Democracy + Participation: Unit 1.4

Question 1

Date of the Magna Carta?

Answer 1

1215

Question 2

What was the Magna Carta?

Answer 2

• first document of British history that protected rights
• restricts power of monarchy over citizens (prerog powers)
• start of restriction of gov power

Question 3

Date of Habeas Corpus Act?

Answer 3

1679

Question 4

What was the Habeus Corpus Act?

Answer 4

• established foundation of right to fair trial
• means ‘you have a body’ + protection against unlawful imprisonment

Question 5

Date of English Bill of Rights?

Answer 5

1689

Question 6

What was English Bill of Rights?

Answer 6

• intro post revolution of 1688
• further restricted monarchy power
• established requirement for regular parliaments + free elections
• established protection from cruel and unusual punishment

Question 7

What date was Great Reform Act/Rep of the People Act?

Answer 7

1832

Question 8

What occured pre-1832? (wealth, ethnicity + class, electors, rotten boroughs, regions, low percent)

Answer 8

Voters were wealthy, white + mc.. number of electors ranged from under 10 (rotten boroughs) to over 12k
- criteria had to fit to vote, yet this ranged from regions
- overall 4% could vote

Question 9

What was the Great Reform Act?

Answer 9

• extended franchise to 800k, 1/5 male adults + 6% of population
• created seats in HOC to rep cities that began springing up as Industrial Rev gained pace
• disbanded rotten boroughs by redrawing constituency boundaries

Question 10

What date was the Second Reform Act?

Answer 10

1867

Question 11

What was the Second Reform Act?

Answer 11

• moved to enfranchise urban male wc
• product of significant shift to thinking about citizenship, democracy, rights
• influenced by American Civil War (ending 1865), as Chartist movement placed universal male suffrage, secret ballot + other social reforms at top of political agenda.. ACW symbolized enfranchisement + progressive dem ideals, emboldening liberal campaigners

Question 12

What date was the Third Reform Act?

Answer 12

1887

Question 13

What was Third Reform Act? (working men, £10, rent, 5.5, 40)

Answer 13

• extended vote to all working men
• act entitled all men holding land valued at more than £10/paying annual rent of £10 to vote
• increased vote to 5.5 mill, but 40% of men unable to vote + left women disenfranchised

Question 14

What date was Rep of People Act for women?

Answer 14

1918

Question 15

What did Rep of People 1918 do? (30, 21, property qualifications)

Answer 15

• extended enfranchisement for women to vote in Uk-wide elections
• enfranchised women over age of 30 (subject to property qualifications), as well as men over 21

Question 16

What happened ten years later after Rep of People 1918?

Answer 16

1928 - franchise extended for all men + women over age of 21 to vote in Equal Enfranchisement Act
- eliminated property qualifications for women , adding 5 million more women to electorate

Question 17

When was Rep of People Act introduced again?

Answer 17

1969

Question 18

What was the Rep of People Act 1969?

Answer 18

• lowered voting age to 18-20 for both genders

Question 19

Why was the Rep of People Act 1969 Act introduced?

Answer 19

Younger generation considered better educated, informed and more economically + socially independent