain great foreign matters dealt with by his
government?
18. What brilliant foreign achievements were accomplished by
Disraeli?
19. What is England's problem in the twentieth century?