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When were the Combination Acts passed?

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1799/1800

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In what year did the Luddite protest start?

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1811

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In what areas did the Luddite protests take place?

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Nottingham, and the north of England

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How did the government respond to the Luddite protest?

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Brought in the Frame Breaking Act of 1812

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What was the name of the mythical leader of the Luddites?

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Ned Ludd

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What was the motivation of the Luddites?

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handloom workers whose jobs were being replaced by steam-powered looms

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How long did the Luddite protest last?

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6 Years

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What extreme action happened a year after the Luddites began?

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An outspoken anti-Luddite mill owner, William Horsfall was shot dead outside Huddersfield

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When did the Swing Riots take place?

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1830-1831

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What was the difference between the Luddite and the Swing Riots?

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Industrial versus agrarian protest

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Give 5 reasons for the outbreak of the Swing Riots

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Poor harvests in the late 1820s, introduction of the threshing machine, winter unemployment as a result of the new machine, poverty, hunger

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Why did the Swing Riots shock the government? Give 4 reasons.

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Because in times past agricultural workers were seen as docile and not liable to riot, they employed the same tactics as the industrial workers/Luddites, fear of revolution, landed gentry and their role in parliament

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What action did the Swing rioters take?

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threatening letters, signed Captain Swing, hayricks burned, intimidation, breaking of threshing machines

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What is interesting about the reaction to the Swing rioters by local magistrates?

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Often treated with leniency, only 19 executed, a degree of sympathy with the rioters from the local magistrates who tried them

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Who started the 10 Hour Movement?

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Richard Oastler and George Bull

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Give 7 reasons why the 10 Hour Movement was successful?

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. Religious conviction of the organisers
. Single issue politics
. Peaceful petitioning rather than violence
. Long working day e.g. up to 16 hours but often 10-12 hours
. Some mill owners saw the benefits of having a healthy workforce
. Whig MP John Hobhouse had tried to bring in a law in 1825 to limit a working day for children
. Oastler wrote a letter to the Leeds Mercury in 1830

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Name the 2 Tories who took up the cause of the 10 Hour Movement?

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Michael Sadler MP and Lord Ashley Peer

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When did the Pentrich Rising take place?

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1817

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How did unemployed spinners and weavers in Manchester react to their poor situation in 1817?

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Blanketeers arranged a march to London to take a petition to the Prince Regent.

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How did the government respond to the wave of early 19th Century protest?

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transportation, spies, extreme punishment, hanging

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What were the 6 parts of the Six Acts?

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speedy trials, increased penalties for seditious libel, stamp duty imposed on all magazines, public meetings limited, training of people to use firearms prohibited, magistrates given increased power to search properties

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Why was the Suspension of Habeas Corpus an extreme move for the government?

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Suspension of Habeas Corpus permits arrest without trial and imprisonment without charge

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When was the Suspension of Habeas Corpus?

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1817

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What was the penalty for stealing a rabbit in the Game Laws of 1815?

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Death/execution

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How did the Napoleonic Wars contribute to the problems that working class people faced?

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400,000 soldiers were demobbed and arrived back looking for work

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What happened at the meeting at St Peter’s Fields in Manchester in 1819?

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Sabre charge by yeomanry into the crowd killing 11 and injuring 400

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What was the name of the radical speaker who spoke to the crowds at the event at St Peter’s Fields in Manchester in 1819?

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Henry Hunt

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What nickname was given to the Manchester event in 1819?

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‘Peterloo’ Massacre

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How did the government react to the Manchester event in 1819?

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The government reacted harshly and brought in the Six Acts

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When did the 10 Hour Movement eventually have success?

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1847

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When was the French Revolution?

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1789

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32
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What did the French Revolution mark?

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A period of radical political and societal change

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What caused the French Revolution?

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. Ideas of enlightenment
. High price of bread and food shortages
. Low wages
. Middle class not represented
. High tax

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Reign of terror

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Anyone who objected to revolution would be executed

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What to the French Revolution put an end to?

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The monarchy

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What were the Napoleonic wars?

