The Growth of Parliamentary Democracy

Question 1

Define Franchise

Answer 1

The right to vote in an election

Question 2

Define Constituency

Answer 2

An area or a group of voters who elect a representative to Parliament

Question 3

Define Sedition

Answer 3

Inciting revolution

Question 4

Define Transportation

Answer 4

A punishment which meant being sent to Australia

Question 5

Define Yeomanry

Answer 5

Armed voluntary cavalry force used to maintain order

Question 6

When was the death of Lord Liverpool?

Answer 6

1828

Question 7

When was Catholic Emancipation?

Answer 7

1829

Question 8

When was the first reform act?

Answer 8

1832

Question 9

When the first chartist petition?

Answer 9

1839

Question 10

When did Gladstone first become PM?

Answer 10

1868

Question 11

When were property qualifications for MPs removed?

Answer 11

1858

Question 12

When was the Peterloo massacre?

Answer 12

1819

Question 13

When were the six acts passed?

Answer 13

1819

Question 14

When did the Napoleonic wars end?

Answer 14

1815

Question 15

When were the corn laws introduced?

Answer 15

1815

Question 16

When did Lord Liverpool become PM?

Answer 16

1812

Question 17

When did the first French revolution begin?

Answer 17

1789

Question 18

When did the USA’s war of independence begin?

Answer 18

1783

Question 19

When did Pitt the younger become PM?

Answer 19

1783

Question 20

When were the Hyde park riots?

Answer 20

1866

Question 21

When was the second reform act?

Answer 21

1867

Question 22

What did Britain lack that was often need to spark revolution or significant change?

Answer 22

Major economic problems or military disaster, indeed it was the most powerful empire in the world

Question 23

Who wrote a book that underpins Tory ideology, even today?

Answer 23

Edmund Burke

Question 24

What was Edmund Burke’s Book called?

Answer 24

Reflections on the Revolution in France

Question 25

When was “Reflections on the Revolution in France” published?

Answer 25

1790

Question 26

What did the Whigs fundamentally support?

Answer 26

Moderate reform

Question 27

By 1801, what percentage of the 658 MPs in the House of Commons owed their position to benefactors in the Lords?

Answer 27

50%

Question 28

What is the correct definition of a ‘pocket borough’?

Answer 28

Small borough which could easily be controlled by the predominant landowner by coercion or bribery

Question 29

What is the correct definition of a ‘rotten borough’?

Answer 29

Small town or hamlet that was once a prominent settlement, but had declined in stature over time and thus has over inflated political influence.

Question 30

How many copied of Thomas Paine’s book ‘Rights of Man’ had been sold by 1793?

Answer 30

Over 200,000

Question 31

Over 100,000 people met where on 26th October 1795 calling for manhood sufferage?

Answer 31

Copenhagen Fields

Question 32

Between February and March 18030, over 200 petitions were sent to Parliament demanding tax reductions in rural areas. Why was this?

Answer 32

Poor harvests in 1828 and 1829 saw an increase in prices

Question 33

What were the name of the two groups that formed in the Tory Party over the issue of Catholic Emancipation?

Answer 33

Ultras and Liberals

Question 34

Which year saw the passage of an Act of Parliament that allowed joint stock banks to issue cheques?

Answer 34

1833

Question 35

How many cities with over 500 000 citizens by 1851?

Answer 35

29

Question 36

What proportion of the inhabitants of Birmingham lived in back to back housing by 1801?

Answer 36

Two - thirds

Question 37

By 1821, what percentage of the working population were under the age of 20?

Answer 37

49%

Question 38

What was the Frame Breaking Act and when was it passed?

Answer 38

Passed in 1812 and made the breaking of frames a crime punishable by death

Question 39

In what year was the first Burial Act passed that established a public network of cemeteries in London, and which was subsequently extended across the rest of the country in later years?

Answer 39

1852

Question 40

What organisations did the trade unions of the late 18th and 19th centuries grow out of?

Answer 40

Trade Societies

Question 41

What does GNCTU stand for?

Answer 41

Grand National Consolidated Trade Union

Question 42

What was ‘the Document’?

Answer 42

Piece of paper that employers forced employees to sign denouncing any commitment to a union

Question 43

When was the Trades Union Congress established by Samuel Nicholson?

Answer 43

June 1868

Question 44

Who established the Trades Union Congress?

Answer 44

Samuel Nicholson

Question 45

What is a Friendly Society?

Answer 45

Groups of men who came together and paid a weekly subscription fee. This money would be pooled and used to help members who required support and assistance.

Question 46

What is the definition of ‘pauperism’?

Answer 46

Refers to anyone in receipt of state-provided relief under the Poor Laws

Question 47

What was outdoor relief?

Answer 47

The practice of giving money, food or clothes to the poor

Question 48

What was indoor relief?

Answer 48

The practice of placing poor people in a workhouse

Question 49

What was the theory of ‘Utilitarianism’ put forward by Jeremy Bentham and that greatly influenced government legislation in 1834?

Answer 49

Poor relief should be as unpleasant as possible to reduce the number of people who wanted to be reliant on it

Question 50

IN the 1848 cholera outbreak, how many people were killed across two years?

Answer 50

62 000

Question 51

After the sunderland outbreak of cholera in 1831, how many people died across Britain in 1831 and 1832?

Answer 51

32 000