The Impact of the French Revolution

Question 1

When are the first trials for ‘sedition’ in Scotland?

Answer 1

January 1793

Question 2

When is haebeas corpus suspended under Pitt?

Answer 2

1794

Question 3

When and why is Thomas Hardy tried?

Answer 3

Tried for ‘imagining the kings death’ in 1794 but acquitted by the jury

Question 4

When did Pitt pass the Gagging Acts?

Answer 4

1795

Question 5

What were the gagging acts?

Answer 5

The treasonable practices act and seditious meetings and assemblies act

Question 6

What was the treasonable practises Act?

Answer 6

Act which forbade expressing views likely to bring King or Government into contempt

Question 7

What was the Seditious Meetings Act?

Answer 7

Prohibited holding of any political meeting attended by more than 50 people without permission

Question 8

How many people were prosecuted for treason in 1795?

Answer 8

200

Question 9

What acts did Pitt introduce in 1797 to suppress naval mutinies?

Answer 9

1. Seduction from duty and allegiance act

2. Act against administering unlawful oaths

Question 10

When was the French Revolution?

Answer 10

1789

Question 11

When was the coalition established ?

Answer 11

July 1794

Question 12

Who joined the coalition?

Answer 12

Portland, Fitzwilliam, Windham and Spenser

Question 13

What did Fox supporters number after the coalition was formed in July 1794?

Answer 13

51

Question 14

When was the London corresponding society founded ?

Answer 14

January 1792

Question 15

Who founded the London corresponding society?

Answer 15

Thomas Hardy

Question 16

What did the London corresponding society do?

Answer 16

Agitated for universal manhood suffrage and political reform

Question 17

What book did Paine publish and when?

Answer 17

‘Rights of man’ (1791+1792 - in two parts)

Question 18

What was Paine’s rights of man according to Evans?

Answer 18

‘Bible of British radicalism’

Question 19

How many men were in volunteer companies against France?

Answer 19

400,000

Question 20

What was Edmund Burke’s book and when was it published ?

Answer 20

‘Reflections on the Revolution in France’ (1790)

Question 21

What did Burke say on revolutions?

Answer 21

‘Those who attempt to level, never equalise’

Question 22

What did William Windham do in 1793?

Answer 22

Formed a ‘third Party’ severing relations with the revolutionary Fox

Question 23

When was the terror phase of the revolution ?

Answer 23

1793-94

Question 24

What did Evans say about how the public viewed the descent of the Revolution into terror?

Answer 24

‘A revolution originating in enlightenment had developed a malign, abhorrant and aggressive momentum of its own’

Question 25

Why was Burke more popular than Paine?

Answer 25

Sentiment was tied to patriotism as Britain engaged in a war against France

Question 26

When did Grey, Whitebread and Sheridan firm ‘Association of the friends of the people’?

Answer 26

1792

Question 27

When does Loughborough join Pitts gov as Lord chancellor?

Answer 27

January 1793

Question 28

How many people in the coalition cabinet were anti-Pitt?

Answer 28

6 out of 13

Question 29

Why did Pitt form the coalition in 1794?

Answer 29

‘To stamp out the heresies if Jocobenism, Atheism and Democracy’

Question 30

When was the royal proclamation against seditious publications ?

Answer 30

December 1792

Question 31

When were the newspaper publications acts?

Answer 31

1798-99