Industrialisation and the people - Key Individuals

Question 1

What was Bessemer famous for?

Accepted Answer

cheap industrial process for mass production of steel

Question 2

What was the name of the key speaker in St Peter's Fields before the massacre of 1819?

Accepted Answer

Henry Hunt

Question 3

Who engineered the steamer the SS Great Britain?

Accepted Answer

Kingdom Brunel

Question 4

What was the other name for lord Anthony Ashley Cooper?

Accepted Answer

Lord Shaftesbury

Question 5

Which Prime Minister wrote Sybil and Two Nations

Accepted Answer

Disraeli

Question 6

Who invented the Spinning Mule?

Accepted Answer

Crompton

Question 7

Who was responsible for building the sewers in London in the 1860s?

Accepted Answer

Joseph Bazalgette

Question 8

Who wrote the Origin of the Species in 1859?

Accepted Answer

Darwin

Question 9

Which Italian was part of the surge for reform when he gave his speech at the Crystal palace

Accepted Answer

Giuseppe Garibaldi

Question 10

Which Prime Minister is responsible for getting the Great Reform Act passed in 1832?

Accepted Answer

Grey

Question 11

Who were the two separate leaders of the Chartist movement?

Accepted Answer

O'Connor and William Lovett

Question 12

Which factory owner is credited for beginning the early co-operative movement?

Accepted Answer

Robert Owen

Question 13

Who started the Salvation Army in 1878?

Accepted Answer

Booth

Question 14

What was the name of William Cobbett's radical newspaper?

Accepted Answer

Political register

Question 15

What was the name of the group of artists who became prominent by the end of the 19th century?

Accepted Answer

pre-Raphaelites

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