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Stockton to Darlington railway? |
1825 |
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Liverpool to Manchester? |
1830 |
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Repeal of test and corporation acts passed? |
1828 Lifted legal restrictions on non conformists holding public office |
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Tonnage of ships change |
66,700 to 75,500 from 1820 to 1830 |
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When was the cast iron power loom made and by who? |
1822 Richard Roberts |
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How much did the number of power looms increase by? |
1803 to 1833 : 2400 to 100k |
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Puffing Billy |
1812 |
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When did the threshing machine come into effect? |
1820s |
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Give an example of a crop rotation system |
Norfolk system |
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How were the navigation acts modified? |
To allow trading in foreign ships |
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When was the bank act? |
1826 Legalised joint stock banks |
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How did Wellington cause divide within the tory party? |
Allowed Canningnites to resign 1828 Amendment of Corn Laws Openly supported the unreformed system in 1830 |
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How did Catholic emancipation cause tory divide? |
Laughing stock (O'Connell won 2:1) Humiliated (1829 emancipation bill) Highlighted division (1829 142 voted against it) |
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Give 3 other factors, other than Wellington and Catholic emancipation, that led to tory divide |
Personal rivalries (canning divided opinion) Liverpool's resignation (loss of skill) More demand for reform (1825 knife and fork discontent) |
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When were the swing riots? |
1831 |
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From when to when did wages double? |
1815 to 1850 |
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Give an example of a poor relief system? |
1795 Speenhamland system Didn't work because of the rise in population |
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How many Scots emigrated to Canada in 1832? |
10k |
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Give 3 cities that had a population of over 100k in 1831 |
Edinburgh, Bristol, Manchester |
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What were set up to oppose the slavery movement? |
Reform societies |
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Who was the leading campaigner against slavery? |
William Wilberforce |
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When was the original anti slavery act passed? |
1807 |
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When was the anti slavery society set up? |
1823 |
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When was the second abolition of slavery act passed? |
1833 |
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How many Methodists were there by 1812? |
350k |
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Name 2 figures who supported parliamentary reform |
Henry Hunt and William Cobbett |
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How did the defeat of the tories in November 1830 help the passing of the GRA? |
Allowed for greys more open minded government to take power |
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When was the original reform bill rejected by the Lords? |
October 1831 |
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Give 3 pressures on the government to pass the GRA |
Attwoods BPU Middle class influenced by Bentham and Mill Middle class felt they deserved power |
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How many attempts did it take to pass the GRA? |
4 |
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Elements of change the GRA introduced? |
145 borough seats abolished Scottish voters up 4500 to 65k 1 in 5 had the franchise |
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Elements of continuity after the GRA? |
31 boroughs has less than 300 voters Less than 20% of males could vote Property ownership basis of franchise |
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By when was the cotton industry fully mechanised? |
1820 |
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Who wrote "Reflections upon the revolution in France"? What year was it published? |
Burke in 1790 |
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How did the cotton industry develop in the 19th century? |
By 1820 it was fully mechanised By 1830 30% of the workforce were involved in textiles By 1830 cotton made up 70% of British exports |
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Treasonable practices act passed? |
1795 |
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How did coal production change in the 19th century? |
1815 16m tonnes 1830 30m tonnes |
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Who wrote "The Rights of Man"? What year was it published? |
Paine in 1791 |
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Working hours and days |
16 hour day 6 days a week |
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When was the Catholic relief act passed? |
1793 Allowed catholics to vote but no MPs |
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When was the navigation act and what was its impact? |
1786 By 1787 exports to the USA had reached 1770s levels |
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First change in coal output? |
7m to 14m tonnes from the 1780s to 1812 |
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Aliens Act passed? |
1793 |
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Orders in Council passed? |
January 1807 |
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Who invented the steam engine and rotary motion? What year? |
James Watt in 1781 |
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Population change from 1st to 2nd census |
1801 10.9m 1811 12.6m |
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What proportion of the workforce were in agriculture by 1811? |
Less than half |
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How much of the workforce were children and when? How was this changed later on? |
20% 1819 factories act |
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Wage gap between men women and children? |
Men earn 10 times children did and 2 times women did |
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When was Catholic Emancipation passed? |
April 1829 |
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How many Tories voted against emancipation? |
142 |
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When were the six acts? |
1819 |
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Who made the steam locomotive and when |
Stephenson in 1814 |
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Which budgets first included free trade measures |
1824 and 1825 |
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How many elections were contested |
1 third |
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How did pig iron output change |
68k in 1788 to 250k in 1804 |
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Effect of the Eden treaty |
1786 Export value exceeded £20m by 1790 |
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When was habeas corpus second suspended |
1817 In response to the 1816 spa field riots |
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East India act |
1784 Gave government more control |
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Corn Laws |
1815 |
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Metropolitan police |
1829 Created 3000 jobs |
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When were stamp duties raised |
1796 |
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When was the society of United irishmen formed |
October 1791 |
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When was habeas corpus first suspended |
1794 |
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When was the peterloo massacre |
1819 11 died |
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Wheat price peak |
£6.30 in 1812 |
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Reciprocity of Duties act |
1823 Encouraged trade deals |
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Berlin and Milan decrees |
1806 |
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How did the war affect national debt |
1801 £456m 1815 £876m |
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When was the act against seditious writings passed |
May 1792 |
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When was the County Clare Elections |
July 1828 |
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Who made the Hot Air Blast Furnace and when |
Neilson in 1828 |
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When did the Bank of England suspend gold payments |
1797 |
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When were the combination acts passed |
1799 and 1800 |
