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Fact Test 6 Flashcards

1
Q

What did the King intervene to stop?

A

The passing of Fox/North’s India Bill, bringing Pitt to power in 1783

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2
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What did Pitt do to gain supporters?

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Delayed the election until march 1784- especially to gain Northites

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3
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Where did Pitt win well?

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Large constituencies such as Middlesex and Yorkshire where bribes were ineffective

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4
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What are examples of loyalist groups who supported Pitt

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Church & King clubs and Reeves Associations

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5
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Who was the guest speaker at spa fields 1816?

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1816- Henry Hunt in his famous white top hat

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6
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Who stirred up the town beforehand and attacked the tower

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Dr Watson and his son who were both spenceans

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7
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Who was the leader of the Pentrich Uprising?

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Jeremiah Brandreth

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8
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What did peel become in the 1822 cabinet reshuffle

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1822- Home Secretary

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9
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What did Huskisson become in the 1822 cabinet reshuffle

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1822- president of the board of trade

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10
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How many capital punishments were from the statute when peel was Home Secretary

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180

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11
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When did peel become prime minister for the second time?

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1841, with a big majority of the Whigs

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12
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What was Peel’s victory seen as?

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A transition to conservatism

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13
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Election data showed that who supported Pitt?

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traditional tories (landowners, not the new middle class)

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14
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Who were the leaders of the ACLL

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Cobden and bright, mainly industrialists

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15
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What did the ACLL use new tactics for?

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To raise funds, buy elections, use propaganda

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16
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What did the ACLL buy to gain votes and support in parliament?

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Property worth £250 million

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17
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When did Peel repeal the Corn Laws?

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1846, citing the Irish Famine as the main reason

18
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What monster meeting did Peel close?

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Clontarf, which was organised by the repeal association

19
Q

What did the Devon Commission’s report say?

A

Tenants should have compensation on property- peel supported this.

20
Q

How much money did Peel give the Maynooth seminary for priests

A

One off payment of £30,000 and annual payments of £26,000

21
Q

How many people had fled from GDR between 1945- 1961?

A

1/6 of GDR population- about 3 million people

22
Q

What did Khrushchev give the west in Nov 1958?

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1958- an ultimatum, suggesting a separate peace treaty with GDR

23
Q

At what was an agreement failed to be made over the future of Berlin?

A

The 1959 Geneva Conference

24
Q

Which leader was determined for Germany not to become a neutral state.

A

Adenauer, the leader of the FRG

25
Q

What did the shooting down of the U2 spy plane stop.

A

The Paris peace summit.

26
Q

What did Khrushchev reluctantly do in 1961?

A

1961 - built the Berlin Wall

27
Q

Who began the policy of Ostpolitik?

A

Willy Brandt in the 1970s

28
Q

What did Brandt abandon?

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The Hallstein Doctrine, recognising the GDR as a separate state.

29
Q

What improved East-West links?

A

The accepted Oder-Neisse border of Poland and the 1972 basic treaty

30
Q

Who was the leader of solidarity and when was it formed?

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Lech Walesa, formed at Gdansk Shipyards 1979

31
Q

Who was Alexander II’s liberal minister?

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Nicholas Milyutin- he led the emancipation of the Serfs

32
Q

How many serfs were freed

A

23 million

33
Q

What were peasants still tied to following the emancipation?

A

The Mir

34
Q

How long did redemption payments last for?

A

49 years with an interest rate of 6%

35
Q

How many riots did the ministry of the interior report in 1861?

A

647 in first 4 months

1159 in whole year

36
Q

Who was the first leader of the provisional government?

A

Prince Lvov

37
Q

Why did Milyukov resign in March 1917?

A

March 1917- because of his war note, suggesting an expansionist war

38
Q

Who wrote one day in the life of Ivan Denisovich ?

A

Solzhenitsyn it is about life in Stalin’s Gulags

39
Q

How many people were released from the Gulags in 1956-7

A

7-8 million

40
Q

What was dissolved in 1956?

A

Cominform- making a step towards ‘peaceful coexistence’ with the west

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