Industrialisation

Question 1

What are the 4 factors that caused the industrial revolution?

Answer 1

Political, social, economic and cultural

Question 2

Why did an increase in population help the industrial revolution?

Answer 2

Allowed more people to work in factories and created a greater need for new technology

Question 3

What were the 3 phases of industrialisation?

Answer 3

1st phase - pioneered by Britain (1780-1820)
2nd phase - France and some areas of the German states and USA industrialise (1840-1870)
3rd phase - Italy,Japan,Sweden,Austria,Russia and parts of Spain industrialise (1890-1914)

Question 4

What impact did the industrial revolution have on class structure?

Answer 4

Destroyed the old division of society and created a new class, the working class and the growth of the middle class

Question 5

Why would working class families support the idea of children working in mines, mills and factories?

Answer 5

Because it would increase the family income

Question 6

When was the Bank of England established?

Answer 6

1694

Question 7

In 1784 how many banks were in the country?

Answer 7

119

Question 8

In 1808 how many banks were in the country?

Answer 8

800

Question 9

Who were the first recognised bankers?

Answer 9

Goldsmiths

Question 10

In what year was permission to issue bank notes granted?

Answer 10

1797

Question 11

What were the factors that caused the industrial revolution?

Answer 11

Technology,individuals,transport,agriculture,trade networks,population,geography,banking,peace/war, and the slave trade

Question 12

When were the corn laws?

Answer 12

1815

Question 13

When were the game laws?

Answer 13

1815

Question 14

What was the peterloo massacre?

Answer 14

In St. Peter’s fields Manchester 1819, 15-18 people killed and 400 injured

Question 15

When was it allowed for radical political leaders to be arrested?

Answer 15

1794

Question 16

When was the treason act?

Answer 16

1795

Question 17

When was income tax abolished?

Answer 17

1816

Question 18

What did the government impose higher taxes on in 1816?

Answer 18

Goods bought by the lower class

Question 19

When is the suspension of habeas corpus?

Answer 19

1816/1817

Question 20

What does the suspension of habeas corpus mean?

Answer 20

Allows arrest without a trial and imprisonment without a charge

Question 21

What act in 1832 gives local boards of health powers to raise rates for the purpose of putting down cholera?

Answer 21

The cholera act

Question 22

When is a committee of the privy council set up?

Answer 22

1839 - they checked how grants for education were being spent

Question 23

When was the vaccination act introduced?

Answer 23

1840 to vaccinate against smallpox for free

Question 24

When is the royal commission of the health of towns introduced?

Answer 24

1844

Question 25

When is the first public health act?

Answer 25

1848

Question 26

What did the chimney sweep act of 1788 specify?

Answer 26

Minimum age of 8 years old for apprentices (was never enforced)

Question 27

What did the chimney sweep act of 1834 specify?

Answer 27

No apprenticeships below the age of 10. No children under the age of 14 to be engaged in cleaning chimneys

Question 28

What did the 1840 chimney sweep act do?

Answer 28

Raised minimum age of apprenticeship to 16. (Children you ever then 10 were still being made to climb chimneys)

Question 29

When was a successful solution implemented by the chimney sweeps act which required sweeps to be licensed and made it a police duty to enforce all previous legislation?

Answer 29

1875