industrialisation and protest

Question 1

What was the great exhibition?

Answer 1

A showcase of how much the industrial revolution changed britain. No dogs, refreshment rooms and filtered water.

Question 2

How many people were there to each house in the early 1800’s?

Answer 2

7 people to each house and 4 to one bed.

Question 3

What was the ratio of cleaners to toilets in the early 1800’s?

Answer 3

12 people were employed to clean 70,000 peoples toilets.

Question 4

When was the first sewer put in place?

Answer 4

1853

Question 5

How much money was spent on sewers after 1853?

Answer 5

£3 million

Question 6

When was the first cholera outbreak and how many people did it kill?

Answer 6

In 1831 and killed 32,000

Question 7

When were the Luddites?

Answer 7

1811-1816

Question 8

What did the Luddites do?

Answer 8

Destroyed machinery as they believed it threatened their jobs.

Question 9

How did the luddites start?

Answer 9

Began in Nottingham when two handloom weavers burnt a mill and destroyed machinery.

Question 10

Since when had machine breaking been illegal?

Answer 10

1721

Question 11

What was the frame breaking act?

Answer 11

1812- made destroying machinery punishable by death.

Question 12

What happened to the luddites?

Answer 12

People found guilty were transported or executed.

Question 13

When were the spa field riots?

Answer 13

1816

Question 14

Where were the spa field riots?

Answer 14

Spa Field, Islington, London

Question 15

How many people attended the first spa field riot?

Answer 15

10,000

Question 16

How many people attended the second spa field riot?

Answer 16

20,000

Question 17

Who carried out a violent act and robbed a gun shop?

Answer 17

James Watson

Question 18

How did the government respond to the Spa field riots?

Answer 18

The Gagging Act 1817 and The Sedetious meeting Act 1817

Question 19

When were the Blanketeers?

Answer 19

1817

Question 20

Who were the Blanketeers?

Answer 20

5000 Lancashire weavers

Question 21

Where did the blanketeers take place?

Answer 21

St Peters Field, Manchester

Question 22

What were the blanketeers protesting about?

Answer 22

Poor working conditions and poor pay (they only earned 5 shillings a week)

Question 23

How did the government respond to the blanketeers?

Answer 23

The Calvery broke the meeting up and arrested 27 people

Question 24

When were the Pentrich risings?

Answer 24

1817

Question 25

When were the swing riots?

Answer 25

1830

Question 26

What were the swing riots about?

Answer 26

They were opposing the mechanisation of the agricultural industry.

Question 27

How did the swing riots movement begin?

Answer 27

The destruction of threshing machinery in the South.

Question 28

How did the government respond to the swing riots?

Answer 28

2000 awaited trial- 19 were executed and 500 were transported.

Question 29

When were the Rebecca riots?

Answer 29

1839-1843

Question 30

What caused the Rebecca riots?

Answer 30

Unfair taxation for farmers- farmers transported crops via toll roads making it very expensive

Question 31

When was the Peterloo Massacre?

Answer 31

1819

Question 32

What caused the peterloo massacre?

Answer 32

There was high unemployment, especially because of the returning soldiers from the Napoleonic wars

Question 33

Where was the Peterloo Massacre?

Answer 33

St peters field, Manchester

Question 34

How did the government respond to the meeting in St Peters field?

Answer 34

Sent in the calvery, Killing 15 and injuring 400 people.

Question 35

Who was Lord shaftesbury?

Answer 35

An MP who tried to improve childrens lives an in 1833 proposed a 10-hour day for children.

Question 36

Who was Robert Owen?

Answer 36

He ran a textile mill in New Lanark

Question 37

What did Robert Owen do?

Answer 37

Published magazines and speeches about improving working conditions. He pushed for the 1819 factory act.

Question 38

What did William Cobbet do?

Answer 38

He wanted political equality and and published his ideas in cheap newspapers.

Question 39

When was Habeas Corpus suspended?

Answer 39

1817

Question 40

When was income tax abolished?

Answer 40

1816

Question 41

What did Adam Smith argue?

Answer 41

Children had always been employed in the domestic system and that child working conditions were exaggerated.

Question 42

What did Titus Salt argue?

Answer 42

That it was better for children to work in a factory than freeze and starve to death.

Question 43

When was the health of towns association established?

Answer 43

1844

Question 44

What did the health of towns association do?

Answer 44

Apllied pressure to the administration to introduce a public health act.

Question 45

When was the first public health act?

Answer 45

1848

Question 46

What did the 1848 public health act do?

Answer 46

The central board of health was introduced to oversee local improvements, they ensured clean flowwing water, drainage and sewerage and the cleaning of streets.

Question 47

When was the first burial act?

Answer 47

1852

Question 48

What did the Burial act do?

Answer 48

There was a creation of public cemeteries.

Question 49

When was the sanitary act?

Answer 49

1866

Question 50

What was the Sanitary Act?

Answer 50

Made sanitation inspections compulsory for local coorperations.

Question 51

When was back to back housing made illegal?

Answer 51

1844

Question 52

Who wrote a book on the link between sanitation and cholera?

Answer 52

Henry Golton