Society

Question 1

What does society mean?

Answer 1

The population and the groups it can be split into i.e gentry and aristocracy

Question 2

What are three factors that affect population size?

Answer 2

Migration
Death rate
Birth rate

Question 3

What was the size of the population in 1348?

Answer 3

4.8 million

Question 4

What was the size of the population in 1430?

Answer 4

2.2 million

Question 5

Why did the population size fall between 1300-1500?

Answer 5

The Black Death

Question 6

What was the size of the population in 1600?

Answer 6

4.1 million

Question 7

What was the size of the population in 1650?

Answer 7

5.3 million

Question 8

What was the size of the population in 1700?

Answer 8

5.2 million

Question 9

When does the population size recover from the Black Death?

Answer 9

1625

Question 10

What fraction of Londoners does the Great Plague kill?

Answer 10

1/5

Question 11

What is subsistence farming?

Answer 11

Farming to look after the household and leaving little for trade

Question 12

What part of England remained largely uninhabited?

Answer 12

The north

Question 13

What class grew rapidly since 1500?

Answer 13

The gentry and merchant class

Question 14

Why were there occasionally bursts in population size?

Answer 14

Huguenots and Americas being discovered

Question 15

What percentage of Norwich was made up of migrants?

Answer 15

35%

Question 16

Why did fertility rates fall between 1650 and 1700?

Answer 16

People were getting married later and having less children

Question 17

How big was London compared to the next biggest English city?

Answer 17

Ten times bigger

Question 18

What percentage of the population lived in London in 1700?

Answer 18

9%

Question 19

What percentage of the population lived in London in 1520?

Answer 19

2.75%

Question 20

How did London emerge as such a significant trade centre?

Answer 20

It has three rivers that surround it which made it defendable so the Romans, Anglo-Saxons and Normans built on

Question 21

Who were three notable members of the gentry?

Answer 21

John Pym, Oliver Cromwell, George Monck

Question 22

How many upper gentry were there ?

Answer 22

3,000

Question 23

How many lower gentry were there?

Answer 23

12,000

Question 24

How many people as well as upper and lower gentry were there in Yorkshire?

Answer 24

Population = 300,000
Upper Gentry = 256
Lower Gentry = 323

Question 25

What percentage of wealth belonged to the gentry?

Answer 25

50%

Question 26

What percentage of wealth belonged to the nobility?

Answer 26

15%

Question 27

Why did the influence of the gentry increase?

Answer 27

Their second and third sons became lawyers and politicians

Question 28

Why did the role of the gentry increase during the Civil War?

Answer 28

The role of parliament was more important so Charles 1 had to call on them for help

Question 29

What was Tawney's view on why the gentry grew?

Answer 29

The collapse of the nobility

Question 30

What was Trevor-Roper's view on why the gentry grew?

Answer 30

Their involvement in politics

Question 31

What were the two groups the poor could be split into?

Answer 31

The settled poor and the vagrant poor

Question 32

What were the settled poor?

Answer 32

Those who were established in one parish and did not move around to find work

Question 33

What were the vagrant poor?

Answer 33

Those who traditionally travelled in order to sustain themselves

Question 34

What percentage of the population were arrested for vagrancy in the 1630s?

Answer 34

0.5%

Question 35

What percentage of village population became slaves?

Answer 35

40%

Question 36

What were the advantages of becoming a slave?

Answer 36

Free housing, clothing, food and safeguarding from inflation

Question 37

What fraction of village population left to find work elsewhere?

Answer 37

1/3

Question 38

How many people went to America with the Puritans?

Answer 38

200,000

Question 39

How is poverty dealt with in the 1600s?

Answer 39

Elizabethan Poor Laws in 1601 - tax to parishes to help the unemployed

Question 40

What fraction of the urban population lived near the poverty line?

Answer 40

2/3

Question 41

When was the Book of Orders and what did it include about poverty?

Answer 41

1631 - provisions on relief of poor and treatment vagrants

Question 42

What did the Act of 1601 do for poverty?

Answer 42

It allowed them to beg for food and set up poorhouses

Question 43

In 1650 how much was state relief?

Answer 43

£188,000

Question 44

When did the Cavalier Parliament pass the Poor Relief Act and what did it achieve?

Answer 44

1662 - stopped squatting and allowed vagrants to be sent back to their original parishes

Question 45

What percentage of London was burned down in the Great Fire?

Answer 45

60%

Question 46

Why and did the Huguenots moved to England?

Answer 46

1685 - The Edict of Nantes was torn up

Question 47

What and where did the Huguenots set up?

Answer 47

Silk industry in spitalfields

Question 48

What famous shipping company did the Huguenots set up?

Answer 48

Lords of London

Question 49

When was the Bank of England set up?

Answer 49

1694

Question 50

What percentage of British imports and exports were handled by London?

Answer 50

80% of imports and 69% of exports

Question 51

What happened when the Thames froze over and they couldn't transport goods?

Answer 51

They had frost fares