Fact Test Part 2

Question 1

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

Answer 1

Oliver

Question 2

When did the Pentridge Rising take place?

Answer 2

1817

Question 3

Who led the Pentridge Rising and what happened to him?

Answer 3

Jeremiah Brandreth, hanged

Question 4

Who was Captain Swing and what did he want?

Answer 4

Mythical figure, protesting agricultural workers at threshing machines.

Question 5

Where was Captain Swing operating?

Answer 5

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

Question 6

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

Answer 6

11 million from 7.5 million

Question 7

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

Answer 7

Manchester, Leeds, Sheffield, Bolton

Question 8

How did the government protect wheat prices and in what year

Answer 8

1815 Corn Laws

Question 9

Where and when did the Peterloo Massacre take place

Answer 9

St Peter’s Fields Manchester, 1819

Question 10

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

Answer 10

Henry Hunt

Question 11

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

Answer 11

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