Social - Key Facts Flashcards

1
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What aimed to change the Lords

A

Attendence expenses

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2
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Name of the act that created life peers to bring new blood and eminent people into the Lords

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Life Peerage Act 1958

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3
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Name of the cases that hightened controversy around the death penalty

A
  • Bentley
  • Evans
  • Ellis
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4
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Who led the pressure group against the death penalty

A

Arthur Koestler

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5
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Name of the Labour MP that introduced a Private Memebers bill to suspend executions

A

Sidney Silverman

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6
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Name of the act which significantly reduced the categories of murder and allowed the defence of ‘diminished responsibility’

A

Homocide Act 1957

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7
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Name of the act that aimed to rationalise the Lunacy Acts and destigmatise mental health

A

Mental Health Act 1959

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8
Q

Act that decriminalised attempted suicide

A

Suicide Act 1961

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9
Q

Act that backfired massively

A

Rent Act 1957

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10
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Name of the horrible landlord

A

Peter Rachman

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11
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Name of the report that increased the school leaving age

A

Crowther Report 1959

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12
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Number of new hosuing units built under the Conservatives

A

1 million

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13
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Number of slum dwellings cleared under the Conservatives

A

253,000

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14
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Number of miles of motorway built under the Conservatives

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260 Miles

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15
Q

Act that gave government aid to certain areas

A

Local Employment Act 1960

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16
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Number of jobs the Local Employment Act created

A

900,000

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17
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Name of the act which aimed to moderise the railways

A

Transport Act 1962

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18
Q

Name of people involved in political corruption of the ‘New Towns’

A
  • T Dan Smith (Mr Newscastle)
  • John Poulson
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19
Q

Percentage rise in education spending

A

10%

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20
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Name of the report which recommended a massive expansion of higher education

A

Robbins Report 1963

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21
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Number of universities founded in 1961 to 1965

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7

22
Q

Number of immigrants arriving in Britain in 1961

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136,000

23
Q

Name of the act which meant immigrants could only enter if they had jobs or skills needed

A

Commonwealth Immigration Act 1962

24
Q

Number of immigrant coming into the UK in 1964

A

46,626

25
Q

Number of emigrants in the 1960s

A

1.92 Million

Inward Migration was 1.25 Million

26
Q

Nickname of economically insecure, white, working class, young men

A

Teds

27
Q

Name of Racist Groups

A
  • White Defence League
  • League of Empire Loyalists
  • National Socialist Movement
28
Q

Name of the Cambridge graduate that could not get a job

A

Eric Braithwaite

29
Q

Who was murdered in Notting Hill in May 1959

A

Kelso Cochrane

30
Q

Event that highlighted the racist employment practices in the UK

A

Bristol Bus Boycott

31
Q

Conservative MP that played the ‘race card’ in the Smethwick Constituency in the 1964 General Election

A

Peter Griffiths

32
Q

Right Wing Politicians

A

Oswald Mosley

33
Q

How much did crime increase

A

More than doubled

34
Q

Name of the ‘respectable’ criminals

A

Kray Twins

35
Q

Number of teenager in Brtiain in 1959

A

5 million - 10% of the Population

36
Q

Name of the two youth cultural sub groups

A
  • Mods
  • Rockers
37
Q

Where did riots between the Mods and Rockers in May 1964

A
  • Clacton
  • Margate
  • Brighton
38
Q

Books that illustrated social realism

A
  • A Clockword Orange - Anthony Burgess
  • Cathy Come Home - Ken Loach
39
Q

Name of media that broke down social taboos

A
  • Taste of Honey - Shelagh Delaney
  • Victim
40
Q

Name of media that increased satire

A
  • Beyond the Fringes
  • Private Eye
41
Q

Name of the Trial which ended press censorhip in the UK

A

Lady Chatterley Trial

42
Q

Who led the campaign against immorality and depravity

A

Mary Whitehouse

43
Q

Number of nobility in Macmillan’s government

A
  • Duke
  • Marques
  • Three Earls
43
Q

Number of nobility in Macmillan’s government

A
  • Duke
  • Marques
  • Three Earls
44
Q

Name of the sociologists that attacked British class

A
  • Richard Hoggart
  • CP Snow
45
Q

Things that increase women’s lives in the home

A

Labour-saving devices

46
Q

Percentage of households owning a washing machine and refrigerator

A

54% and 58%

47
Q

Name for the Hotpoint washing machine

A

The Liberator

48
Q

Women’s movement that was beginning to pick up

A

Second-Wave feminism

49
Q

Benefit that was paid to families that had stay at home mothers

A

Family Allowances