21: Pressure for Change

Question 1

What social campaigns did Shaftesbury get behind?

Answer 1

New factory act

Chimney sweepers act

Question 2

What public health reform was introduced?

Answer 2

General Health Board set up (dissolved after cholera outbreak)
Medical Officer of Health
Food Adulteration Act (didn’t affect water quality)

Question 3

When was the Chartist revival, why did it happen and who led them?

Answer 3

1847
Depression
O’Connor

Question 4

Were all of the Chartist demands ever met?

Answer 4

No, 5/6 were achieved by 1918

Question 5

When was the Reform League set up and who were members?

Answer 5

1865

Working class

Question 6

Who made up the Reform Union and what were they focussed on?

Answer 6

Middle class
Redistribution

Question 7

Who were the Fenians?

Answer 7

Irish militants and romantic nationalists

Wanted independent Ireland and repeal of the Act of Union

Question 8

Why did sympathy for Fenians increase in the late 1860s?

Answer 8

They were harshly punished after a rising in 1867

Question 9

How successful was the Home Rule for Ireland Campaign?

Answer 9

Got 59 MPs into parliament in the 1874 election

Effective as it was peaceful

Question 10

What did the Land League (set up in the 1870s) achieve in 1884 and 1885?

Answer 10

Gladstone granted them the extension of the franchise