Term 2 Test 1

Question 1

Why were children more useful in some labour than adults?

Answer 1

They could crawl into spaces too small for adults and their hands fitted into small gaps

Question 2

What are some examples of jobs children did?

Answer 2

.chimney sweeps
.messengers
.flower and newspaper sellers
.domestic servants

Question 3

Give one example of why children would be forced to work?

Answer 3

To pay off their parent’s debts

Question 4

What were some of the consequences for riots and strikes of the working class for better working and living conditions?

Answer 4

Striking workers were usually fired and, if caught, could be imprisoned or hanged for their actions

Question 5

When was the first ever british trade union established?

Answer 5

1833

Question 6

What effect did the strikes have?

Answer 6

It created enough fear and sympathy for the working class that labout laws began to be passed that gave workers certain laws

Question 7

What were some examples of what the laws did/lead to?

Answer 7

.Child labour declining from the middle of the 1800s
.Limited working hours passesd but not taken seriously until the 1847 factories act which set a 10-hour working day limit (children+adults)

Question 8

What lead to widespread public schooling?

Answer 8

As factory technology improved, there was a need for an educated workforce which lead to widespread public schooling

Question 9

Why did some people think schools were a bad idea?

Answer 9

Educated workers would want higher pay and be influenced by radical ideas such as as Marxism and Trade Unionism

Question 10

When did the government begin to provide funding for schools?

Answer 10

From the 1830s

Question 11

What were schools expected to do?

Answer 11

Instil discipline, order and respect: qualities that were seen as essential for economic and social stability (it was also hoped that this would reduce the cost of prisons and a police force)

Question 12

One example of how education made workers more efficient?

Answer 12

Workers who coukd read notices abd instruction sheets would be more efficient

Question 13

What else contributed to the spread of literacy and education

Answer 13

Cheaper books and newspapers, and the spread of libraries and museums

Question 14

Child labour in Britain continued well into the _____ century.

Answer 14

20th

Question 15

What is the legal working age for full-time employment today?

Answer 15

16 (and schooling is compulsory to that age)