C+P -> Nature of Crimes (Dates)

Question 1

Approximately when did the general rise and fall of crime rate happen in the Tudor period (and what were the three causes of the fall in crime)?

Answer 1

Rise in 1500s, fall after mid-1600s (good harvests, slower growth in population, greater ability to work)

Question 2

Year of Vagrancy Act

Answer 2

1547

Question 3

Year when Smuggling Gang clashed with Customs Officers in Fishguard

Answer 3

1704

Question 4

Decades when William Owen smuggled goods from I.O.Man to West Wales (and what was he smuggling?)

Answer 4

1720s and 1730s (smuggled brandy and salt)

Question 5

Year when William Owen was executed for smuggling

Answer 5

1747

Question 6

Centuries in which smuggling declined (and what was the main cause for the decline?)

Answer 6

18th and 19th centuries - government decreased taxes on importing goods, so it was no longer as profitable.

Question 7

Decade when Coast Guard was set up

Answer 7

1820s

Question 8

Year of execution of Dick Turpin

Answer 8

1739

Question 9

Centuries when Twn Sion Cati (Thomas Jones) was a Highwayman

Answer 9

16th-17th centuries

Question 10

Year when Bow Street Horse Patrol was set up and began targeting Highway Robbers

Answer 10

1763

Question 11

Decades when series of garrottings led to public panic about murder

Answer 11

1850s and 1860s

Question 12

Decade when Jack the Ripper mutilated 5 women

Answer 12

1880s

Question 13

Year of French Revolution

Answer 13

1789

Question 14

Years of Luddite Protests

Answer 14

1811-1813

Question 15

Years of Chartist Protests

Answer 15

1838-39 and 1848

Question 16

Year of Merthyr Rising against low pay in the iron industry

Answer 16

1831

Question 17

Person executed as a result of Merthyr Rising

Answer 17

Richard Lewis (Dic Pendyryn), the leader.

Question 18

Years of Swing Riots

Answer 18

1830-1831

Question 19

Decade since which crime has increased in the 21st century (and main reasons why)

Answer 19

1960s (new crimes have emerged due to social, economic and technological changes)

Question 20

Dates of London Riots

Answer 20

6-11th August 2011

Question 21

Year when IRA tried to blow up cabinet and PM

Answer 21

1984

Question 22

Year when IRA bombed Arndale Shopping Centre in Manchester

Answer 22

1996

Question 23

Date of 7/7 bombings

Answer 23

7th July 2005

Question 24

Name of extreme Welsh Nationalist group (and year in which they tried to blow up royal train for Prince Charles’ coronation as Prince of Wales)

Answer 24

Mudiad Amddiffyn Cymru (1969)

Question 25

Name of Welsh Nationalist group that firebombed properties (and decades in which they did this)

Answer 25

Meibion Glyndwr (1980s-1990s)