Paper 2: Liberal Reforms

Question 1

Making clothes stuffing mattresses and making match boxes are all examples of what 1890s industry?

Answer 1

Sweated industry

Question 2

Where did poor people have to go if they needed help?

Answer 2

Charity, workhouse

Question 3

What were you labelled if you received relief?

Answer 3

Pauper

Question 4

Which monarch died in 1901?

Answer 4

Victoria

Question 5

Which charity was set up to help children in 1867?

Answer 5

Barnados

Question 6

What percentage of old people received relief in the 1890s?

Answer 6

30-40%

Question 7

What organisation was started by the Booths?

Answer 7

Salvation Army

Question 8

Which city did Charles Booth investigate poverty in?

Answer 8

London

Question 9

How long was his investigation?

Answer 9

1886-1903 (17 years)

Question 10

What percentage of York did Rowntree find was living in poverty?

Answer 10

28%

Question 11

Who photographed the East End to raise the plight of the poor?

Answer 11

John Galt

Question 12

Which party are Socialist?

Answer 12

Labour

Question 13

Who believes in Laissez Faire?

Answer 13

Conservatives

Question 14

Name a Conservative newspaper

Answer 14

Times

Question 15

Which two countries had overtaken GB industrially by 1900?

Answer 15

Germany and USA

Question 16

Name two New Liberals

Answer 16

Lloyd George and Churchill

Question 17

Which war highlighted the weakness of the British army?

Answer 17

Boer War

Question 18

When was the Labour party formed?

Answer 18

1900

Question 19

What percentage of the wealth was owned by the top 1% of the population?

Answer 19

55%

Question 20

When were free school meals introduced?

Answer 20

1906

Question 21

When were pensions started?

Answer 21

Jan 1st 1909 (passed in 1908)

Question 22

When were school medical inspections introduced?

Answer 22

1907

Question 23

What % of places in secondary school were reserved for poor children in the 1907 Education Act?

Answer 23

25%

Question 24

How many people claimed pensions in the first year?

Answer 24

650000

Question 25

How many children claimed free school meals?

Answer 25

158000

Question 26

How much did workers pay towards National Insurance against sickness?

Answer 26

4d

Question 27

How much were pensions worth in 1909?

Answer 27

5s or 7s 6d for couple

Question 28

How old did you have to be to get a pension?

Answer 28

70

Question 29

When were school clinics introduced?

Answer 29

1912

Question 30

How many labour exchanges were set up by 1914?

Answer 30

400

Question 31

What did the Trade Boards Act do?

Answer 31

1909 Minimum wages for sweated industry

Question 32

How many people were covered by National Insurance part 2?

Answer 32

2.25 million

Question 33

Who objected to the 1909 people’s budget?

Answer 33

House of Lords

Question 34

Who toured the country gaining support for the budget?

Answer 34

Lloyd George

Question 35

Who was prime minster from 1908-1916?

Answer 35

Asquith

Question 36

What job did Lloyd George have for most of our period of study?

Answer 36

Chancellor of the Exchequer

Question 37

Conservatives believed that the reforms would turn Britain into what?

Answer 37

Nanny State

Question 38

Give 2 changes Labour would have made to take the reforms further.

Answer 38

Lower age of pensions, no contributions for poor in National Insurance, higher taxes on rich