1800s Flashcards
What was the population of Britain in 1800?
10.6 million
What was the average work week in 1800?
67.1 hours
When was the Act of Union passed, and what did it do?
1800, came into effect in 1801, creating the United Kingdom
When was the Health and Morals of Apprentices Act passed and what did it do?
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
When was the Malicious Shooting or Stabbing Act passed, and what did it do?
1803; formally banned abortion
When was the slave trade abolished, under which ministry?
1807; Grenville’s “Ministry of All the Talents”
What was the Ministry of All the Talents?
Wartime cross-party coalition government led by Grenville, though George Canning led Tory group choosing not to participate
Who took power in 1801?
Henry Addington, Viscount Sidmouth (Tory)
Who took power in 1804?
William Pitt the Younger (Tory)
Who took power in 1806?
William Grenville (Whig/All Talents)
Who took power in 1807?
The Duke of Portland (Tory)
Who took power in 1809?
Spencer Perceval (Tory)
Who demonstrated the first electrical battery, when?
Alessandro Volta, in 1800
When did Robert Owen take over the New Lanark Mill?
1800
When did George III veto Catholic Emancipation?
1801
When was the first census taken?
1801
What was the Treaty of Amiens?
Temporary peace between Britain and France, abandoned in 1803
Who ended the peace, and why?
Britain declared war on France, due to disapproval of Napoleon’s efforts to politically reorder the continent
What was the Charlotte Dundas?
First steam tug, built by William Symington and launched in 1802
When did William Cobbett launch the Political Register?
1802
What happened in Ireland in 1803?
Robert Emmet’s failed uprising
Who was Richard Trevithick?
Inventor of the first high-pressure steam engine in the late 1790s; put first rail locomotive into service in 1804
When did Nelson die?
1805, during the Battle of Trafalgar
When did Napoleon launch the “continental system”, and what was it?
1806; effort to exclude Britain from European trade
When did Hegel publish the Phenomenology of Spirit?
1807
When did Klemens von Metternich first become Austrian foreign minister?
1809
Name three major events in South African history in the 1810s
1802 - Cape of Good Hope returned to the Dutch; 1806 - Cape of Good Hope recaptured; 1809 - “Hottentot Code” instituted
