Eighteenth Century Britain

Question 1

Why did large numbers of people start moving to towns and cities in the eighteenth century?

Answer 1

• because of industrial revolution

* production in Britain moved to large scale factory instead of experienced workers making items on a smaller scale

Question 2

Why were some people forced to turn to crime as a result of the industrial revolution?

Answer 2

•in more rural areas, the variation to farm life left many workers without proper work to support their families

Question 3

What was the bloody code?

Answer 3

The Bloody Code was a list of crimes punishable by death

-included over 200 separate capital offences

Question 4

Give examples of the bloody code

Answer 4

• being out at night with a blackened face
• being on the company of gipsies for a month
• general poaching
• pick-pocketing

Question 5

Why were executions held in public?

Answer 5

•to discourage and refrain those that were watching, to do certain actions or behaviours
deterrent

Question 6

What were hulks?

Answer 6

• old merchant or naval ships which were no longer seaworthy but could still float safely in a harbour
• they were used because prisons became full

Question 7

Describe the conditions on hulks

Answer 7

Conditions were terrible
•ships were overcrowded and cramped-not enough space to even stand up
•prisoners packed so tightly that diseases(typhoid, dysentery, cholera) spread easily and treatable illness was ignored
•hulks were dark and rat-infested
•food an water given to prisoners was likely to be contaminated with human waste

Question 8

How many prisoners died on hulks?

Answer 8

2000 out of 6000 prisoners died on hulks between 1776 and 1795