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Question 1

What did the Indian Act of 1784 do?

Answer 1

Removed the exclusive rights given to the East India Trading Company. Removed some (but not all) of the corruption, the EIC still retained much of its financial influence in India

Question 2

Who proposed a minimum wage for the poor and what was Pitt’s reaction?

Answer 2

Whitbread, dismissed him

Question 3

Why was smuggling bad for the government?

Answer 3

More smuggling = less tax paid = less money

Question 4

When did the London Corresponding Society hold a demonstration and how many people attended?

Answer 4

October 1795, 10,000

Question 5

What were the London Corresponding Society demonstrating about?

Answer 5

Addressed the king, blamed parliamentary corruption for hunger and distress

Question 6

Example of the middle class having more money to invest in things

Answer 6

200!gas companies founded by 1830

Question 7

When we’re people vaccinated against small pox and by who?

Answer 7

1796, Jenner

Question 8

What was the effect of the smallpox vaccine?

Answer 8

Less deaths so greater population and more poor people, worsened food crisis

Question 9

Effects of Pitt’s administrative reforms

Answer 9

Much more efficient administration, cut duplication of labour, brought order and method into govt business, cut unnecessary expenditure