20.I Growth of Banking - consequences of industrialisation (22 -squalid conditions)

Question 1

What 5 factors could be mentioned for a question on consequences of industrialisation?

Answer 1

Squalid conditions, Reform agitation, Government Legislation, Growth of Banking, Growth of Middle Class

Question 2

Squalid conditions

What did the population increase by between 1751 and 1851?

Answer 2

6 million to 17 million

Question 3

Squalid conditions

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

Answer 3

2/3

3 bricks

Question 4

Squalid conditions

When was the Sunderland cholera outbreak? How many killed?

Answer 4

1831
32,000

Question 5

Squalid conditions

When did Chadwick wrote his report on Manchester? How many streets had stagnant pools of refuse? How many unpaved?

Answer 5

1842
252 had stagnant pools of refuse
248 were unpaved

Question 6

Reform Agitation

When were the Grand National at their peak? How many members?

Answer 6

1 million in 1834

Question 7

Reform Agitation

How many Short Time committees by 1833?

Answer 7

26

Question 8

Reform Agitation

How many people attended the Days of May? When were they? Who led it?

Answer 8

200,000
May 1832
BPU

Question 9

Reform Agitation

How many signatures on the 1839 Chartist campaign?

Answer 9

1.2 million

Question 10

Government Legislation

What did the 1832 reform act do?

Answer 10

Increased the electorate to 650,000 (middle class representation)

Question 11

Government Legislation

What did the 1833 Factory Act do?

Answer 11

Gave under 18s less than a 12h working day

Question 12

Government Legislation

What did the 1842 Mines Act do? What proportion of the workforce were children under 19 in 1842?

Answer 12

Banned working underground for women and children under 10

1/3

Question 13

Government Legislation

What did the 1867 reform act do? (2)

Answer 13

• Granted the vote to all lodgers who paid rent of £10 a year or more.
• 2.5 million people given the vote

Question 14

Growth of Banking

What did the 1826 Banking Act do? (2)

Answer 14

• Allowed the issuing of notes to banks with more than 6 members
• Middle classes could get loans to buy machinery

Question 15

Growth of Banking

When could Joint Stock banks issue cheques?

Answer 15

1833

Question 16

Growth of Banking

How many banks in 1784 compared to 1808?

Answer 16

119 compared to 800

Question 17

Growth of Banking

In 1820, who paid all of his employees through banks? How many employees?

Answer 17

Benjamin Gott
1500

Question 18

Growth of Middle Class

How much did the middle class increase by between 1816 and 1831?

Answer 18

75%

Question 19

Growth of Middle Class

By 1811 how much money worth of goods had the middle class created in factories?

Answer 19

£130 million

Question 20

Growth of Middle Class

Name a popular middle class movement and when it was created?

Answer 20

Reform Union in 1864

Question 21

Growth of Middle Class

From 1851 to 1871, how many did the number of domestic servants increase by?

Answer 21

From 900,000 to 1.4 million

Question 22

Factory System

In 1851, what proportion of the population was employed in manufacturing? What did this rise to in 1871?

Answer 22

2/5
2/3

Question 23

Factory System

Who was seen as the founder of the Factory system? How much was he worth at the time of his death?

Answer 23

Richard Arkwright
£500,000

Question 24

Factory system

How many people lived in towns in 1800 compared to 1880?

Answer 24

25% compared to 80%