18.P Campaigning Individuals Did More To Help The Poor 1834-70

Question 1

What are the factors for this question?

Answer 1

Individuals
Government
Charities

Question 2

Individuals

When did Charles Dickens publish Oliver Twist and Hard Times?

Answer 2

1837
1854

Question 3

Individuals

When did Elisabeth Gaskell publish Mary Barton?

Answer 3

1848

Question 4

Individuals

What was Chadwick’s 1842 report called? What did this lead to?

Answer 4

Report for the Sanitary Conditions of Labouring populations
1848 PHA

Question 5

Individuals

When did Samual Smiles publish Self Help?

Answer 5

1859

Question 6

Charity

When did Angela Burdett Coutts found Urania Cottage with Charles Dickens?

Answer 6

1847

Question 7

Government

What did the 1834 PLAA do?

Answer 7

• Formed the Principle of Less Eligibility
• Moved away from outdoor relief

Question 8

Government

Between 1834-51 how many workhouses were built?

Answer 8

402

Question 9

Government

What scandal did workhouse regulations enable?

Answer 9

Andover in 1845

Question 10

Government

What organisation banned outdoor relief in 1844?

Answer 10

Outdoor Relief Prohibitory Order

Question 11

Government

Which organisation severely limited outdoor relief in 1851?

Answer 11

Outdoor Relief Regulation Order

Question 12

Government

When was the Metropolitan Poor Act?

Answer 12

1867

Question 13

Charity

When was the Workhouse Visiting Society created?

Answer 13

1858

Question 14

Charity

Which medical journal investigated the quality of workhouse medicine? What did this lead to?

Answer 14

The Lancet
1867 Metropolitan Poor Act

Question 15

Charity

When was the Charity Organisation Society formed? What did they do?

Answer 15

1869
Categorised the poor into deserving and undeserving