C+P -> Causes of Crime (Dates)

Question 1

During which century was there a sharp increase in the number of vagrants?

Answer 1

16th century (1500s)

Question 2

Years of two Elizabethan Poor Laws

Answer 2

1598 and 1601

Question 3

Year of end of War of the Roses

Answer 3

1485

Question 4

Years of the start and end of the Dissolution of the Monasteries

Answer 4

1536-1541

Question 5

Decade when Protestantism began to spread to England and Wales (and year when Henry VIII split from Catholic Church)

Answer 5

1520s (1529)

Question 6

Years in which Elizabeth executed Richard Gwyn and William Davies (Catholics) for treason

Answer 6

1584 and 1593

Question 7

Year of the Gunpowder Plot to blow up James I

Answer 7

1605

Question 8

Period when Cromwell and Puritans ruled Parliament and made heresy against Puritanism a crime

Answer 8

1649-1660

Question 9

Year when Witchcraft stopped being a criminal offence

Answer 9

1735

Question 10

Decade of major Witch-hunt in Essex led by Matthew Hopkins

Answer 10

1640s

Question 11

Years of protests over lack of workers’ rights in Merthyr Tydfil and Newport Chartists

Answer 11

Merthyr - 1831

Newport - 1838

Question 12

Years when farmers in South-West Wales dressed as women and attacked toll gates

Answer 12

1839-1843

Question 13

Decade of outbreaks of violence protesting against tithes in rural Wales

Answer 13

1880s

Question 14

During which century were Smuggling and Highway Robbery growing crimes?

Answer 14

18th century (1700s)

Question 15

Decades in which cars were first mass produced (and then became affordable to upper and middle-class people)

Answer 15

1920s (and 1930s)

Question 16

Year of riots in Cardiff against Chinese workers who didn’t participate in a strike

Answer 16

1911

Question 17

What did the second Elizabethan Poor Relief Act (Poor Law) do?

Answer 17

Made parishes responsible for looking after the poor

Question 18

Years between which Corn Laws were active (introduced and repealed)

Answer 18

1815-1846