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Quiz by kirsty-marie-bar, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by kirsty-marie-bar
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Question 1
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What percentage did Clapham (1926) say real wages increased by?
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50%
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30%
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40%
Question 2
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Who said the industrial revolution was progress and a nation in which everyone shared the spoils?
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Colquhoun
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Ure
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Toynbee
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Ashton
Question 3
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Who coined the term 'the condition on England' in 1839?
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Michael Sadler
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Richard Oastler
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Thomas Carlyle
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Karl Marx
Question 4
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Which statement is true of Rule (1991) findings?
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London wages fell, south wages dropped dramatically and wages in the north increased.
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London wages rose, south wages dropped dramatically and wages in the north increased.
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London wages rose, south wages rosedropped dramatically and wages in the north increased.
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London wages fell, south wages dropped dramatically and wages in the north decreased slightly.
Question 5
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Komlos questioned which findings?
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Horrell and Humphries household budgets
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Nicholas and Steckle (1991) fall in heights to convicts sent to Australia
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Floud, Watcher and Gregory (1990) rich were taller than the poor and all wages fell after 1830.
Question 6
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What do left wing pessimist historians during the cold war stress about the standard of living?
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Increase in mortality in urban areas
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More to standard of living than real wages
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Real wages remained low
Question 7
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How many out of Horrell and Humphries' 1350 household budgets were from Lancashire?
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867
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856
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786
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567
Question 8
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Which two groups did the Hammonds and Webbs look at?
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Coal miners
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Women
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Children
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Handloomers
Question 9
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Who claimed the Industrial Revolution was 'disastrous and terrible'?
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Toynbee
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Ure
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Ashton
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Hartwell
Question 10
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What do historians use to measure standard of living, tick all that apply.
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Real wages
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Consumption
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Anthropometrics (Heights)
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Weight
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Working conditions
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Life expectancy
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Food intake
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Army records
Question 11
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Richard Oastler compared the plight of factory children to west African slaves, True or False
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- True
- False
Question 12
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Michael Sadler's report showed the mechanized horrors of the industrial revolution, true or false?
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- True
- False
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