Changing Britain-British Topic

Question 1

Name the four jobs in the coals mines and describe a little about them

Answer 1

Hewer- men(eldest) mines the coal horizontal
Putter-teens or slightly older children,moves the coal from greets to base of shaft
Trapper-children (super young) sat in dark opening and closing ventilation doors
Bearer- mothers and girls, carried up to 6 tons of coal out of pit up a ladder

Question 2

Name five safety improvements in the mines

Answer 2

Pit pony
steam pumps
better ventilation (big fans)
steel pit props
davy safety lamp

Question 3

Improvements in housing (6)

Answer 3

heating
electricity
hot and cold water
bathrooms
gardens
coal fires

Question 4

Improvements in Health (6)

Answer 4

vaccinations
anaesthetics
fresh food
fresh water
flushing toilets
sewer system

Question 5

What is cholera?

Answer 5

A diseased caused from infested water/food (usually human waste)
Symptoms include spams of fingers and toes, vomiting, diahrea, dehydration

Question 6

What is typhus?

Answer 6

caught from fleas and lice that are infected
symptoms are fever, headaches, a rash sometimes

Question 7

What is TB

Answer 7

Tuberculosis is spread through coughs and sneezes of people already infected
symptoms are hacking, coughing blood, pain in lungs, fatigue, and can kill if untreated

Question 8

Causes of Bad Health (6)

Answer 8

outdoor toilets
poor quality of housing(overcrowding)
poor medical knowledge
rubbish/ waste on streets
poor diets
unclean water

Question 9

Causes of Disease (6)

Answer 9

unclean water
lack of vitamin C
open sewers
overcrowded graves
lack of toilets and drains.
lack of clean paved streets

Question 10

What did the People Charter Demand?

Answer 10

vote for every man of 21
secret ballot
no property qualification
MPS should be paid
equal constituencies
annual elections

Question 11

Who were the Chartists?

Answer 11

People who wanted to change the way of democracy and created petitions or charters of what they wanted

Question 12

How many people signed the 1848 petition?

Answer 12

six million people but the government claimed only 1.9 as people didn’t have signatures

Question 13

Name a significant railway line?

Answer 13

Liverpool to Manchester 1831
Dundee to Newytyle 1831
Arbroath to Forfar 1838

Question 14

Problems of laying the Railways? (5)

Answer 14

expensive
tons of workers needed
stations/platforms had to be built
marsh and bogs. ( soft land)
tunnelling was extremely dangerous

Question 15

Who were the navvies?

Answer 15

Mostly Irish men who came to work on the railways

Question 16

What were the navvies known to be like?

Answer 16

Aggressive, competitive, big, strong
causing ruckus in towns
fighting at night

Question 17

Name a few pieces of equipment Navvies carried

Answer 17

Lantern, pickaxe, shovel, nightstick used to defend property, and a ‘water’ bottle usually filled with alchohol

Question 18

Name 7 issues with housing in the 19th century

Answer 18

poor sanitation, overcrowding, poor sewage system,poor water supply, very little sunlight,dodgy landlords, poor quality buildings

Question 19

Describe the 1842 Mines Act

Answer 19

no girls allowed to work underground
no boys under age of 10 allowed to work underground
regular inspections of mines to make sure laws are being followed

Question 20

What benefits did the railway bring to Britain? (8)

Answer 20

newspapers, football league, standardized time, post-greeting cards,allowed people to live in suburbs, more jobs available,holidays, fresh food into cities

Question 21

Name 8 danger in the mines

Answer 21

flooding, gas explosions, fires, cave-ins/collapses, poisonous gases,black spit, long term health problems, winding gear failure