Unit 4 Equality and Rights

Question 1

Who were the suffragists?

Answer 1

A group formed in 1897 that tried peacefully to give women the vote

Question 2

Who were the suffragettes?

Answer 2

A group formed in 1903 that used violence to get women the vote

Question 3

Who were the WFL?

Answer 3

A group formed in 1907 that used peaceful methods to get women the vote

Question 4

Who was in charge of the suffragists?

Answer 4

Millicent Fawcett

Question 5

Who was the leader of the suffragettes?

Answer 5

Emmeline Pankhurst

Question 6

What happened at the Epsom Derby in 1913?

Answer 6

Emily Wilding Davison tried to pin a suffragette rosette onto the king’s horse as it rode past.

Question 7

What did the suffragettes to in 1914 in response the outbreak of WW1?

Answer 7

They suspended their campaign for the vote to help recruit soldiers

Question 8

What did lots of women do during the war?

Answer 8

Worked in the munitions factories

Question 9

What were the problems with working in the munitions factories?

Answer 9

The women had to work 12-hour shifts and the chemicals turned their skin yellow.

Question 10

Who were given the vote in 1918?

Answer 10

All men over 21 and all women over 30.

Question 11

What did the sex disqualification act of 1919 do?

Answer 11

It allowed women to work as doctors and civil servants.

Question 12

What year was the general strike?

Answer 12

1926

Question 13

When was there a high demand for coal and when did it fall?

Answer 13

There was a high demand for coal in the first world war (1914 to 1918) and the demand for coal fell at the end of the war

Question 14

Which countries were making cheaper coal than the UK in 1918?

Answer 14

Germany and the USA

Question 15

What was used the pay the miners wages from July 1925 to April 1926?

Answer 15

The Samuel commission set-up by prime minister Baldwin

Question 16

What day did the unions agree to strike?

Answer 16

May Day 1926

Question 17

How long did the general strike last?

Answer 17

9 days

Question 18

When did the miners return to work?

Answer 18

November 1926

Question 19

What did the Disputes and Trade Unions act do?

Answer 19

It made it so that the trade unions couldn’t strike together again

Question 20

During the general strike who volunteered to help the country run again?

Answer 20

The middle class

Question 21

What happened when the Flying Scotsman got derailed?

Answer 21

374 communists were arrested

Question 22

Why did the miners go back to work in November 1926?

Answer 22

The miners union ran out of money

Question 23

What was the British Gazette?

Answer 23

A propaganda newspaper edited by Winston Churchill

Question 24

What happened when Baldwin referred to the strike as a revolution

Answer 24

Peoples fears of communism were fuelled

Question 25

Who set-up funds to support the strikers and their families

Answer 25

The TUC (Trade Union Congress)

Question 26

Name 3 long term impacts of immigration.

Answer 26

Too many immigrants
Tension between whites and blacks
Racial discrimination
People wanted change
Too many immigrants in major cities
Posed a threat to the identity of Britain

Question 27

Name 2 short term impacts of immigration.

Answer 27

Employers refused to employ black people
Segregation
Asians moved from Kenya to the UK
People wanted to move back to their original country

Question 28

What did the Commonwealth Immigrants act 1962 do?

Answer 28

Stopped immigrants from coming to Britain unless they had a work order

Question 29

What did the Commonwealth Immigrants act 1968 do?

Answer 29

Immigrants needed a British parent or grand-parent to move to the UK

Question 30

What did the immigration act 1971 do?

Answer 30

Made it so that work permits allowed immigrants temporary residence in the UK

Question 31

What happened in Brixton in January 1981?

Answer 31

A fire in a house in Brixton killed 5 black youths

Question 32

What were stop and search tactics and why didn’t black people like them?

Answer 32

Stop and search is where the police would stop anyone they thought would commit a crime and would search them. Black people didn’t like this as police were 7 or 8 times more likely to stop back people than white people

Question 33

What happened in Brixton in 10th April 1981?

Answer 33

A young black man called Michael was stabbed and rushed to hospital in a police car. Black people thought that he had been arrested and killed by police brutality

Question 34

What happened when a stop and search of a police car occurred

Answer 34

A policeman was hit by a brick

Question 35

On the 11th April 1981 in the afternoon what happened?

Answer 35

Nearly 300 police were hurt, over 100 vehicles were destroyed and around 150 buildings were burned damaged or looted

Question 36

What did the report published in November 1981 say about the police?

Answer 36

They had been inherently racist and should be less eager to search young black men

Question 37

What was the Independent Police Complaints Authority meant to do?

Answer 37

Ensure that investigations into police complaints were handled properly

Question 38

What was found in the Macpherson report in 1999?

Answer 38

The police were still inherently racist