17.P Harsh Treatment Most Significant Response To Poverty 34-70

Question 1

What are the 3 factors for this question?

Answer 1

Harsh response (PLAA)
Growth of Charity
Changing ideologies

Question 2

Harsh PLAA

How many commissioners in charge of the poor laws system?

Answer 2

3 commissioners and 9 assistants

Question 3

Harsh PLAA

When was outdoor relief banned?

Answer 3

1844 Outdoor Relief Prohibitory Act

Question 4

Harsh PLAA

Who lobbied Parliament against the introduction of the PLAA?

Answer 4

Oastler

Question 5

Harsh PLAA

When was outdoor relief allowed again? Why?

Answer 5

1852 Outdoor Relief Regulation Act

Perhaps cost - 4s8d indoor compared to 2s3d outdoor

Question 6

Growth of charity

When did Angela Burdett Coutts open Urania cottage? What else did she do?

Answer 6

1858
Helped find boys positions in the army to keep them out of workhouses

Question 7

Charity

When was the workhouse visiting society created? By who?

Answer 7

1858

Louisa Twining

Question 8

Charity

When did Barnardo set up his ‘ragged school’ for children?

Answer 8

1867

Question 9

Changing ideology

Utilitarianism - when was Bentham secretary for the Poor Law Commission between?

Answer 9

1834-37

Question 10

Ideologies

How was Bentham significant to the PLAA?

Answer 10

He had been secretary to the royal commission into operation of the poor laws between 1832-34

Question 11

Changing ideologies

When was self help published by smiles?

Answer 11

1859

Question 12

Changing ideologies

When did dickens publish Hard Times? How was it accessible?

Answer 12

1854
It was periodical

Question 13

Changing ideologies

When did Gaskell publish Mary Barton?

Answer 13

1848