Liberal Reforms

Question 1

What year did the liberal government come in to power?

Answer 1

1906

Question 2

What year did the child act come in to place?

Answer 2

1908

Question 3

What year did poor children get free school meals?

Answer 3

1906

Question 4

What year did school inspections come into place?

Answer 4

1907

Question 5

What year did juvenile courts and borstals for young law breakers come in to place?

Answer 5

1908

Question 6

What happened with alcohol and cigarettes?

Answer 6

It was made against the law for anyone to drink or smoke under the age of 16 years old.

Question 7

Who did the government blame for causing crime among young children

Answer 7

They blamed poverty

Question 8

Why did the government believe about sending young law breakers to adult prisons?

Answer 8

It would just teach them how to become better criminals

Question 9

Why did the government introduce the national insurance act?

Answer 9

Because the poor could not afford medical services

Question 10

What was the second part of the national insurance act about? How much were they given? And what was the maximum turn you could receive it for?

Answer 10

Unemployment insurance
35p
Maximum of 15 weeks

Question 11

What year was the old age pension act?

Answer 11

1908

Question 12

What year was the workmen’s compensation act?

Answer 12

1906

Question 13

What year was the coal mines act?

Answer 13

1906

Question 14

What is the max time you could work in a coal mine after the coal mine act?

Answer 14

Max. Of 8 hours a day

Question 15

What year was the trade boards act?

Answer 15

1909

Question 16

What year was the shops act introduced?

Answer 16

1911

Question 17

What did shop assistants get from the shop act?

Answer 17

Weekly half-day holiday

Question 18

What was the max. Hours you could work a week in a shop?

Answer 18

60 hours

Question 19

What was provided in every shop due to the shops act?

Answer 19

Washing facilities

Question 20

Why did the old pensions act not go far enough?

Answer 20

The money was not enough to enable people for everything they need.
It was not the answer to old age poverty
A lot of elderly people needed financial help long before they were 70

Question 21

What year were ALL schools providing school meals

Answer 21

1914

Question 22

What did research show about children during the holiday period?

Answer 22

Their body weight declined

Question 23

What was wrong about the unemployment insurance act?

Answer 23

It only provided enough for the employee and not his family

Question 24

What did the liberal government decide to do when they came into power?

Answer 24

To make a difference

Question 25

What year did school medical inspections become free?

Answer 25

1912

Question 26

What year did the national insurance act come into place?

Answer 26

1911

Question 27

Who did the national insurance act apply to?

Answer 27

For workers earring less that £160 a year

Question 28

What age of people did old age pensions apply to?

Answer 28

People over 70 with a annual income of £21-£81

Question 29

How much more do they get a week for old age pensions?

Answer 29

1-5s pensions per week

Question 30

How many people were receiving old age pensions?

Answer 30

1 million people

Question 31

What was living conditions like for poor people?

Answer 31

Awful. People were malnutrition and disease was wide spread.