Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Explain why the conservative government had became unpopular by 1906 - Party Politics
- The Boer
War
- It took many years to for the British
to win the Boer War
- Women and children died in the war
- 60,000 Boer's died
- The use of concentration camps
- So, the British
actually came up
for the use of the
camps
- The public were appalled by the way the government handled the
war
- Tariff Reform
- The government split in to 2
- Those who supported Chainberlain
- Those who prefer the traditional ideas of free trade
- But, many liked Chainberlain
- Chainberlain resigned from the government and the conservtive party
- Under Arthur Balfour's adopted tariffs
- Arthur Balfour
- He had many struggles with the tariff reforms
- He did nothing with the previous acts on the Education Law
- He didn't stand up to Joe Chainberlain
- The public were appalled by the living conditions
- The Edcuation Act
- Many parties gained support mainly the Liberals
- The Conservatives became increasingly attractive in the 19th century
- The act was supported by non-comformess Liberal party (so there was a campaign against it)
- This weakened the Conservatives image and they became more popular