Protest movements

Question 1

Give 3 reasons why workers were unhappy during the early 19th Century

Answer 1

Price of bread, corn laws, population rise, urbanisation, mechanisation, war with France, living conditions, unemployment, game laws, repression by government

Question 2

What name was given to the people who smashed machinery in mills and what was the origin of the name?

Answer 2

Luddites, Ned Ludd said to be first person to smash machinery

Question 3

Where did the aforementioned protest start and why?

Answer 3

Nottinghamshire to protest about the introduction of power looms and loss of earnings

Question 4

Between what dates did this protest take place?

Answer 4

1811-1816

Question 5

How did the government respond to this protest?

Answer 5

Death penalty, imprisonment

Question 6

When did the march of the Blanketeers take place?

Answer 6

1817

Question 7

Where were the Blanketeers headed and why?

Answer 7

Hunger march to present petition to the Prince Regent by textile workers

Question 8

How did the government respond to the Blanketeers?

Answer 8

Spies, troops sent in, only got to Manchester, marchers arrested

Question 9

What does suspension of Habeas Corpus mean and when did it happen?

Answer 9

Right to a trail, 1816/17

Question 10

What did the government of the day do to cause the Pentridge Rising?

Answer 10

Agent Provocateur, Oliver

Question 11

When did the Pentridge Rising take place?

Answer 11

1817

Question 12

Who led the Pentridge Rising and what happened to him?

Answer 12

Jeremiah Brandreth, hanged

Question 13

Who was Captain Swing and what did he want?

Answer 13

Mythical figure, protesting agricultural workers at threshing machines.

Question 14

Where was Captain Swing operating?

Answer 14

S.E. England (Kent, Sussex, Wiltshire, Berkshire, Hampshire) and E England (Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, Norfolk)

Question 15

What was the size of the population in 1815 in Britain and by how much had it grown since 1750?

Answer 15

11 million from 7.5 million

Question 16

Name 2 new industrial cities in the early 19th Century

Answer 16

Manchester, Leeds, Sheffield, Bolton

Question 17

How did the government protect wheat prices and in what year?

Answer 17

1815 Corn Laws

Question 18

Where and when did the Peterloo Massacre take place?

Answer 18

St Peter’s Fields Manchester, 1819

Question 19

What was the name of the radical who was addressing the crowd at Peterloo?

Answer 19

Henry Hunt

Question 20

Name 2 of the ways the government responded to the Peterloo Massacre in the Six Acts

Answer 20

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