17.U Factories Responsible For Growth Of TU

Question 1

What are the 3 factors for this question?

Answer 1

Shift to factory production, Government Policy, Protection for Workers

Question 2

Shift to factory production

What were the features of the old system?

Answer 2

Master
Journeyman
Apprentice
(Connection between employer and employed)

Question 3

Shift to factory production

Between 1801-1851, urban areas grew by what%

Answer 3

23-29%

Question 4

Shift to factory production

What proportion of workers in Birmingham lived in back to back housing? How deep were foundations?

Answer 4

2/3
3 bricks deep

Question 5

Shift to factory production

What is the name of Hodgeskin’s pro Union journal?

Answer 5

Trade newspaper

Question 6

Government Policy

When was the Unlawful Oaths Act? Which group was tried by this?

Answer 6

1797
Tolpuddle Martyrs 1834

Question 7

Government policy

When was Haebus Corpus suspended?

Answer 7

1794

Question 8

Government actions

When were the combination acts? When were these repealed?

Answer 8

1799-1800
1824

Question 9

Government actions

When was the Masters and Servant Act?

Answer 9

1824

Question 10

Government actions

When were the Corn Laws?

Answer 10

1815

Question 11

Worker protection

When did weavers in Wigan form an association to stop wage reduction? How many branches?

Answer 11

1799
14 branches in Lancashire

Question 12

Workers protection

How many signatures did the London Printers gain in a petition to increase wages?

Answer 12

539

Question 13

Workers protection

When did indirect taxes rise and from what in the 1790s to what?

Answer 13

1816
From £16 million to £60 million

Question 14

Worker Protection

Between Feb and March 1830, how many petitions demanding lower rural taxes?

Answer 14

200