Protest Movements Flashcards
1.Give 3 reasons why workers were unhappy during the early 19th Century.
Price of bread, corn laws, population rise, urbanisation, mechanisation, war with France, living conditions, unemployment, game laws, repression by government
2.What name was given to the people who smashed machinery in mills and what was the origin of the name?
Luddites, Ned Ludd said to be first person to smash machinery
Where did the aforementioned protest start and why?
Nottinghamshire to protest about the introduction of power looms and loss of earnings
4.Between what dates did this protest take place?
1811-1816
5.How did the government respond to this protest?
Death penalty, imprisonment
6.When did the march of the Blanketeers take place?
1817
7.Where were the Blanketeers headed and why?
Hunger march to present petition to the Prince Regent by textile workers
8.How did the government respond to the Blanketeers?
Spies, troops sent in, only got to Manchester, marchers arrested
9.What does suspension of Habeas Corpus mean and when did it happen?
Right to a trail, 1816/17
10.What did the government of the day do to cause the Pentridge Rising?
Agent Provocateur, Oliver
11.When did the Pentridge Rising take place?
1817
12.Who led the Pentridge Rising and what happened to him?
Jeremiah Brandreth, hanged
13.Who was Captain Swing and what did he want?
Mythical figure, protesting agricultural workers at threshing machines.
14.Where was Captain Swing operating?
S.E. England (Kent, Sussex, Wiltshire, Berkshire, Hampshire) and E England (Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, Norfolk)
15.What was the size of the population in 1815 in Britain and by how much had it grown since 1750?
11 million from 7.5 million
16.Name 2 new industrial cities in the early 19th Century.
Manchester, Leeds, Sheffield, Bolton
17.How did the government protect wheat prices and in what year?
1815 Corn Laws
18.Where and when did the Peterloo Massacre take place?
St Peter’s Fields Manchester, 1819
19.What was the name of the radical who was addressing the crowd at Peterloo?
Henry Hunt
20.Name 2 of the ways the government responded to the Peterloo Massacre in the Six Acts.
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