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Series of the major conflicts with the French Empire vs Europe

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What ended the Napoleonic wars?

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Napoleon was defeated at Waterloo by Prussia + Britain

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When were the Gordon Riots?

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June 1780

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What were the Gordon Riots?

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Several days of rioting in London motivated by anti-Catholic sentiment

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Why did the Gordon Riots begin?

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Protest against Papist Act of 1778 which was intended to reduce official discrimination against British Catholics

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What stopped the Gordon riots?

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Government sent in army resulting in 300-700 death

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What did the Gordon Riots do to Britain’s reputation

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Destroyed it and constitutional monarch was seen as unstable

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What is a Luddite?

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A person opposed to new technology or ways of working

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44
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Who were the Luddite’s?

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Secret oath based organisation of English textile workers

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Why were the luddites protesting?

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Against manufactures
Feared the time spent learning the skills of their craft would be wasted as machines replaced them

46
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How many £ worth of machines and factories did the luddites destroy?

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£100,000

47
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Where was the Pentrich Rising?

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Pentrich, Derbyshire

48
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What did the men expect in the Pentrich

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They marched towards Nottingham expecting to be part of a national uprising to overthrow the government

49
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Why were people angry in the Pentrich Rising?

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Anger and despair at the lack of work, lack of food and the indifference of the government and local authorities to their plight

50
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What factors lead to the Pentrich Rising?

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. Corn laws
. Radical leaders
. French Revolution
. Poor harvests - bread proce
. Extravagant life of Prince Regent
. Suspension of Hague’s Corpus

51
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How were people tricked in the Pentrich Rising?

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Spies working for the government invited the men to march to Nottingham where forces waited to arrest them

52
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What happened to the people in the Pentrich Rising?

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. The leader and two others were hanged
. Others transported
. Some put in prison

53
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Why was the Pentrich uprising weak?

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. Lightly armed with pikes, scythes and a few guns
. Unfocused revolutionary demands e.g. wiping out national debt

54
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When was the Blanketeers demonstration?

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March 1817

55
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Where was the Blanketeer demonstration?

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Manchester

56
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Who made up the Blanketeer demonstration?

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5,000 weavers

57
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What was the intention for the Blanketeer demonstration?

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. For the participants, mainly Lancashire weavers to march to London and petition the Prince Regent over the desperate state of the Lancashire textiles industry
. Protest against the suspension of the Habeus corpus Act

58
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How was the Blanketeer demonstration broken up?

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Violently with its leaders imprisoned

59
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What did Blanketeer demonstration partly culminated?

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The Peterloo Massacre

60
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What did protesters at the Blanketeer demonstration carry?

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Blankets to sleep in and as a symbol of their trade

61
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How did the Swing Riots begin?

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. Destruction of threshing machines in East Kent in the summer of 1830
. By December it had spread through the whole of Southern England

62
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Why were people in the Swing Riots angry?

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. Angry at the tithe system
. Requiring payments to support the Anglican
. Poor Law guardians who abused their powers over the poor
. Low wages and mechanisation

63
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If captured what did the Swing Riot protesters face?

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. Charges of arson, robbery, riot
. If convicted they face execution, imprisonment and transportation

64
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What was the aim of the Swing Rioters?

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. To attain a living wage

65
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When were the Rebecca Riots?

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1839 and 1843

66
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Where did the Rebecca Riots take place?

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. Rural parts of west wales including Pembrokeshire

67
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Who took part in the Rebecca Riots in response to what?

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Local farmers and agricultural workers in response to taxation

68
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What did the Rebecca Rioters do?

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Often men, dressed as women, took their actions against tall gates which represented the taxes

69
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Why did the Rebecca Riots cease?

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Due to increased troop levels and not wanting to use violence

70
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1844 act of parliament linking to Rebecca Riots?

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Act to consolidate and amend the laws relating to turnpike trust in Wales was passed , rent reductions and toll rates were improves

71
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When was the first of the Rebecca Riots and what happened?

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A group of Welsh farmers attacked a tall house

72
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Why was it called the Rebecca Riots?

