Liverpool Test

Question 1

Which group attacked mills and broke machinery?

Answer 1

The Luddites

Question 2

Which unpopular government policy protected domestic wheat prices?

Answer 2

The Corn law

Question 3

When was the Corn Law passed?

Answer 3

1815

Question 4

When was the Corn Law amended to a sliding scale?

Answer 4

1828

Question 5

What caused a sharp increase in the supply of labour leading to unemployment?

Answer 5

Demobilisation/ peace with France

Question 6

What was the name of Cartwright’s clubs which campaigned for all-male suffrage?

Answer 6

The Hampden Clubs

Question 7

Which radical was nicknamed ‘orator’ and spoke at many mass meetings?

Answer 7

Henry Hunt

Question 8

What was the mass meeting that ended in riots Dec 1816?

Answer 8

The Spa Field Riots

Question 9

Who was the Spencean radical who led a group to the Tower of London?

Answer 9

Arthur Thistlewood

Question 10

Who was the editor of the Political Register?

Answer 10

Cobett

Question 11

What was the Political Register nicknamed?

Answer 11

Two penny trash

Question 12

Which government spy was an agent provocateur in the Derbyshire Insurrection?

Answer 12

Oliver the spy

Question 13

What March started at St Peter’s fields in 1817?

Answer 13

The March of the Blanketeers

Question 14

What name was given to the meeting at St Peter’s fields near Manchester in 1819

Answer 14

The Peterloo Massacre

Question 15

When did Liverpool first suspend the Habeus Corpus?

Answer 15

1817

Question 16

What is the collective name for the acts passed in 1819?

Answer 16

The Six Acts

Question 17

What was the revolutionary plot of 1820?

Answer 17

The Cato Street Conspiracy

Question 18

When did Liverpool’s cabinet undergo a significant change?

Answer 18

1822, after death of Castlereagh

Question 19

Who replaced Sidmouth as Home Secretary?

Answer 19

Robert Peel

Question 20

Which punishment was removed for relatively trivial offences in 1823?

Answer 20

The death penalty

Question 21

What act legislated on prisons in 1823?

Answer 21

The Gaols Act

Question 22

When was a London police force established?

Answer 22

1829

Question 23

What was the maximum import duty set at by Huskisson?

Answer 23

30%

Question 24

In which region of the world in particular did Huskisson encourage trade?

Answer 24

South America, former Spanish colonies

Question 25

How much did customs revenue increase from 1821-27?

Answer 25

64%

Question 26

After the banking crisis of 1825, what was the minimum paper currency allowed?

Answer 26

£5

Question 27

What Pittite acts were repealed in 1824?

Answer 27

The Combinations Acts

Question 28

Who proposed the repeal of the Test and Corporations Acts?

Answer 28

Lord John Russel, leading Whig; not a government policy

Question 29

What controversial act was finally passed in 1829, splitting the Tory party in the process?

Answer 29

Catholic Emancipation

Question 30

When did war with France end

Answer 30

1815