Paper 2 Flashcards
When did row tree publish his book on poverty
1901
What was rowbtrees book called?
Poverty:a study of town life
When did John Galt start photographing the poor?
1903
When did the liberals get into power
1906
When was the labour party formed
1900
When did David Lloyd George become chancellor of the exchequer
1908
When did rowbtrees investigate the poor for the liberals
1913
When was the boer war
1899-1902
When was the free school meals act
1906
When was the school medical service act?
1907
When was the children and young persons act
1908
When was the old age pensioners act
1908
When was the development of the labour exchanges
1909
When was the national insurance act
1911
When was the unemployment benefits act
1911
When was the women’s property act?
1882
When was the women’s franchise league campaigning for equality
1889
What were the women’s franchise campaigning for equality in
Marriage divorce inheritance and child custody
When was the free compulsory school act?
1891
Who was the 1989 school act for
Children from a working class aged up to 12
When was the parish council act
1894
When was booths investigation into the poor
1989
When did the factory act ban children under 11 from working?
1896
When were the suffragists formed
1897
What was the other name for the suffragists
National union of women’s suffrage society
When were the suffragettes formed
1903
What was another name for the suffragettes
The women’s social and political union or wspu
When’s did the wspu start direct action
1908
When was the conciliation bill dropped
1911
When was the act to prevent hunger strikes
1913
When did Emily Davison throw herself in front of the horse
Wed 4th June 1913
When did ww1 start
28th July 1914
When did the government set up female factories
1916
What was the defecit of workers in 1916
2 million
When was the representation of the people act?
1917
When were the WACC formed
1918
When were women over 30 allowed to vote
1918
When was the first female mp
1919
Who was the first female mp
Nancy Astor
When were all women given to he right to vote?
1928
When was Dora introduced
8 august 1914
When was the first bombing of co villains
16 th November 1914
Where was the first bombing and how many died
Scarborough 1914 119
When was the munitions crisis
July 1915
When was the first military service bill
15th jan 1916
When was the second military conscription bill
16th may 1916
When did the Somme start
1st July 1916
When was the Somme called off
18th November 1916
When did david Lloyd George become prime mminister
7th December 1916
When was the ministry of food and the ministry of labour created
1916
When did Dora seize land for farming
April 1917
When was voluntary rationing introduced
Nov 1917
When was compulsory rationing introduced
25th February 1918
How much land did Dora seize
2.5 mill acres
When was rationing for the whole country of meat butter and cheese
April 1918
What percent of people lived under the poverty line in Britain during the early 1900s
31%
What were the terms of the OAP act
All people over 70 recieved 5s a week and couples received 7s 6d
How many kids recieved a free school meal by 1914
150,000
How much money would a worker get as suck pay and for how long
10s for 13 weeks
How much would an unemployed worker get
7s6d per week
How many jobs were being found per day by the labour exchange
3,000 by 1913
Name 3 arguments for female suffrage
Improve life for all women by making them equal
Women paid the same tax as men and should have a say on how it was used
It worked in other countries
What were the arguments against female suffrage
Women had different responsibilities than women
Women didn’t fight in wars so they shouldn’t have a say in them
Women were irrational
How many members did the suffragists have by 1914
100,000
How many leaflets were in circulation from the suffragists by 1914
40,000
How many women took on engineering jobs
800,000
How many women worked on farms
260,000
How large was Britons army compared to Germany’s
We had 300,000 they had 2.5 million
When was the workers strike and how many went on strike
1916 230,000
How many working days had the workers lost by 1918
6million
