The electoral system before 1832- THE REASONS FOR THE GROWTH OF THE PARLIAMENTARY REFORM SYSTEM

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Why the electoral system was out of date
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Frage 1

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Which gender could vote and how old did they have to be?
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  • Adult males over 21
  • Females and males 18 over
  • Adult males 40 over

Frage 2

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What qualities did these voters have to have ?
Antworten
  • They had to be linked to property
  • They had to be married
  • They had to have parents who could vote
  • They couldn't be middle class or lower class
  • They had to earn a certain amount of money
  • They had to be church of England

Frage 3

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How many people as a percentage could vote in the UK at that time
Antworten
  • 40% of men
  • 11% of men ( 5% of the population)
  • 100%

Frage 4

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What was this as a fraction?
Antworten
  • 16 out of 3000
  • 20000/3400000
  • 400,000/14million

Frage 5

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What type of seats were there?
Antworten
  • Rotten borough and town state
  • Borough and county
  • Country and city

Frage 6

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How many MPs did each county return regardless of population?
Antworten
  • 5MPS
  • 2MPS
  • 1MP

Frage 7

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How much land did a standard voter have to own?
Antworten
  • 40 shillings worth (£2) a year
  • 100 shillings worth a year
  • 71 shillings worth a year

Frage 8

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What was a borough?
Antworten
  • A town where more than 1000 people lived
  • Where there was a town hall
  • Anywhere which had been a town (had a royal charter) in the 15th century

Frage 9

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Why did the middle classes and the lower classes find the constituency voting system unfair?
Antworten
  • As the constituency stretched abroad
  • Because the constituency was only made up of 1 person in each town
  • Because there was a huge variation in size and voting practise

Frage 10

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How many voters were there in Liverpool and Bristol ?
Antworten
  • 1 million
  • 5000
  • 10

Frage 11

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How many voters were there in Old Sarum?
Antworten
  • 100,000
  • 15
  • 7

Frage 12

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So which towns had no representation?
Antworten
  • The growing industrial towns
  • The small towns
  • The towns in the outskirts if Britain

Frage 13

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How many people lived in Lancashire and how many MPS did they have ?
Antworten
  • 1800 and 24MPs
  • 1.3 million and 14MPs
  • 200 and 90MPs

Frage 14

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How many people lived in Cornwall and how many MPS did they have?
Antworten
  • 300,000 and 42MPS
  • 60 and 100MPS
  • 900,000 and 13MPs

Frage 15

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How many MPs did Manchester and Leeds have?
Antworten
  • 1MP
  • 10MPS
  • 0MPs

Frage 16

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What did wealthy landowners do in the elections?
Antworten
  • They voted for who they wanted
  • They controlled voters by the voters fear of losing their jobs otherwise
  • They never voted

Frage 17

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In 1800 why were half the MPs in parliament?
Antworten
  • Because of patronage
  • Because they won by popularity
  • They bribed

Frage 18

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How many elections were contested ?
Antworten
  • All of them
  • Half of them
  • One third

Frage 19

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Where was voting done?
Antworten
  • In 'Hustings'
  • At home
  • In the town hall

Frage 20

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Voting was done in secret
Antworten
  • True
  • False

Frage 21

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This sort of voting allowed wide spread bribery and corruption
Antworten
  • True
  • False

Frage 22

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Who wanted parliamentary reform the most and why?
Antworten
  • The Upper class as they wanted even more power
  • The radicals as they wanted chaos
  • The middle classes as they had growing economic power but this was not matched by political power

Frage 23

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Why was the system outdated?
Antworten
  • Women couldn't vote
  • It was made a long time ago
  • The system was not adapted to the immense economic and social changes brought with the industrial revolution

Frage 24

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Why did the upper class believe they were best for voting?
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  • As they thought power should be held by the educated elite who would act in the best interests in the country as a whole
  • They could afford to look the best for the part
  • As poor people annoyed them
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