Dates

Question 1

1793-1815

Answer 1

Napoleonic Wars with new French Republic

Question 2

1793

Answer 2

Friendly Societies Act passed; organisations had to be registered and have clear guidelines

Question 3

1799

Answer 3

Robert Owen takes over at New Lanark; Combination of Workmen Act passed unions illegal

Question 4

1800

Answer 4

Combination Act amendment passed: regulated union activities before 1825

Question 5

1810

Answer 5

Major strikes by cotton spinners in Lancashire lasting 4 months

Question 6

1815

Answer 6

Corn Law passed: higher taxes on imported grain.

Question 7

1816

Answer 7

Institute for the Formation of Character set up at New Lanark

Question 8

1818

Answer 8

Strikes by cotton spinners and weavers in Lancashire; Philanthropic Hercules set up in London; Philanthropic Society set up in Lancashire

Question 9

1823

Answer 9

Master and Servant Act passed: Made contracts is breached punishable by prison

Question 10

1824

Answer 10

Combination of Workmen Act repealed

Question 11

1825

Answer 11

New Combinations of Workmen Act passed: made it difficult to strike

Question 12

1827

Answer 12

The Co-operator newspaper published

Question 13

1829

Answer 13

John Doherty sets up Grand National Union of Operative Spinners in Great Britain and Ireland

Question 14

1832

Answer 14

National Equities Labour Exchange formed

Question 15

1834

Answer 15

Grand National Consolidated Trades Union established; arrest of the Tolpuddle ‘martyrs’

Question 16

1844

Answer 16

Rochdale Pioneers established

Question 17

1851

Answer 17

Amalgamated Society of Engineers founded

Question 18

1852

Answer 18

First strike action by the ASE is defeated

Question 19

1855

Answer 19

Friendly Societies Act passed

Question 20

1859

Answer 20

Molestation of Workmen Act passed, conceding more rights to picketers

Question 21

1860

Answer 21

London Trades Council set up; Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners created

Question 22

1863

Answer 22

Co-operative Wholesale Society set up

Question 23

1866

Answer 23

Sheffield ‘Outrages’; Birmingham Trades Council set up

Question 24

1867

Answer 24

Royal Commission on Trades Unions set up

Question 25

1868

Answer 25

Foundation of the Trades Union Congress

Question 26

1871

Answer 26

Trade Union Act passed

Question 27

1834

Answer 27

GNCTU: no paid membership and localized. Set up by Robert Owen

Question 28

1851

Answer 28

ASE: founded had paid membership and securites was more national.

Question 29

1859-60

Answer 29

ASE Gave 1000 to london builders striking