GB's 30 000 acts wtf

Question 1

Reform Act of 1832

Answer 1

• The Reform Act of 1832 enlarged the electorate by 60%

Representation was redistributed to more accurately reflect the changes wrought by the industrial revolution.

Question 2

Benjamin Disraeli’s 1867 Reform Act

Answer 2

• It expanded the franchise from less than 1 million voters to over 2 million voters

Now male householders in cities and renters who paid 10 euros could vote

• It redistributed seats in the House of Commons
• It transformed mass politics in Britain as now the voters are of a more diverse class and population

Question 3

William Gladstone’s 1884 Reform Act

Answer 3

• Extended the voting qualifications from the boroughs to the countryside, reaching the rural working class

Question 4

labour reform in 1872

Answer 4

Coalmines were required to provide safety measures (ventilators and safety lamps)

Question 5

• limited the work of women and young persons (aged 13–18) in textile mills to ten hours a day for five days in the week and eight hours on Saturday

Answer 5

• limited the work of women and young persons (aged 13–18) in textile mills to ten hours a day for five days in the week and eight hours on Saturday
• Extended to all workers in 1874
• By 1878, holidays and shorter working weeks were more common

Question 6

Local Government Act 1871

Answer 6

Local Government Act made government control of Public Health issues more efficient

Question 7

Health care — Act of 1875

Answer 7

tasked local governments to:

• Provide clean water
• Police the food supply
• Report cases of infectious disease

Question 8

Budget of 1909/War Budget

Answer 8

To pay for the new social welfare programs, Liberals PM’s Hebert Asquith and David Lloyd George proposed a “progressive income tax”.

legislation that included old-age pensions, right to strike, workers compensation, minimum wages.

This lead to the Act of Parliament – 1911 which further “democratized” govt. in England.

Question 9

Parliament Act 1911

Answer 9

said that the Senate could not alter $$$ bills or stall any bill for more than two years.

included an amendment that would for the first time pay MP’s a salary.

Now House of Lords can’t stop legislation!

Question 10

the penal laws

Answer 10

oppressed the Catholic majority

tried to get them to accept the church of ireland

Question 11

The act of Union (1800)

Answer 11

deprived the Irish of home rule, but granted them representation in both houses of the British parliament

Question 12

Irish Land Act — 1870

Answer 12

• attempted to protect tenants from eviction
• required them to be paid compensation in certain cases and providing limited loans to those who wished to purchase their land

Question 13

Home Rule for Ireland

Answer 13

establish an Irish Parliament in Dublin under a similar structure that had governed CANADA

Question 14

Government of Ireland’ Act of 1920

Answer 14

created two moderately self-governing units.

The nine Protestant counties of Ulster formed one of these groups (later becoming known as Northern Ireland) while the others combined with the twenty-three other counties merged into Ireland.

Question 15

Ballot Act of 1872

Answer 15

• eliminated “oral” voting

- greatly reduced intimidation, bribery, corruption in elections.

Question 16

Reform in 1918

Answer 16

all property and resident qualifications removed from vote.**

Question 17

• women over 30 yrs of age

Answer 17

made public elementary education accessible to all.

Question 18

Forward Policy

Answer 18

foreign policies where if people wanna get new land, they also conquer buffer states

Question 19

Corn Laws

Answer 19

• Formation of Liberal Party 1859 in June of 1859