Fact Test 7

Question 1

When did Pitt declare war on France?

Answer 1

1793

Question 2

How many naval vessels did Britain have compared to France in 1793?

Answer 2

GB-661

FR- 291

Question 3

What did the quota acts do?

Answer 3

Brought recruits although it did cause major mutinies in 1797

Question 4

Where was British naval superiority seen in defeat?

Answer 4

Egypt, Copenhagen and most famously trafalgar

Question 5

When was the March of the blanketeers and when did it happen?

Answer 5

March 1816, it failed to get beyokg 7 miles and was quickly suppressed.

Question 6

What did the spenceans lead?

Answer 6

The Cato Street Conspiracy which aimed to destroy the government

Question 7

How did the government deal with the queen Caroline affair?

Answer 7

They paid her off and then £50,000 but the event nearly toppled them.

Question 8

Who led the catholic association

Answer 8

Daniel o Connell he also won the bi-election in County Clare 1828

Question 9

How many troops did wellington believe it would take to keep Ireland under control?

Answer 9

25,000

Question 10

What was banned when catholic emancipation was passed

Answer 10

The catholic association

Question 11

What was the property qualification raised to in Ireland?

Answer 11

£10 meaning that 80,000 lost the right to vote

Question 12

What did the poor law amandment act do in 1834?

Answer 12

1834- brought in uniform workhouses

Question 13

Who was the lead poor law commissioner?

Answer 13

Chadwick- he urged for consistency across the country

Question 14

What did the poor call the workhouses?

Answer 14

Bastilles- because they opposed them

Question 15

What forms of opposition were there to the poor law?

Answer 15

Writers such as dickens and the anti poor law movement

Question 16

Who led the anti poor law movement

Answer 16

Fielder and oastler. Plus links to chartist leadership

Question 17

Where did the anti poor law movement have success?

Answer 17

In northern towns but it never became nationwide

Question 18

What caused scandal in 1848?

Answer 18

1848- Andover workhouse was investigated!

Question 19

Who led the Chartists

Answer 19

Lovett and fergus o Conner

Question 20

What did the chartist leaders believe in

Answer 20

Moral force- Lovett

Physical force- o Conner

Question 21

What was the chartist newspaper and what was it’s weekly circulation?

Answer 21

The northern star and 50,000 it was run by o Conner

Question 22

When did Truman tell Stalin about the atomic bomb?

Answer 22

At Potsdam July/August 1945

Question 23

What did the news of the atomic bomb spur Stalin into?

Answer 23

The start of an arms race

Question 24

How many Germans were expelled when the oder Neisse line (Poland’s western border) was moved?

Answer 24

5 million

Question 25

When did Churchill make the iron curtain speech?

Answer 25

March 1946- with Truman’s backing

Question 26

When did czechoslovakia fall to communism?

Answer 26

1948- later than other Eastern European countries

Question 27

What did the fall of czechoslovakia influence?

Answer 27

US senate to agree to Marshall aid and encouraged French engagement

Question 28

When was the East German uprising and why were they protesting?

Answer 28

June 1953- protesting against wage cuts and high targets

Question 29

How many were arrested and executed following the 1953 June uprising

Answer 29

25,000 arrested | 400 executed

Question 30

What did the uprising help with?

Answer 30

Adenauer winning elections in west Germany and joining NATO

Question 31

What happened when demonstrations broke out in Poland in 1956?

Answer 31

Khrushchev allowed golmulka to return as leader

Question 32

Who were the leaders of the populists or narodniks?

Answer 32

Chernyshevsky and lavrov

Question 33

Who wrote “what is to be done?”

Answer 33

Chernyshevsky in 1863 with simplistic message of aims

Question 34

What did the going to the people campaign 1873-1874 do?

Answer 34

1873-1874 had 4000 students go to the countryside

Question 35

Who took control of education from zemstva

Answer 35

Dimitri Tolstoy- with a firm control over curriculum

Question 36

What did the Duma announce about education?

Answer 36

A plan for universal primary education by 1922

Question 37

How many children were in primary education in 1929 and 1930

Answer 37

1929- 8 million | 1930- 30 million

Question 38

Who led the great spurt in the economy in the 1890s

Answer 38

Witte

Question 39

How did witte boost investment

Answer 39

Using foreign loans, raised taxes and higher interest rates to boost capital for investment

Question 40

What gave investors confidence in 1897?

Answer 40

The Russian rouble was placed on the gold standard in 1897

Question 41

What was the income from industry in 1893 and 1897

Answer 41

1893- 42 million roubles | 1897- 161 million roubles