Significance/Importance/Influence - Limitations of Significance/Importance/Influence

Question 1

Issue:

- Scotch Cattle

Answer 1

SIGNIFICANCE/IMPORTANCE/INFLUENCE:

- W/C solidarity in South Wales coalfield

Question 2

Issue:

- Scotch Cattle

Answer 2

LIMITATIONS OF SIGNIFICANCE/IMPORTANCE/INFLUENCE:

- Little impact beyond Monmouthshire

Question 3

Issue:

- Swing Riots

Answer 3

SIGNIFICANCE/IMPORTANCE/INFLUENCE:

• Challenged paternalism
• Added to the heightened tension during the Reform Crisis 1830-1832
• Contributed to the Reform of the Poor Law
• Led to the establishment of a rural police force

Question 4

Issue:

- Swing Riots

Answer 4

LIMITATIONS OF SIGNIFICANCE/IMPORTANCE/INFLUENCE:

• No real achievements in terms of increased wages
• Largely isolated to rural southern England

Question 5

Issue:

- Poor Law

Answer 5

SIGNIFICANCE/IMPORTANCE/INFLUENCE:

• Changed the Poor Law system for the first time since Elizabethan era
• Anti-Poor Law movement was a building black of Chartism
• Ended outdoor relief
• Anti-Poor Law movement had some success in delaying full implementation in some northern industrial towns e.g. Rochdale etc

Question 6

Issue:

- Poor Law

Answer 6

LIMITATIONS OF SIGNIFICANCE/IMPORTANCE/INFLUENCE:

• Anti-Poor Law movement died down after initial success
• Anti-Poor Law movement became divided due to Chartism
• Supporters drifted towards Chartism
• Poor Law did achieve increased efficiency cost per head fell but mainly due to increase in population

Question 7

Issue:

- Rebecca Riots

Answer 7

SIGNIFICANCE/IMPORTANCE/INFLUENCE:

• Road system reviewed and changed by Parliament
• Gained national prominence e.g. in the Times
• Led to violent outbursts, attacks and murder e.g.
• Viewed as largely successful

Question 8

Issue:

- Rebecca Riots

Answer 8

LIMITATIONS OF SIGNIFICANCE/IMPORTANCE/INFLUENCE:

• Became more violent
• Govt response dealt with tangible grievances only
• Limited to South-West Wales

Question 9

Issue:

- Merthyr Rising

Answer 9

SIGNIFICANCE/IMPORTANCE/INFLUENCE:

• Merthyr gained a MP in 1832
• Establishment of T/Us after the Rising
• Wales gained its first W/c martyr
• Merthyr crowd ambushed soldiers and yeomanry and held the town for several days

Question 10

Issue:

- Merthyr Rising

Answer 10

LIMITATIONS OF SIGNIFICANCE/IMPORTANCE/INFLUENCE:

• Limited to Merthyr - limited/no success in its spread across South Wales coalfield
• Iron master Josiah John Guest became MP
• People’s living an working conditions didn’t change

Question 11

Issue:

- Factory Reform Movement

Answer 11

SIGNIFICANCE/IMPORTANCE/INFLUENCE: - Some legislation was passed - include examples

• Highlighted the conditions of the W/C
• Improved conditions for women and children
• Ten Hour Movement and the Short Time Committees became the building blocks of Chartism

Question 12

Issue:

- Factory Reform Movement

Answer 12

LIMITATIONS OF SIGNIFICANCE/IMPORTANCE/INFLUENCE:

• Legislation was permissive e.g. lack of inspectors
• Wages and conditions of men were ignored
• Legislation was not always effective

Question 13

Issue:

- Growth of early T/Us

Answer 13

SIGNIFICANCE/IMPORTANCE/INFLUENCE:

• Formation of national unions e.g. GNCTU, NAPL
• Success of co-operative movement e.g. Rochdale pioneers
• Robert Owen and New Lanark

Question 14

Issue:

- Growth of early T/Us

Answer 14

LIMITATIONS OF SIGNIFICANCE/IMPORTANCE/INFLUENCE:

• National T/Us failed after short period of time
• Robert Owen’s co-operative ideas failed e.g. Derby silk throwers
• Failure of London co-operative society

Question 15

Issue:

- Chartism

Answer 15

SIGNIFICANCE/IMPORTANCE/INFLUENCE:

• National movement
• First W/C political movement
• Umbrella organization
• Led to popular protests e.g. Newport, Plug Plot and Kennington Common
• Long Term: 5/6 aims achieved
• Petitions and conventions = highlight the [light of the W/C

Question 16

Issue:

- Chartism

Answer 16

LIMITATIONS OF SIGNIFICANCE/IMPORTANCE/INFLUENCE:

• Short term: largely failed
• Knife and fork issue i.e. people drifted away when economy improved
• Divisions: moral and physical force
• Forgeries in Third Petition

Question 17

Issue:

- ACLL

Answer 17

SIGNIFICANCE/IMPORTANCE/INFLUENCE:

• Successful in achieving its limited aim
• Moved Britain towards free trade
• Demonstrated the growing influence of the industrial M/C

Question 18

Issue:

- ACLL

Answer 18

LIMITATIONS OF SIGNIFICANCE/IMPORTANCE/INFLUENCE:
- ACLL played a role but Peel’s own conversion and events in Ireland were more significant in the repeal of the Corn Laws.