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Who invented the new process of smelting iron and when |
Henry Cort in 1784 |
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When was income tax repealed and what was it replaced with |
1816 Indirect taxes on goods |
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Who invented the power loom and when |
Cartwright in 1789 |
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Levee en Masse |
1803 800k men in arms |
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Sinking Fund |
1786 Reduced national debt by £10m by 1793 |
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Consolidated fund act |
1787 |
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Gaols Act |
1823 Improved prison conditions for inmates |
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Relief and Toleration acts |
1819 |
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How did farmer output change |
Enough to feed 1.7 people to enough to feed 2.5 people from the 1780s to 1800 |
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When were the corn laws adjusted |
1828 |
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Truck Act |
1819 Ensured workers were paid in money |
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When did Wolfe Tone plot french landings in the UK |
1798 |
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Treasury commission of audit |
1785 |
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Game Laws |
1816 |
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Life expectancy change |
1780 25 1840 40 |
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How much of the population was middle class by 1800 |
25% |
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Commutation act |
1784 Tea duty down from 119% to 25% |
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When did luddism begin |
1811 |
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Pentrich Rising |
1817 Attack on Nottingham Castle |
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When was the minimum wage bill rejected |
1808 |
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Cato Street Conspiracy |
1820 Attempt to assassinate tory cabinet 5 tried and executed |
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When was income tax introduced |
1798 |
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Spencer perceval assassination |
1812 |
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Reform of the Penal Code |
1823 1825 to 1828 over 180 capital offences removed |
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By how much did government revenue rise from 1783 to 1791 |
£4m |
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Who set up the London corresponding society and when |
Hardy in 1792 |
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When was the Catholic association set up |
1823 |
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Act of union |
1801 |
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When was the factories act and what did it do |
1819 Banned children under 9 from factories |
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How many sinecures and placemen did Pitt remove |
28 by 1792 Most of the 180 by 1806 |
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How did exports to Europe change |
1783 to 1792 they doubled |
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How many seats were below the London to bristol line |
40% |
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When did Parliamentary reform fail |
1785 1793 |
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When was the march of the blanketeers |
1817 |
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When was the committee for parliamentary reform set up |
1819 |
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When were the food riots |
1801 |
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How many petitions were there from 1824 to 1829, and how many were there in April 1831 |
0 from 1824 to 1829 Over 3000 in April 1831 |
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When were the combination acts repealed |
1824 |
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When was the amending act |
1825 |
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How did the poor rate change |
Doubled from 1780 to 1820 |
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How did hand loom weavers wages change during industrialization |
Down from 20 shillings pre industrialisation to 6 shillings in 1830 |
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Who succeeded Wellington as PM, and it what year? |
Lord Charles Grey December 1832 |
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Who succeeded Grey as PM, and it what year? |
Lord Melbourne August 1834 |
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How many seats did the Tories gain in 1832? What did this grow to in 1841? |
179 Seats in 1832, 368 Seats in 1841 |
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How many seats did the Whigs gain in 1832? What did this decline to in 1841? |
479 Seats in 1832, 290 Seats in 1841 |
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Who organised the Lichfield House Pact, and what did it do? |
Lord John Russel, it increased Whig dependency on the Radicals and Irish MP's and further alienated Stanley and Graham, both of whom later accepted posts in Peel's government |
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What year was the Factory Act signed? |
1833; No child under 9 could be employed in a factory, children between 9-12 could only work 8 hour days and children have two hour compulsory schooling |
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What year was slavery abolished? |
1833 |
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When was the Poor Law Amendment Act passed? |
1834; Outdoor relief for the able bodied was to be abolished, and an indoor system was established. The 'principle of less eligibility' was put into practice |
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When was the Municipal Corporations Act? |
1835; Gave the new councils powers to carry out certain improvements, but were capped due to financial constraint |
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How much was granted in provision of schools?How much did it rise to? |
£20,000 in 1833, grew to £30,000 in 1839 |
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When was the factory education bill passed? |
1834, by James Graham |
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How much was paid in compensation to the slave owners in the British Empire? |
£20,000,000, or 40% of the government annual expenditure. Henry Phillpotts was granted £12,700 |
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What year was the Great Reform Act passed? |
1832 |
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When was the London Working Man's Association formed? |
1836 |
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When was the six point People's Charter launched, and by who? |
William Lovett in 1838 |
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When was the first Chartist national petition rejected? |
1839 |
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When was the Newport Rising? |
1839; Hundred's of armed Chartist supporters were beaten down by 30 armed soldier, with 24 Chartist's killed. |
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When was the second Chartist petition rejected, leading to the Plug Plot riots? |
1842 |
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When was Young Ireland formed? |
During the 1840s, with the aim of repealing the Act of Union |
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What was the Anti Poor Law League? |
A protest movement against the proposal of an end to outdoor relief. Many families had been separated due to poor workhouse conditions. |
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What was the Anti-Corn Law league? |
Led by Richard Cobden and John Bright, set up in an attempt to repeal the 1815 Corn Laws, strongly supported by the middle classes. Formed in 1838 |
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What was the name of the document Peel created that outlined Conservatism? |
The 1834 Tamworth Manifesto |
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What year did the state start registering births, deaths and marriages? |
1836 Births, Deaths and Marriages Act |
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When was Queen Victoria coronated? |
1837 |
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What year was the Established Church Act signed? |
1836, made the ecclesiastical commission permanent and empowered reform |
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When was the Irish Title Act signed? |
1838 |
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What year were the Corn Laws repealed? |
1846, leading to the resignation of Peel |
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How many men returned from the Napoleonic Wars expecting work? |
300,000 men |
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What treaty was signed in 1802 halted the Napoleonic War? |
The Treaty of Amiens |
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Who succeeded Pitt as PM? |
Henry Addington, 1801-04 |
