Industrial

Question 1

What century was the industrial period ?

Answer 1

1700-1900

Question 2

What did the population of England rise to in industrial England?

Answer 2

40 million

Question 3

Give two reasons for an increase in highway robbery

Answer 3

No banks, growth travel between isolated places gives opportunity, cheap handguns

Question 4

Give two reasons for a decrease in highway robbery

Answer 4

Banks created,
GPs refuse licenses to pubs caught selling stolen goods,
Policing improved

Question 5

Who was the most famous highway robber

Answer 5

Dick Turpin

Question 6

Why does smuggling increase in industrial period?

Answer 6

More goods taxed,
Gangs ,
More opportunity

Question 7

Who was the violent smuggling gang in industrial England?

Answer 7

Hawkhurst gang

Question 8

Why was smuggling difficult to stop?

Answer 8

Social crime,
Open coastline difficult to catch smugglers

Question 9

What laws were passed against poaching in industrial period?

Answer 9

Black act

Question 10

What did the black act do?

Answer 10

Stopped people poaching in industrial England

Question 11

Define the bloody code

Answer 11

225 crimes punishable by death

Question 12

Why was the bloody code introduced?

Answer 12

Rising in crime,
Printing press ,
Rich were in charge of laws and had more property they wanted to protect ,
Traditional attitude that harsh punishment needed to deter

Question 13

Why did the bloody code and

Answer 13

Didn’t deter,
Changing attitudes meant hanging for all crimes seem wrong ,
Public execution led to crime 

Question 14

The invention of what meant information was spread more easily, meaning people found out about crimes

Answer 14

Printing press

Question 15

Where were People transported to in the industrial period?

Answer 15

Australia

Question 16

How many people were transported in industrial period

Answer 16

164,000

Question 17

Give two reasons, transportation ended in 1864

Answer 17

Gold discovered in Australia,
Was expensive,
Prison preferred

Question 18

How many people were in prison in 1770?

Answer 18

4000

Question 19

Why did numbers in prison increase in industrial prisons?

Answer 19

Used more as other punishments ended,
Attitudes changed to believe punishment should reform

Question 20

Give three problems with prisons in 1800

Answer 20

Dirty, warden is not paid, all criminals together, no doctors

Question 21

Give two people who campaigned for changes to prisons in the industrial period

Answer 21

Elizabeth Fry and John Howard

Question 22

Which Home Secretary created the police force and the goals act

Answer 22

Robert Peel

Question 23

In what year was the first professional police force created?

Answer 23

1829

Question 24

What force was set up by Henry and John Fielding

Answer 24

Bow street runners

Question 25

Give two reasons why Britain got its first police force

Answer 25

Rising crime,
population increase,
board methods, didn’t work,
bow street runners successful

Question 26

Give two changes, the goals act made

Answer 26

Clean prisons,
Separated prisoners,
Doctors,
Wardens paid

Question 27

What was the name of the Proto type prison built in 1842

Answer 27

Pentonville

Question 28

Describe the separate system

Answer 28

Prisoners kept separate all day,
No shared cells

Question 29

What was the problem with separate system?

Answer 29

Caused mental illness

Question 30

What was the silent system?

Answer 30

Prisoners not allowed to communicate or see each other

Question 31

What act introduced hard labour into prisons in 1865

Answer 31

Prisons act

Question 32

Give two examples of hard labour

Answer 32

Picking Oakham,
Crank,
Treadmill