Unit 1. Chapter 5 - Political Changes

Question 1

What percentage of the vote did the conservative win in the 1918 election in Scotland?

Answer 1

30%

Question 2

What was the party regarded as?

-Conservatives

Answer 2

Party of middle class and law and order

Question 3

How may votes did the Labour Party receive in 1914 and 1918?

Answer 3

1914-800,000

1918-2,000,000

Question 4

Who loves you

Answer 4

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Question 5

Why did phase one of the red cyldeside?

Answer 5

In the cyldeside there was a huge concentration of male and female munitions and engineering workers. They were concerned about dilution and workers rights.

Question 6

Who was arrested and deported to Edinburgh?

Answer 6

Kirkwood

Question 7

How did the Red Clyde-side start?

Answer 7

Between 1915-1919 a number of protests took place in parts of Glasgow and the surrounding areas such as Greenock , Clydebank and Paisley, by working class men and women

Question 8

Who was John MaLean?

Answer 8

Radical Socialist - Marxist (communism)

Question 9

What did John Maclean produce? And what did it have in it?

Answer 9

A journal called Vanguard and it pro times anti-war views

Question 10

What happened to John Maclean in 1915?

Answer 10

Arrested and imprisoned

Question 11

What happened in George Square 1919?

Answer 11

A battle that he CWC enacted to reduce the working week from 54 hours to 40 hours.

Question 12

What happened on the 27th of Jan 1919

Answer 12

40,000 workers on Clydeside went on strike.

Question 13

What happened on the 31st January 1919?

Answer 13

90,000 workers assembled in George Square

Question 14

What did the police do in George Square?

What was this called?

Answer 14

Charged at a crowd gifting spread through the streets.

Bloody Friday - communist flag

Question 15

What were the Government Concerned about ?

Answer 15

The treats of political revolution

Question 16

How many English troops were sent and how many tanks were stationed in the city?

Answer 16

Troops = 12,000

Tanks =6

Question 17

How long did it take till the strike was over and what was the impact?

Answer 17

The strike was over within a week and the CWC leaders arrested and workers were given 47hours working week

Question 18

What happened 1915?

Answer 18

Rent strikes - women taking political action over domestic issue

Question 19

Why was John Maclean imprisoned so many time?

Answer 19

Under the DORA for anti-war views

1915- arrested for statements to discourage recruitment

1916- imprisoned for anti-conscription speeches.

Question 19

What happened to John MacLean in 1918?

Answer 19

He was charged with sedition

• 5 months in prison
• went on hunger strike was force fed
• released December 1918

Question 20

What happened to John Maclean in 1923? And what did people do?

Answer 20

He died

Thousands lined in the streets to see his funeral procession pass.

Question 21

What happened to many of the Woking class voters by the end of the war?

Answer 21

They stared to turn to growing to the Labour Party

Question 22

Who were he conservatives regarded as?

Answer 22

Middle class and law and order

Question 23

What happened to the Liberals during the war?

Answer 23

The party divided by the war. Some had left to form the UDC

UDC- Union Democratic Control (anti-war campaign)

Question 24

What happened the 27th of January 1919?

Answer 24

40,000 workers on Clydeside went on strike