Fact Test 4

Question 1

What was the voting qualification before the GRA?

Answer 1

Had to own property with a rental value of 40 shillings

Question 2

What did Pitt present himself as?

Answer 2

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

Question 3

What did Pitt deliberately not do to his cabinet?

Answer 3

Put in heavyweights such as Shelbourne or Jenkinson

Question 4

What was the national debt in 1783?

Answer 4

£250 million, a rise of 91%

Question 5

Who led the London Corresponding Society? (LCS)

Answer 5

Hardy and Place they were known radicals

Question 6

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

Answer 6

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

Question 7

When was the march of the blanketeers and what happened?

Answer 7

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

Question 8

What did the reciprocity of duties act do?

Answer 8

Made trade deals with Prussia, Sweden and Denmark

Question 9

The death of George IV triggered what?

Answer 9

An election in 1830, focused on reform.

Question 10

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

Answer 10

12 killed in riots in Bristol

Nottingham castle burnt

Question 11

What did peel support in opposition?

Answer 11

The Municipal Corporations Act 1835

Question 12

How many MPs did the conservatives gain under Peel?

Answer 12

100 in 1835 election

40 more in 1837

Question 13

What did Bonham’s Carlton Club do?

Answer 13

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

Question 14

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

Answer 14

44 seats

Question 15

What did the 1841 budget do?

Answer 15

Import duty reduced on 750 out of 1,200 products

Question 16

What did the 1842 Mines act do?

Answer 16

Stopped girls, women and boys under 10 working underground

Question 17

What did peel call the ten hour movement

Answer 17

An income tax on the poor

Question 18

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

Answer 18

Plug plot riots- 1842

Question 19

Which chartist leader believed in moral force

Answer 19

William Lovett

Question 20

How many members did the GNCTU have?

Answer 20

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

Question 21

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

Answer 21

A communist government, despite polish government in London

Question 22

When did the Berlin Blockade start/end?

Answer 22

Start- June 1948

End- May 1949

Question 23

When was cominform formed and what did it do?

Answer 23

1947, to coordinate communist parties in europe

Question 24

Which European leaders were removed/expelled from cominform?

Answer 24

Gomulka - Poland
Kadar- Hungary
Tito- Yugoslavia

Question 25

What was the soviet response to Marshall aid?

Answer 25

Comecon

Question 26

Who was the first leader of the FRG (west)

Answer 26

Adenauer- he encouraged NATO membership

Question 27

How many troops invaded Czechoslovakia in 1968?

Answer 27

200,000 and they imposed martial law

Question 28

Who led solidarity and what was its membership?

Answer 28

Lech Walesa and 9 million in the early 1980s

Question 29

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

Answer 29

Honecker, he was overthrown in October 1989

Question 30

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

Answer 30

Ceausescu, killed on 25th December 1989

Question 31

How much of russia was hit by the 1891 famine

Answer 31

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

Question 32

Which tsar created the peasant land bank and when?

Answer 32

Alexander III 1833 and land captains in 1889

Question 33

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

Answer 33

It was the main law-making body

Question 34

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

Answer 34

Bolsheviks- 175 | SR's- 370

Question 35

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

Answer 35

1921- 100,000

Question 36

How many people were sent to gulags under Stalin

Answer 36

40 million

Question 37

Who was the leader of the Cheka during the red terror

Answer 37

Dzerzhinsky

Question 38

What was the increase in railway by 1901?

Answer 38

Rose from 29,183km t 52,612 km

Question 39

What was the annual increase in industrial production under Witte?

Answer 39

7.5%

Question 40

When was the treaty of Stan-Setefano do?

Answer 40

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