Key Words

Question 1

Aristocracy

Answer 1

They were the highest class in certain societies, typically comprising people of noble birth holding hereditary titles and offices.

Question 2

Habeas corpus

Answer 2

Act passed in 1679 entitling all those charged with a crime to a lawful hearing before being detained

Question 3

Sedition

Answer 3

Actions which incited people to rebel against the authority of a government.

Question 4

Yeomanry

Answer 4

A volunteer cavalry force raised from small landowners

Question 5

Radicalism

Answer 5

Name given to the movement that developed in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to campaign for reform to the electoral system.

Question 6

Suffrage

Answer 6

The right to vote in political elections.

Question 7

Hereditary

Answer 7

A title or right ya that are passed by inheritance.

Question 8

Agitation

Answer 8

An attempt to stir up public concern about an issue and press action on it.

Question 9

Conservatism

Answer 9

Political ideology which promotes the maintenance of traditions and status quo.

Question 10

Tyranny

Answer 10

Cruel and oppressive government

Question 11

Petition

Answer 11

A formal request to a higher authority, often in the form of a document