Equality

Question 1

Who owned a woman’s belongings in 1860?

Answer 1

Her Husband

Question 2

When did women over 30 gain the right to vote

Answer 2

1918

Question 3

What was a large boost of Women’s employment?

Answer 3

between 1914-18-WW1-reached 46.7%

Question 4

Who was the first female P.M.?

Answer 4

Margaret Thatcher in 1979

Question 5

When was abortion legalised?

Answer 5

1967

Question 6

When was taxation for women made independent?

Answer 6

1990

Question 7

When was rape in marriage made illegal

Answer 7

1994

Question 8

How many women lost their jobs due to pregnancy in 2016?

Answer 8

560,000

Question 9

When were the Notting Hill riots?

Answer 9

29th of August 1958

Question 10

What was the white defence league’s (teddy Boys) slogan?

Answer 10

“Keep Britain White”

Question 11

What was the Windrush?

Answer 11

The Empire Windrush was one of the first boats containing immigrants from many places but mostly the West Indies

Question 12

Why did people emigrate to Britain?

Answer 12

There was a push to emigrate to Britain after the war - lots of jobs, support your family, rebuild the economy

Question 13

By 1961, how many people from the Caribbean lived in London?`

Answer 13

100,000

Question 14

When was the 9 Hutton Rd incident and who were involved

Answer 14

It happened on the 2nd of September, and involved Jamaicans from Brixton.

Question 15

Who started the Notting Hill carnival in 1959?

Answer 15

Claudia Jones

Question 16

What was section 28?

Answer 16

Stopped teachers promoting LGBTQ+

Question 17

What were some effects of section 28?

Answer 17

It made students internalise homophobia and it made it difficult to talk about homosexuality

Question 18

When was homosexuality first made illegal?

Answer 18

1533 by Henry VIII

Question 19

When did Leviticus condemn sexuality?

Answer 19

538-330 BCE

Question 20

What were eugenics?

Answer 20

social theory that aims to cut out traits that lead to suffering, by limiting the people with those traits from reproducing

Question 21

When was the British eugenics society founded?

Answer 21

1907

Question 22

What is sterilization?

Answer 22

a surgery to make a person unable to reproduce

Question 23

What were the Nazis?

Answer 23

Eugenicists

Question 24

What is euthanansia?

Answer 24

Killing to relieve pain

Question 25

What was operation T4?

Answer 25

Involuntary euthanasia and sterilization for disabled people

Question 26

What fraction of people at the disability hospital died?

Answer 26

2/3

Question 27

Who organised the first Paralympic games?

Answer 27

Ludwig Guttman

Question 28

What were some impacts of the Paralympic games?

Answer 28

Increased life expectancy, made their life more comfortable, gave the hope

Question 29

What was the 1995 Disability Discrimination Act?

Answer 29

It said that you can’t discriminate on disability in the workplace, transport or education.

Question 30

What was the campaign against discrimination’s slogan?

Answer 30

‘piss on pity’

Question 31

What was the Northern Ireland conflict also known as?

Answer 31

The Troubles

Question 32

When did the troubles start and end?

Answer 32

It started in the 1960s and ended with the good Friday agreement in 1998.

Question 33

When was Bloody Sunday?

Answer 33

1972