democracy in 1800s & women sufferage

Question 1

Who can vote in the 1800s?

Answer 1

only men who owned land that is worth 40 shillings or more

Question 2

What percentage of the population can vote

Answer 2

only 5%

Question 3

Who can be an MP?

Answer 3

only men who owned land and property above a certain value could stand as an MP

Question 4

How did voting take place ?

Answer 4

it was held openly and with no secret ballot and electors could be bribed or bullied into voting a particular candidate

Question 5

What percentage of the population can stand as an MP?

Answer 5

only 5%

Question 6

What are rotten boroughs?

Answer 6

Settlement which used to have great important in the Middle Ages but now is a tiny village and has little importance. These still got MP’s

Question 7

What are boroughs?

Answer 7

Important towns or or cities which got MP’s

Question 8

What did MPs represent?

Answer 8

What did MPs represent? The British aristocracy

Question 9

When was the patriotic union society formed?

Answer 9

March 1818

Question 10

When did the Peterloo massacre happen?

Answer 10

16th August 1819

Question 11

Who was the main speaker of the Peterloo Massacre?

Answer 11

Henery Hunt

Question 12

Who was Henry Hunt?

Answer 12

An MP

Question 13

What did Henery Hunt want?

Answer 13

He wanted to end child Labour and 10 hour working day and voting rights for all men, annual parliaments & secret ballots

Question 14

what was the first attempt to improve the way parliament was elected?

Answer 14

the 1832 Reform Act

Question 15

What changes happened in the 1832 Reform Act?

Answer 15

many rotten boroughs lost mp’s new boroughs created giving growth in industrial towns their own MPs the right of vote was extended to a greater number of men

Question 16

Who were the main leaders of chartism?

Answer 16

William Lovett and Fergus O’Connor

Question 17

What were the 6 main points of the of the peoples charter?

Answer 17

1) Vote for every man over 21 years old
2) A secret ballot
3) no property qualification for MPs
4) payment for MPs
5) constituencies of equal size
6) annualise elected parliaments

Question 18

Why was the chartists formed?

Answer 18

because people weren’t happy with small amounts of changes made in the 1832 Reform Act

Question 19

Who were the suffragists ?

Answer 19

protestors for woman suffrage through peaceful protests

Question 20

who were the suffragettes ?

Answer 20

protestors of woman suffrage through violent protests

Question 21

What is the formal name for the suffragist’s organisation?

Answer 21

National Union of women’s suffrage societies NUWSS

Question 22

What is the formal name for the suffragette’s organisation?

Answer 22

Woman social and political union WSPU

Question 23

who was the leader of the suffragists?

Answer 23

Millicent Fawcett

Question 24

who were the leader of the suffragettes?

Answer 24

Emmeline Pankhurst

Question 25

What did the suffragists campaign for?

Answer 25

wider social issues as well as the vote for women

Question 26

What did the suffragettes campaign for?

Answer 26

purely for the vote of woman

Question 27

How many textile workers signed a petition for the suffergists in 1901?

Answer 27

67,000 textile workers

Question 28

After arrested how did sufferagettes protest in prison?

Answer 28

they went on hunger strikes

Question 29

what was the government’s response to sufferagettes going on hunger strikes in prison

Answer 29

they force fed them

Question 30

in 1906 how many MPs were in favor of women sufferage

Answer 30

400 out of 650 this included Henry Campbell bannerman

Question 31

who was the prime minister during the times of the sufferagettes

Answer 31

Herbet Asquith - against Women sufferage