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Quiz by istarinmcvicar, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by istarinmcvicar
over 10 years ago
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Question 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
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Females and males 18 over
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Adult males 40 over
Question 2
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What qualities did these voters have to have ?
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They had to be linked to property
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They had to be married
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They had to have parents who could vote
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They couldn't be middle class or lower class
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They had to earn a certain amount of money
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They had to be church of England
Question 3
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How many people as a percentage could vote in the UK at that time
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40% of men
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11% of men ( 5% of the population)
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100%
Question 4
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What was this as a fraction?
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16 out of 3000
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20000/3400000
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400,000/14million
Question 5
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What type of seats were there?
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Rotten borough and town state
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Borough and county
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Country and city
Question 6
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How many MPs did each county return regardless of population?
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5MPS
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2MPS
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1MP
Question 7
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How much land did a standard voter have to own?
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40 shillings worth (£2) a year
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100 shillings worth a year
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71 shillings worth a year
Question 8
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What was a borough?
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A town where more than 1000 people lived
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Where there was a town hall
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Anywhere which had been a town (had a royal charter) in the 15th century
Question 9
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Why did the middle classes and the lower classes find the constituency voting system unfair?
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As the constituency stretched abroad
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Because the constituency was only made up of 1 person in each town
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Because there was a huge variation in size and voting practise
Question 10
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How many voters were there in Liverpool and Bristol ?
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1 million
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5000
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10
Question 11
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How many voters were there in Old Sarum?
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100,000
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15
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7
Question 12
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So which towns had no representation?
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The growing industrial towns
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The small towns
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The towns in the outskirts if Britain
Question 13
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How many people lived in Lancashire and how many MPS did they have ?
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1800 and 24MPs
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1.3 million and 14MPs
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200 and 90MPs
Question 14
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How many people lived in Cornwall and how many MPS did they have?
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300,000 and 42MPS
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60 and 100MPS
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900,000 and 13MPs
Question 15
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How many MPs did Manchester and Leeds have?
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1MP
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10MPS
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0MPs
Question 16
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What did wealthy landowners do in the elections?
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They voted for who they wanted
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They controlled voters by the voters fear of losing their jobs otherwise
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They never voted
Question 17
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In 1800 why were half the MPs in parliament?
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Because of patronage
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Because they won by popularity
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They bribed
Question 18
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How many elections were contested ?
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All of them
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Half of them
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One third
Question 19
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Where was voting done?
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In 'Hustings'
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At home
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In the town hall
Question 20
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Voting was done in secret
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- True
- False
Question 21
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This sort of voting allowed wide spread bribery and corruption
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- True
- False
Question 22
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Who wanted parliamentary reform the most and why?
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The Upper class as they wanted even more power
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The radicals as they wanted chaos
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The middle classes as they had growing economic power but this was not matched by political power
Question 23
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Why was the system outdated?
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Women couldn't vote
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It was made a long time ago
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The system was not adapted to the immense economic and social changes brought with the industrial revolution
Question 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
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They could afford to look the best for the part
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As poor people annoyed them
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