Early Modern

Question 1

How many Londoners died from Plague 1665-66?

Answer 1

Between 70,000- 100,000

Question 2

How did food change over this era?

Answer 2

Less people died from starvation due to improvements in farming

Question 3

What did Thomas Newcomen invent?

Answer 3

The steam train in 1712

Question 4

How did trade change?

Answer 4

Increased
Tobacco and sugar were introduced

Question 5

What happened to monasteries and what was the impact of this?

Answer 5

Henry VIII closed them down
Nowhere for the sick to go
No longer access to clean water from monasteries

Question 6

What did Hooke invent?

Answer 6

A powerful microscope that could see cells

Question 7

What was seen in 1683?

Answer 7

Germs were seen through a microscope

Question 8

How was the printing press important?

Answer 8

Ideas could be shared easily but still weren’t accepted

Question 9

What did the rich eat?

Answer 9

Meat, bread, fish, wine
Not fruit as they thought it caused illness

Question 10

What did the poor eat?

Answer 10

Still lots of pottage
Occasionally meat

Question 11

What were houses like in towns?

Answer 11

Tall and thin
Damp and draughty

Question 12

What were peasant’s clothes like?

Answer 12

Dirty and full of lice

Question 13

How did people have access to water?

Answer 13

Rich people had it piped
Collected from conduits or water sellers

Question 14

What did Hugh Middleton do?

Answer 14

1609 built ‘New River’ to bring piped water into London

Question 15

What did rakers do?

Answer 15

Collected sweepings

Question 16

Who developed the flushing loo?

Answer 16

John Harrington in 1596
He only built 2

Question 17

What was a jake

Answer 17

A privy overhanging a river

Question 18

How were cesspits emptied?

Answer 18

At night you could pay for people to carry the barrels out of the house

Question 19

What was the highest death rate of plague?

Answer 19

1/3 of the population

Question 20

How did Henry VIII respond to plague?

Answer 20

Royal proclamation in 1518
Pesthouses to be set up outside of town walls

Question 21

How did Elizabeth respond to plague

Answer 21

1578 Plague orders

Question 22

What was in the 1578 Plague orders?

Answer 22

Watchmen to enforce them
Money collected for victims
Isolate the infected households

Question 23

What did people think caused plague?

Answer 23

Miasma
God
Cats and Dogs

Question 24

How were plague laws made more strict in 1604?

Answer 24

People could be whipped

Question 25

How did people respond to plague

Answer 25

Turned to God
Move to countryside
Trying to find a cure using herbs

Question 26

How did local governments respond to plague?

Answer 26

Mayors and Aldermen isolated the sick

Question 27

How did local governments improve health after 1670?

Answer 27

Pave more streets with stone
Oil street lamps
Only improved life for aesthetics

Question 28

Why was Gin a problem?

Answer 28

It was cheap
Led to violence and crime

Question 29

What was the 1729 Gin Act?

Answer 29

Gin makers had to pay taxes and buy a licence

Question 30

Why did the 1729 Gin Act fail?

Answer 30

Too many small gin shops to enforce it

Question 31

What was the 1751 Gin Act ?

Answer 31

Illegally selling gin led to imprisonment
Could be transported to Australia

Question 32

Was the 1751 Gin Act successful?

Answer 32

Yes as it reduced gin drinking