| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Victoria | Queen of 19th century England |
| Robert Peel | Founded the London Police |
| Bobbies | Named after Robert Peel |
| British Empire | The sun was said to not set on this. |
| Albert | Husband to Victoria |
| Reform Bill of 1832 | Gave more men suffrage |
| William Gladstone | Leader of the Liberals |
| Benjamin Disraeli | Leader of the Conservatives |
| Charles Haddon Spurgeon | "Prince of Preachers" |
| Rudyard Kipling | Wrote "Just So Stories" |
| Charles Dickens | Author of a "Christmas Carol" |
| William Booth | Founded the Salvation Army |
| Salvation Army | "Church" that tried to minister to the poor |
| YMCA | Tried to meet physical and spiritual needs of young men |
| Florence Nightingale | Nurse in war, organized nursing profession |
| Gold, God, and glory | Reasons to expand the British empire |
| Crimean War | Britain and others tried to check expansion of Russia |
| Canada | Self governing British dominion |
| East India Company | Trade company controlled much of India at one point |
| William Carey | Father of Modern Missions |
| Africa | English saw it as a "dark" continent |
| South Africa | Colonized by Dutch, captured by British |
| Boer War | Britain fought the Boer colonies |
| Orange Free State | A republic that became part of South Africa |
| Transvaal | A republic that became part of South Africa |
| Suez Canal | Why Britain wanted to control Egypt |
| Australia | Captain Cook "discovered" this land |
| Maoris | Original inhabitants of New Zealand |
| British Commonwealth | What the British Empire turned into |
| Irish Republic | This country close to England used to be controlled by the British |
| Edward VII | Succeeded Victoria as monarch |
| Charles Darwin | Developed Theory of Evolution |
| Social Darwinism | Evolution applied to society |
| Modernism | A belief in human rationality |
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