Riots

Question 1

Give 3 reasons why workers were unhappy during the early 19th Century.

Answer 1

Price of bread, corn laws, population rise, urbanisation, mechanisation, war with France, living conditions, unemployment, game laws, repression by government

Question 2

.What name was given to the people who smashed machinery in mills and what was the origin of the name?

Answer 2

Luddites, Ned Ludd said to be first person to smash machinery

Question 3

Where did the aforementioned protest start and why?

Luddites

Answer 3

Nottinghamshire to protest about the introduction of power looms and loss of earnings

Question 4

Between what dates did this protest take place?

Luddites

Answer 4

1817

Question 5

Where were the Blanketeers headed and why?

Answer 5

Hunger march to present petition to the Prince Regent by textile workers

Question 6

How did the government respond to the Blanketeers?

Answer 6

Spies, troops sent in, only got to Manchester, marchers arrested

Question 7

.What does suspension of Habeas Corpus mean and when did it happen?

Answer 7

Right to a trail, 1816/17

Question 8

What was the name of the government spy who acted as agent provocateur during the Pentridge Rising?

Answer 8

Oliver

Question 9

When did the Pentridge Rising take place?

Answer 9

1817

Question 10

Who led the Pentridge Rising and what happened to him?

Answer 10

Jeremiah Brandreth, hanged

Question 11

Who was Captain Swing and what did he want?

Answer 11

Mythical figure, protesting agricultural workers at threshing machines.

Question 12

Where was Captain Swing operating?

Answer 12

S.E. England (Kent, Sussex, Wiltshire, Berkshire, Hampshire) and E England (Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, Norfolk)

Question 13

.What was the size of the population in 1815 in Britain and by how much had it grown since 1750?

Answer 13

11 million from 7.5 million

Question 14

Name 2 new industrial cities in the early 19th Century.

Answer 14

Manchester, Leeds, Sheffield, Bolton

Question 15

How did the government protect wheat prices and in what year?

Answer 15

1815 Corn Laws

Question 16

Where and when did the Peterloo Massacre take place?

Answer 16

St Peter’s Fields Manchester, 1819

Question 17

.What was the name of the radical who was addressing the crowd at Peterloo?

Answer 17

Henry Hunt

Question 18

Name 2 of the ways the government responded to the Peterloo Massacre in the Six Acts.

Answer 18

speedy trials, increased penalties for seditious libel, stamp duty imposed on all magazines, public meetings limited, training of people to use firearms prohibited, magistrates given increased power to search properties