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Rights during the Industrial Period
Rights during the Industrial Period
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1
How did public protests influence reform?
They stopped people from voting.
They helped bring attention to unfair conditions.
They made people scared.
They increased factory production.
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Why were the Tolpuddle martyrs sent to Australia?
For refusing to pay taxes.
For protesting unfair working conditions.
For stealing food.
For avoiding the army.
3
What did ragged schools teach?
Reading, writing and religion.
Farming.
Fighting skills.
Languages only.
4
Why were some people unhappy with voting rights before 1832?
Only wealthy men could vote.
Too many people could vote.
Women had more rights than men.
The King chose the voters.
5
What did the Public Health Acts aim to improve?
Road safety.
City cleanliness and disease control.
Farming techniques.
Voting systems.
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Why were reforms needed in the 1800s?
The country was at war.
There was no government.
Society was unfair and many people had no rights.
Everyone was rich.
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Which group gained political power through the Reform Acts?
Lords.
Women.
Working-class men.
Children.
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What was the purpose of ragged schools?
To prepare children for war.
To train rich children in farming.
To give free education to poor children.
To punish misbehaving children.
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What does the word protest mean?
To write a newspaper.
To vote secretly.
To speak out or take action against something unfair.
To pay taxes.
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Who were the Tolpuddle Martyrs?
A group of politicians.
Factory owners.
Rich landowners.
Farm workers punished for forming a Union.
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What was a 'rotten borough'?
A town destroyed by fire.
A dirty city with poor housing.
A voting area with very few voters but still had an MP.
A prison for political rebels.
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What happened at the Peterloo Massacre in 1819?
A factory was set on fire.
A group of workers got new jobs.
People celebrated a new law.
A peaceful protest for voting rights was attacked by soldiers.
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What did the 1842 Mines Act ban?
The use of machines in mining.
Coal exports to Europe.
Mining on Sundays.
Children and women working underground.
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Who could vote after the Reform Act of 1832?
Some middle-class men.
Only women.
All men.
Children over ten.
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What is meant by the term 'rights'?
Jobs people are given.
Freedoms and protections everyone should have.
Laws made by the King.
Taxes paid to the government.
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Which act gave working-class men in towns the right to vote?
Mines Act 1842.
Public Health Act 1875.
Reform Act 1832.
Reform Act 1867.
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Which law helped improved sewage and water systems?
Mines Act.
Education Act.
Public Health Act.
Factory Act.
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Which group was still not allowed to vote by the end of the 1800s?
Women.
Factory owners.
Working-class men.
Middle-class men.
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What is democracy?
A type of religion.
A law about factories.
A system where people have a say in how the country is run.
Rule by one person.
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What was the aim of the Factory Acts?
To improve working conditions in factories.
To lower taxes.
To allow more factories to open.
To stop people from voting.
