Knowledge Test

Question 1

What are some examples of sweated industry?

Answer 1

Making clothes, stuffing mattresses and making match boxes

Question 2

Where did the poor have to go if they wanted help?

Answer 2

Workhouse

Question 3

What were you labelled if you revived relief?

Answer 3

Pauper

Question 4

Making clothes, stuffing mattresses and making match boxes are all examples of what in the 1890s?

Answer 4

Sweated industry

Question 5

Which monarch died in 1901?

Answer 5

Queen Victoria

Question 6

When was Banardo’s set up?

Answer 6

1867

Question 7

Which charity was set up in 1867 to help children?

Answer 7

Banardo’s

Question 8

What percentage of old people received relief in the 1890s?

Answer 8

20-40%

Question 9

What organisation was started by the booths?

Answer 9

Salvation Army

Question 10

In which city did Charles Booth investigate poverty in?

Answer 10

London

Question 11

How long was Charles Booth’s investigation into London’s poverty?

Answer 11

17 years

Question 12

In which city did Rowntree investigate poverty in?

Answer 12

York

Question 13

What percentage of York did Rowntree find to be living in Poverty?

Answer 13

28%

Question 14

Which party were socialist?

Answer 14

Labour

Question 15

Which party believed in Laissez Faire?

Answer 15

Conservatives

Question 16

Give two examples of conservative orientated publications?

Answer 16

Punch and the times

Question 17

Which country had overtaken the UK industrial by 1900?

Answer 17

Germany

Question 18

Name two New Liberals

Answer 18

Lloyd George and Herbert Asquith

Question 19

What were the dates of the Boer War?

Answer 19

1899 to 1902

Question 20

What did the Boer war highlight?

Answer 20

The weaknesses of the British army

Question 21

When was the labour party formed?

Answer 21

1900

Question 22

When was the labour party formed?

Answer 22

1900

Question 23

What percentage of wealth was owned by the top 1% of the population?

Answer 23

55%

Question 24

When were free school meals introduced?

Answer 24

1906

Question 25

When were pensions started?

Answer 25

January 1st 1090

Question 26

When were school medical inspections introduced?

Answer 26

1907

Question 27

When was the eduction act?

Answer 27

1907

Question 28

What percentage of places were allocated to poor children as a result of the 1907 education act?

Answer 28

25%

Question 29

How many people claimed pensions within the first year?

Answer 29

650 000

Question 30

How many children claimed free school meals?

Answer 30

158 000

Question 31

How much did workers pay towards National insurance for sickness?

Answer 31

40%

Question 32

How much were pensions in 1909?

Answer 32

5 shillings

Question 33

How old did you have to be to get a pension?

Answer 33

70

Question 34

When were school clinics introduced?

Answer 34

1912

Question 35

How many labour exchanges were set up by 1914?

Answer 35

400

Question 36

What did the Trades Boards Act do?

Answer 36

Introduce a minimum wage into sweated industry

Question 37

How many people were covered by National Insurance part 2?

Answer 37

2.23 million

Question 38

Who objected to the 1909 people's budget?

Answer 38

Lloyd George

Question 39

When was Asquith Prime minister?

Answer 39

1908-1916

Question 40

Who toured the country gaining support for the budget?

Answer 40

Herbert Asquith

Question 41

Who was prime minister between 1908 and 1916?

Answer 41

Herbert Asquith

Question 42

What job did Lloyd George for the majority of our study period?

Answer 42

Chancellor of the Exchequer

Question 43

What did the conservatives fear that the Liberal reforms would turn the country into?

Answer 43

A Nanny State