7. Government: Lord Liverpool as Prime Minister

Question 1

Which individuals made up his cabinet?

Answer 1

Reactionary Tories- Lord Sidmouth, Addington, Lord Elson,

Canning would have been present, but he refused to work with Lord Castlereagh

Question 2

Why was Liverpool’s government at a disadvantage?

Answer 2

He sat in the House of Lord, not the Commons, and the few government ministers that were in the Commons were often beat in debates by Radicals and Whigs

Question 3

What was and what was the effect of the 1820 “Queen Affair”?

Answer 3

Prince Regent’s attempts to divorce Caroline of Brunswick. Monarchy became unpopular, and people distrusted the Prince Regent. Tarnished Liverpool’s own reputation.

Question 4

When was the rise of the High Tories/ Ultra Tories?

Answer 4

1820s

Question 5

Who newly joined the Cabinet during the Cabinet Reform?

Answer 5

Duke of Wellington, Robert Peel, William Huskinsson, (and after Lord Castlereagh’s suicide) George Canning (with his Liberal beliefs)

Question 6

What position did Peel hold in the 1820s

Answer 6

Home Secretary

Question 7

When did Lord Liverpool resign after having a stroke?

Answer 7

1827

Question 8

When were the Corn Laws passed?

Answer 8

1815

Question 9

What were the Corn Laws-

Answer 9

A law passed that stated that foreign corn could not be imported until the home priced reached 80 shillings

Question 10

When was income tax repealed?

Answer 10

1816

Question 11

When was the Truck Acts introduced?

Answer 11

1819

Question 12

When were the Relief Acts and Toleration Act passed?

Answer 12

1819

Question 13

When were the Six Acts passed?

Answer 13

1819

Question 14

When was the return to Bank of England cash payments?

Answer 14

1819

Question 15

When were Peel’s Penal code reforms?

Answer 15

1824

Question 16

When was the repeal of the Combination Act?

Answer 16

1824

Question 17

When was the Amending Act passed?

Answer 17

1827

Question 18

What was the result of repealing income tax?

Answer 18

Had to increase indirect taxes

Question 19

When and why was Habeas Corpus suspended?

Answer 19

1817- after an attack on the Prince Regent’s coach

Question 20

What did Six Acts do?

Answer 20

Outlawed unofficial military training, seditious meetings, seditious libel and introduced stamp duties on news papers (to make them out of reach for working classes)

Question 21

What did the Truck Act do?

Answer 21

An attempt to curtail the practise of employers paying wages in kind to factory workers

Question 22

What did the Factory Act of 1819 do?

Answer 22

Children under nine couldn’t be hired, and young people could only work 12 hours a day

Question 23

How did Peel re-code the penal law system?

Answer 23

Removal of minor offences that carried the death penalty such as pick-pocketing
Gaol Acts attempted to standardise and regularise the provision of gaols across the country
Separating female prisoners from male prisoners
Female prisoners would have female wardens
Humanitarian and efficiently- juries not willing to judge someone guilty if it meant their death

Question 24

How is Liverpool remembered?

Answer 24

For his repressive measures following social unrest after the Napoleonic Wars

Question 25

When was a Catholic Emancipation Act defeated during Liverpool’s tenure and why?

Answer 25

1825- couldn’t get his cabinet to support it

Question 26

What two issues did Lord Liverpool’s government not address?

Answer 26

Catholic Emancipation and Parliamentary Reform

Question 27

When did the Bank of England resume its cash payments?

Answer 27

1819