Crime and Punishment: c1700-c1900

Question 1

Witchcraft Laws appealed

Answer 1

1736

Question 2

Black Act

Answer 2

1723

Question 3

Poaching

Answer 3

• Only landowners whose land was worth more than £100 a year could hunt
• Many poachers used violence against gamekeepers such as a Staffordshire farm labourer in 1786

Question 4

The Black Market

Answer 4

Criminal gangs of poachers supplied towns and cities with growing demand for food due to population growth on the black market.

Question 5

French Revolution

Answer 5

1789

Question 6

The Tollpuddle Martyrs

Answer 6

1833

Question 7

Population increase

Answer 7

1750: 9.5 million people in England and Wales

Question 8

Voting Rights

Answer 8

1885: All men could vote

Question 9

Railways

Answer 9

1840s

Question 10

Literacy

Answer 10

1850: 70% of people could read and write
1900: 95%
- 1880: all children have to go to school until the age of 13

Question 11

The Fielding Brothers

Answer 11

1805

Question 12

Met Police Force

Answer 12

1829

Question 13

Town had own Police Forces

Answer 13

1835

Question 14

Bloody Code Abolished

Answer 14

1820s-1830s

Question 15

Last Beheading

Answer 15

1820

Question 16

America’s Independence

Answer 16

1770s

Question 17

Gold Rush

Answer 17

1851

Question 18

Transportation costs

Answer 18

In the 1830s transportation costed half a million pounds per year

Question 19

Gaols Act

Answer 19

1823

Question 20

State of Prisons in England and Wales(Act)

Answer 20

1777

Question 21

Elizabeth Fry

Answer 21

1780-1845

Question 22

Transportation Abolished

Answer 22

1857