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Society Flashcards

1
Q

What does society mean?

A

The population and the groups it can be split into i.e gentry and aristocracy

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2
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What are three factors that affect population size?

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Migration
Death rate
Birth rate

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3
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What was the size of the population in 1348?

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4.8 million

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4
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What was the size of the population in 1430?

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2.2 million

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5
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Why did the population size fall between 1300-1500?

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The Black Death

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6
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What was the size of the population in 1600?

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4.1 million

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7
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What was the size of the population in 1650?

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5.3 million

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8
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What was the size of the population in 1700?

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5.2 million

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9
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When does the population size recover from the Black Death?

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1625

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10
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What fraction of Londoners does the Great Plague kill?

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1/5

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11
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What is subsistence farming?

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Farming to look after the household and leaving little for trade

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12
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What part of England remained largely uninhabited?

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The north

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13
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What class grew rapidly since 1500?

A

The gentry and merchant class

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14
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Why were there occasionally bursts in population size?

A

Huguenots and Americas being discovered

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15
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What percentage of Norwich was made up of migrants?

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35%

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16
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Why did fertility rates fall between 1650 and 1700?

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People were getting married later and having less children

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17
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How big was London compared to the next biggest English city?

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Ten times bigger

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18
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What percentage of the population lived in London in 1700?

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9%

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19
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What percentage of the population lived in London in 1520?

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2.75%

20
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How did London emerge as such a significant trade centre?

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It has three rivers that surround it which made it defendable so the Romans, Anglo-Saxons and Normans built on

21
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Who were three notable members of the gentry?

A

John Pym, Oliver Cromwell, George Monck

22
Q

How many upper gentry were there ?

A

3,000

23
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How many lower gentry were there?

A

12,000

24
Q

How many people as well as upper and lower gentry were there in Yorkshire?

A

Population = 300,000
Upper Gentry = 256
Lower Gentry = 323

25
Q

What percentage of wealth belonged to the gentry?

A

50%

26
Q

What percentage of wealth belonged to the nobility?

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15%

27
Q

Why did the influence of the gentry increase?

A

Their second and third sons became lawyers and politicians

28
Q

Why did the role of the gentry increase during the Civil War?

A

The role of parliament was more important so Charles 1 had to call on them for help

29
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What was Tawney’s view on why the gentry grew?

A

The collapse of the nobility

30
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What was Trevor-Roper’s view on why the gentry grew?

A

Their involvement in politics

31
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What were the two groups the poor could be split into?

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The settled poor and the vagrant poor

32
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What were the settled poor?

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Those who were established in one parish and did not move around to find work

33
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What were the vagrant poor?

A

Those who traditionally travelled in order to sustain themselves

34
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What percentage of the population were arrested for vagrancy in the 1630s?

A

0.5%

35
Q

What percentage of village population became slaves?

A

40%

36
Q

What were the advantages of becoming a slave?

A

Free housing, clothing, food and safeguarding from inflation

37
Q

What fraction of village population left to find work elsewhere?

A

1/3

38
Q

How many people went to America with the Puritans?

A

200,000

39
Q

How is poverty dealt with in the 1600s?

A

Elizabethan Poor Laws in 1601 - tax to parishes to help the unemployed

40
Q

What fraction of the urban population lived near the poverty line?

A

2/3

41
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When was the Book of Orders and what did it include about poverty?

A

1631 - provisions on relief of poor and treatment vagrants

42
Q

What did the Act of 1601 do for poverty?

A

It allowed them to beg for food and set up poorhouses

43
Q

In 1650 how much was state relief?

A

£118,000

44
Q

When did the Cavalier Parliament pass the poor relief act and what did it achieve?

A

1662 - stopped squatting and allowed vagrants to be sent back to their original parishes

45
Q

What percentage of London was burned down in the Great Fire?

A

60%

46
Q

Why and did the Huguenots moved to England?

A

1685 - The Edict of Nantes was torn up

47
Q

What and where did the Huguenots set

A

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