HCHS Britain: A LEVEL UNIT 1 - poverty and poor laws

Question 1

Which newspaper criticised the PLAA and name the editor?

Answer 1

The Times and John Walter

Question 2

Between 1802-03 what percentage of the north and south received relief?

Answer 2

10% and 23%

Question 3

Which organisation inspected workhouses after the Andover scandal?

Answer 3

Workhouse Visiting Society

Question 4

How many parishes were there under the Old Poor Law?

Answer 4

15,000

Question 5

In the PLAA, which organisation looked over the new act and how many members were there?

Answer 5

Poor Law Commission, 3 commissioners and 9 assistants

Question 6

Name two collectivists

Answer 6

Owen and Paine

Question 7

By 1862, how much did it cost to keep a pauper in a workhouse compared to giving outdoor relief?

Answer 7

4s8d compared to 2s3d

Question 8

How many soldiers returned home at the end of the Napoleonic Wars?

Answer 8

400,000

Question 9

When was the Andover workhouse scandal and who was the master?

Answer 9

1845 and M’Dougal

Question 10

Which Old Poor Law introduced workhouses and when?

Answer 10

Knatchbull’s Act, 1722

Question 11

Who wrote Mary Barton and in which year?

Answer 11

Elizabeth Gaskill in 1848

Question 12

Which charity was set up to determine deserving and undeserving poor and when?

Answer 12

Charity Organisation Society, 1869

Question 13

Name two utilitarians

Answer 13

Chadwick and Bentham

Question 14

What attitude towards the poor was lost at the beginning of the 18th century?

Answer 14

Paternalistic

Question 15

How much did it cost to open a workhouse in Banbury after the PLAA?

Answer 15

£6,200

Question 16

Under the Old Poor Law, who handed out relief?

Answer 16

Overseers

Question 17

Which two people organised the Royal Commission?

Answer 17

Edwin Chadwick and Nassau Senior

Question 18

Who founded a hostel for poor women who had turned to prostitution in the 1850s?

Answer 18

Angela Burdett-Coutts

Question 19

Which Old Poor Law topped up agricultural labourers’ wages and to a value of what?

Answer 19

Speenhamland System, 3 loaves of bread

Question 20

Which book did Samuel Smiles publish and how many copies were sold?

Answer 20

Self Help and 250,000

Question 21

When was Oliver Twist serialised?

Answer 21

1837-39

Question 22

What percentage of Royal Commission questionnaires were returned?

Answer 22

10%

Question 23

From 1815-33, what percentage of GNP was spent on poor relief?

Answer 23

2%

Question 24

Give two examples of problems at the Andover workhouse.

Answer 24

Starvation, abuse, flogging, yellow stripes, bone marrow eating etc.

Question 25

Name two individualists

Answer 25

Malthus, Ricardo, Townsend

Question 26

What did Gilbert’s Act allow parishes to do?

Answer 26

Club together to share the cost of a workhouse

Question 27

Which act provided medical facilities for paupers and when?

Answer 27

Metropolitan Poor Act, 1867

Question 28

How much did poor relief cost from 1814-1818?

Answer 28

£6.4 million

Question 29

Where was there another workhouse scandal following Andover and when?

Answer 29

Huddersfield, 1848

Question 30

By 1776, how many poorhouses were there with how many inmates in each?

Answer 30

2000 and 20-50