2 - The Radical

Question 0

When were the Corn Laws passed and what did they do?

Answer 0

1815, prohibited corn imports unless it cost more than 80 shillings per quarter

Question 1

How many demobilised soldiers were there after the Napoleonic wars?

Answer 1

400,000

Question 2

When did Luddism occur?

Answer 2

1811-17

Question 3

What did Luddites do and why?

Answer 3

Broke machines as they feared mechanisation would take their jobs

Question 4

When were the Spa Feild Riots?

Answer 4

End of 1816

Question 5

What were Spa Field Riots and what happened?

Answer 5

Series of three meetings organised by Spaceans. Second meeting, group attacked gunsmith and planned to take over key establishments

Question 6

When was the March of the Blanketeers?

Answer 6

1817

Question 7

What caused the March of the Blanketeers?

Answer 7

Seditious Meetings Act

Question 8

How many took part in the March of the Blanketeers?

Answer 8

300

Question 10

What was the route of the March of the Blanketeers?

Answer 10

Manchester to London

Question 11

How did the March of the Blanketeers end?

Answer 11

One marcher needlessly killed by authorities in Cheshire

Question 12

When was the Pentrich Uprising?

Answer 12

9th June 1817

Question 13

What happened during the Pentrich Uprising?

Answer 13

Around 500 villagers attacked Nottingham Castle

Question 14

Why did the Pentrich Uprising fail?

Answer 14

Largely due to government spies eg ‘Oliver’

Question 15

When was Brandreth executed?

Answer 15

7th November 1817

Question 16

When was the Peterloo Massacre?

Answer 16

16th August 1819

Question 17

How many people gathered to see Henry Hunt in St Peter’s Field?

Answer 17

60,000

Question 18

How many people died/injured as a result at Peterloo?

Answer 18

400 injured, 11 dead

Question 19

What did the government launch in responce to Peterloo?

Answer 19

Six Acts

Question 20

When was the Cato Street conspiracy?

Answer 20

1820

Question 21

What were the radicals planning at Cato Street?

Answer 21

To assassinate the entire Tory cabinet

Question 22

Why did Cato Street fail?

Answer 22

Government spying - especially WJ Richards

Question 23

What was the result of the Cato Street Conspiracy?

Answer 23

Thistlewood and four others excecuted

Question 24

When did the Queen Caroline Affair take place?

Answer 24

1820-21

Question 25

How did the Radicals use Caroline?

Answer 25

To undermine the government - Corbett was her advisor

Question 26

What was given to Caroline to make sure she was absent at the coronation of George IV?

Answer 26

£50,000

Question 27

Who became the scapegoat of the nation after the Queen Caroline Affair?

Answer 27

Lord Sidmouth and George Canning

Question 28

When were the Corn Laws set up?

Answer 28

1815

Question 29

What did the Corn Laws do?

Answer 29

Made sure no foreign corn imports were allowed unless price per quarter was over 80 shillings

Question 30

When was income tax repealed?

Answer 30

1816

Question 31

When was income tax initially introduced?

Answer 31

1797

Question 32

What did the repeal of income tax lead to?

Answer 32

Increased indirect taxation - prices of items like beer and bread hugely increased

Question 33

When were the Game Laws introduced?

Answer 33

1816

Question 34

What did the Game Laws do?

Answer 34

Made poaching against a landowner illegal - could be imprisoned or transported to Australia

Question 35

When was the suspension of Habeas Corpus?

Answer 35

1817

Question 36

What did the suspension of Habeas Corpus mean?

Answer 36

Government could hold any suspect indefinitely

Question 37

How long did the suspension of Habeas Corpus last?

Answer 37

A year - repealed in 1818

Question 38

When was the Seditious Meetings Act introduced?

Answer 38

1817

Question 39

What did the Seditious Meetings Act do?

Answer 39

Made meetings of over 50 people illegal. Also made mutiny in the armed forced punishable by death

Question 40

When were the Six Acts passed?

Answer 40

1819

Question 41

What happened to Sidmouth and Canning after the affair?

Answer 41

Forced into resignation

Question 54

What were the Six Acts?

Answer 54

Ban on military training, increased powers to magistrates to search for arms, ban on meetings of over 50 people, sped up trials, imposed resrtictions on press, increased stamp duty on newspapers