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Fact Test 4 Flashcards

1
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What was the voting qualification before the GRA?

A

Had to own property with a rental value of 40 shillings

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2
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What did Pitt present himself as?

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A non-partisan national leader, northites returned to his side

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3
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What did Pitt deliberately not do to his cabinet?

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Put in heavyweights such as Shelbourne or Jenkinson

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4
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What was the national debt in 1783?

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£250 million, a rise of 91%

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5
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Who led the London Corresponding Society? (LCS)

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Hardy and Place they were known radicals

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6
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When was the Copenhagen field meeting, who ran it and how many attended?

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26th October 1795, LCS, 100,000 present.

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When was the march of the blanketeers and what happened?

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March 1817, 300 left Manchester and marched for 7 miles, then were stopped, 1 killed

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8
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What did the reciprocity of duties act do?

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Made trade deals with Prussia, Sweden and Denmark

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9
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The death of George IV triggered what?

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An election in 1830, focused on reform.

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10
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What riots took place after the Lords rejected the second reform bill?

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12 killed in riots in Bristol

Nottingham castle burnt

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11
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What did peel support in opposition?

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The Municipal Corporations Act 1835

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12
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How many MPs did the conservatives gain under Peel?

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100 in 1835 election

40 more in 1837

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13
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What did Bonham’s Carlton Club do?

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Did election planning, registration of voters, selection of candidates and press

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14
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How many seats did the conservatives win in areas of only 1,000 voters in 1841 election?

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44 seats

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15
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What did the 1841 budget do?

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Import duty reduced on 750 out of 1,200 products

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What did the 1842 Mines act do?

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Stopped girls, women and boys under 10 working underground

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17
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What did peel call the ten hour movement

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An income tax on the poor

18
Q

What followed the failure of the Chartist petition to parliament in 1842

A

Plug plot riots- 1842

19
Q

Which chartist leader believed in moral force

A

William Lovett

20
Q

How many members did the GNCTU have?

A

16,000 members, but collapsed, still seen as a forerunner of modern trade unions

21
Q

What did the Red Army set up in Lublin (Poland)

A

A communist government, despite polish government in London

22
Q

When did the Berlin Blockade start/end?

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Start- June 1948

End- May 1949

23
Q

When was cominform formed and what did it do?

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1947, to coordinate communist parties in europe

24
Q

Which European leaders were removed/expelled from cominform?

A

Gomulka - Poland
Kadar- Hungary
Tito- Yugoslavia

25
Q

What was the soviet response to Marshall aid?

A

Comecon

26
Q

Who was the first leader of the FRG (west)

A

Adenauer- he encouraged NATO membership

27
Q

How many troops invaded Czechoslovakia in 1968?

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200,000 and they imposed martial law

28
Q

Who led solidarity and what was its membership?

A

Lech Walesa and 9 million in the early 1980s

29
Q

Who was the leader of the GDR in the 1980s?

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Honecker, he was overthrown in October 1989

30
Q

Who was the leader of Romania in the 1980s and how was he removed from power?

A

Ceausescu, killed on 25th December 1989

31
Q

How much of russia was hit by the 1891 famine

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17 of Russia’s 39 provinces and killed 350,000 people

32
Q

Which tsar created the peasant land bank and when?

A

Alexander III 1833 and land captains in 1889

33
Q

What reform took place to the council of ministers following 1905 revolution?

A

It was the main law-making body

34
Q

How many seats did the Bolsheviks and the SR’s gain in the elections for the constituent assembly?

A

Bolsheviks- 175

SR’s- 370

35
Q

How many troops were sent to deal with the Tambov peasant uprising in 1921?

A

1921- 100,000

36
Q

How many people were sent to gulags under Stalin

A

40 million

37
Q

Who was the leader of the Cheka during the red terror

A

Dzerzhinsky

38
Q

What was the increase in railway by 1901?

A

Rose from 29,183km t 52,612 km

39
Q

What was the annual increase in industrial production under Witte?

A

7.5%

40
Q

When was the treaty of Stan-Setefano do?

A

End of the Russo-Turkish war but was overturned at the congress of Berlin.

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