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1
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Why was French war an impediment?

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People began to associate reformists with jacobins and lawlessness. Turned the middle class off.

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What was the punishment introduced for seditious acts and when? What was it called?

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Capital punishment for meeting in groups, publishing seditious material. 1785.

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3
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What followed the napoleonic wars?

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A poor harvest in 1816

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What was a popular pamphlet at the time? How much did it cost?

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Cobbett’s political register.

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5
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What illegal pamphlet was published and when?

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Parliamentary debates 1802-1812

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Give another seditious publication with the type of content and number of subs and author

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Wooler’s ‘The Black Dwarf’ 1817
12,000 subs
Satirical journal that favoured working class interests

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7
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Corn laws were introduced when? Why did this bother the middle classes?

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1815

It meant they had to increase labourers wages so that they could afford food.

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8
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Which type of approach did the manufacturing classes want?

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Laissez-faire.

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9
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Why did the gov. introduce protectionist measures in 1815?

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They had spent so much money on the napoleonic wars and to restrict trade

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10
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What was the issue with seat distribution in the industrial cities?

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The number of seats had not yet caught up with the increased size of population as a result of industrialisaton.

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What did the middle classes see as most inefficient about the political system?

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patronages

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12
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Give two results of the 6 acts… when were the 6 acts passed?

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Capital punishment for sedition.

Gatherings of more than 50 people illegal

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13
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When was Peterloo?

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1819

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How many people died and were injured at Peterloo?

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18

400

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15
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How many attended Peterloo?

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60,000

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16
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Who was arrested at Peterloo?

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Hunt, Francis Burdett MP

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When were the Spa field riots, who spoke at them and how many people attended on the busiest day?

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1817
Hunt, Watson
20,000

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Where were the Spa field riots?

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Islington

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What was the March of the Blankateers and where was it?

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Lancashire weavers marching to london to demand reform.

20
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What was Arthur Thistlewood up to and when?

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He was plotting the Cato Street Conspiracy to assassinate the cabinet

21
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Buy how much did the economy grow between 1821 and 29?

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16.8%

22
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Explain the exchange in seats between Grampound and Yorkshire

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Grampound was a rotten borough in Cornwall that was disenfranchised. The seats taken away were given to Yorkshire.

23
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What did John russel try to do?

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He tried to disenfranchise 100 rotten boroughs but failed to pass the movement by a large majority

24
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What was the attitude shift among politicians around this point?

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That reform could be used as a form of appeasement.

25
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Which riots occurred in 1830 and who lead them?

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Swing Riots.

Captain Swing :)

26
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Which publication, beginning in 1830, continually spoke of the need for reform?

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The Westminster Review

27
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What changed in 1829 and how many petitions did this issue bring about between Feb and March 1830

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There was a poor harvest.

200

28
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How much was the borough of Gaton bought for in 1801

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£90,000

29
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Which PM came from Old Sarum and how many constituents did he have?

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Pitt the elder

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30
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What were the voting requirements for counties?

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Ownership of a property worth 40 shillings a year

31
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How many voters did yorkshire and bedfordshire have?

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Yorkshire- £20,000, Bedfordshire 2,000

32
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How many towns had more than 50,000 inhabitants?

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7

33
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What was the main source of work for people in 1785?

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agriculture

34
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What allowed the economy to continue growing despite there being an agricultural focus?

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Manufacturing, foreign trade

35
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What are three factors that contributed toward social change at this time?

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  • railways
  • social mobility
  • Newspapers
36
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What were the different qualifications to vote from the boroughs?

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  • corporations- only town councillors can vote
  • burgage- owns a property with burgage
  • freeman - holds the free man status
  • potswalloper- has a hearth big enough to boil a pot
  • freeholder
  • scot and lot- pays poor relief
37
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When was the French revolution?

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1789

38
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What did Edmund Burke write that same year?

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‘reflections on the revolution in France’

39
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What did Edmund Burke say?

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That the virtue of the British system is that it is cautiously adaptive.

40
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Who responded to him and with what title in 1790?

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Mary Wollstonecraft, vindication of the rights of man.

41
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What did she say in this book?

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That the british system was overly hierarchical

42
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How many people purchased Paine’s the rights of man published in 1791 and 2?

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200,000

43
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English chronicle attitude toward french revolution quote

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‘thus has the hand of justice been brought down on France

44
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Name two societies that emerged around this time. What did they support?

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-Sheffield society for constitutional information
-London corresponding society
Universal manhood suffrage

45
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How can you characterise the typical london corresponding society goer?

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Middle class, privincial.

46
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How many sigs did a petition with the Sheffield society for constitutional information get in 1792?

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10,000

47
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Why were there riots in 1780?

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In 1778 the papist’s act was introduced which allowed Catholics to own property and land.

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