1800s

Question 1

What was the population of Britain in 1800?

Answer 1

10.6 million

Question 2

What was the average work week in 1800?

Answer 2

67.1 hours

Question 3

When was the Act of Union passed, and what did it do?

Answer 3

1800, came into effect in 1801, creating the United Kingdom

Question 4

When was the Health and Morals of Apprentices Act passed and what did it do?

Answer 4

1802; led by Sir Robert Peel, attempted to regulate working and living conditions of mill apprentices, though did nothing to improve the conditions of unapprenticed children, who were already becoming the majority

Question 5

When was the Malicious Shooting or Stabbing Act passed, and what did it do?

Answer 5

1803; formally banned abortion

Question 6

When was the slave trade abolished, under which ministry?

Answer 6

1807; Grenville’s “Ministry of All the Talents”

Question 7

What was the Ministry of All the Talents?

Answer 7

Wartime cross-party coalition government led by Grenville, though George Canning led Tory group choosing not to participate

Question 8

Who took power in 1801?

Answer 8

Henry Addington, Viscount Sidmouth (Tory)

Question 9

Who took power in 1804?

Answer 9

William Pitt the Younger (Tory)

Question 10

Who took power in 1806?

Answer 10

William Grenville (Whig/All Talents)

Question 11

Who took power in 1807?

Answer 11

The Duke of Portland (Tory)

Question 12

Who took power in 1809?

Answer 12

Spencer Perceval (Tory)

Question 13

Who demonstrated the first electrical battery, when?

Answer 13

Alessandro Volta, in 1800

Question 14

When did Robert Owen take over the New Lanark Mill?

Answer 14

1800

Question 15

When did George III veto Catholic Emancipation?

Answer 15

1801

Question 16

When was the first census taken?

Answer 16

1801

Question 17

What was the Treaty of Amiens?

Answer 17

Temporary peace between Britain and France, abandoned in 1803

Question 18

Who ended the peace, and why?

Answer 18

Britain declared war on France, due to disapproval of Napoleon’s efforts to politically reorder the continent

Question 19

What was the Charlotte Dundas?

Answer 19

First steam tug, built by William Symington and launched in 1802

Question 20

When did William Cobbett launch the Political Register?

Answer 20

1802

Question 21

What happened in Ireland in 1803?

Answer 21

Robert Emmet’s failed uprising

Question 22

Who was Richard Trevithick?

Answer 22

Inventor of the first high-pressure steam engine in the late 1790s; put first rail locomotive into service in 1804

Question 23

When did Nelson die?

Answer 23

1805, during the Battle of Trafalgar

Question 24

When did Napoleon launch the “continental system”, and what was it?

Answer 24

1806; effort to exclude Britain from European trade

Question 25

When did Hegel publish the Phenomenology of Spirit?

Answer 25

1807

Question 26

When did Klemens von Metternich first become Austrian foreign minister?

Answer 26

1809

Question 27

Name three major events in South African history in the 1810s

Answer 27

1802 - Cape of Good Hope returned to the Dutch; 1806 - Cape of Good Hope recaptured; 1809 - “Hottentot Code” instituted