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The leader of the protest wore women’s clothes as a disguise and was called Rebecca - links to a Bible passage

73
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What happened to the ring leaders of the Rebecca Riot?

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Sentenced to transportation

74
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Who was King from 1860-1820?

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George III

75
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When was George III King?

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1760-1820

76
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Who succeeded George III?

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George IV but he had served as Prince Reagent since 1811

77
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When did George IV rule?

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From 1820 to 1830

78
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What did the public think of the Prince reagent?

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They disliked him

79
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What happened in 1815 and what followed in 1816?

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. 1815 - poor
. 1816 - harsh winter

80
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What is period between 1815-1820 called?

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Period of unrest

81
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What happened to the wheat prices during the Napoleonic wars?

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They were high

82
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Wheat price during the Napoleonic War vs before

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Wheat prices were over double the price during 1810-1815 than what they were before.

83
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What did the price of wheat fall to despite the corn laws and why?

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Fall to 57 shillings a quarter from 102 shillings a quarter because too much wheat was being produced

84
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What did the over production of wheat mean?

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Loss of jobs in rural areas like Kent

85
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When were the Game Laws passed?

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1815

86
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What did the Game Laws do?

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Harsh punishments for poaching e.g. the death penalty for the stealing rabbits

87
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How did the Manchester population grow?

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Doubled from 135,000 in 1821 to 235,000 in 1841

88
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How many cotton mills where in in England in 1838 and how many were in Lancashire?

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1600, 1200 in Lancashire

89
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What did the process of spinning in 1820 become?

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Factory based

90
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1820 power looms vs hand looms

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14,000 power loom in operation compared with 240,000 hand

91
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Hand loom weavers wages decline?

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From 23 shillings/week in 1805 to 6 shillings/week in 1831

92
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How many loom weavers lost their jobs in 1825?

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250,000

93
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Who was the first person to smash machines?

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Ned Lud

94
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When did the Peterloo Massacre stop being peaceful?

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When the military and yeomanry were brought in

95
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How many joined the Peterloo Massacre?

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60-80,000

96
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How did crowds at the Peterloo Massacre disperse?

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Forcibly dispersed by a sabre charge

97
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Who was the speaker at the Peterloo Massacre and what happened to him?

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Henry Hunt and he was arrested

98
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What happened in 1819 regarding reform?

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Momentum increased and across the country there were a series of four political rallies

99
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When and where was the Peterloo Massacre?

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St Peter’s Fields in Manchester on the 16th August 1819

100
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What did the protesters at the Peterloo Massacre want?

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The vote

101
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Who took part in the Peterloo Massacre?

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Mostly the middle class dressed in their Sunday best

102
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When were the six acts passed?

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December 1819

103
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How were the six acts passed?

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By the Home Secretary in an authoritarian way

104
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What did the six acts split?

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The movement in two, isolated the working class who had less to loose

105
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What did the Peterloo Massacre start out as?

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Manchester radicals organised an open air meeting in St Peter’s Fields Manchester where Henry Hunt spoke about reform

106
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What did the Magistrates order for the Peterloo Massacre?

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Ordered troops and the local yeomanry to stand by, they allowed the meeting to go ahead but got panicked and decided to stop it

107
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What did the Peterloo Massacre highlight about the government?

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They were willing to use the same tactics against the British people that they had used against the French

108
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How was Luddism and the Swing Riots similar?

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. Against new technology and reduced
. Community protests rather than individual
. Machines would take jobs
. Both broke machines and used threading letters
. Similar areas of Britains
. Violently suppressed by military
. Protesters faced execution, transportation and arrest

109
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Mythical figures in the Swing Riots and Luddism

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. General Ludd
. Captain Swing
. Encouraged solidarity

110
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Differences between Luddism and the Swing Riots

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. Luddism aimed at defending traditional skills, Swing were angry at tithe, poor law guardians, payments for Anglican and wanted a minimum wage
. Luddites used violence, Swing was more ordered
. Luddites against the factory system and attacked mills, Swing targeted machines hat denied them winter work

A-Level History: Britain 1785-1870 (19 decks)

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