Lesson Y8-U04-L07

Y8-U04-L07 Protest and Reform Fighting Back Quiz: KS3 History, Unit 10

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Lesson Y8-U04-L07, Protest and Reform Fighting Back: 20 multiple choice questions for the KS3 History (National Curriculum), Unit 10: Year 8: Industrial Revolution, written with Revision Ninja.

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The 20 questions

  1. What is a 'trade union'?

    • A team of soldiers sent by the government to keep order in the towns
    • A group of workers who join together to demand better pay and conditions
    • A group of factory owners who agree the wages that all their workers will receive
    • A council of MPs who decide which laws will be debated in Parliament

  2. What does 'massacre' mean?

    • A large public protest in which many people shouted slogans at the government
    • A strike in which workers stopped work for several days in a row
    • The killing of many people who cannot defend themselves
    • A trial in which many workers were found guilty of breaking the law

  3. What did the Combination Acts of 1799-1800 do?

    • They made it illegal for workers to join together to demand more pay
    • They set a national minimum wage for every worker in the factories
    • They banned factory owners from cutting wages without warning their workers
    • They gave workers the right to vote in every election across the country

  4. Who were the Luddites?

    • Skilled textile workers who smashed the new machines that were destroying their trade between 1811 and 1816
    • Factory owners who hired soldiers to guard their steam engines, and who paid magistrates to arrest complaining workers
    • Farmers who burned the crops of landowners who had enclosed their fields
    • Members of Parliament who passed the Six Acts to crush protests in 1819

  5. Which made-up leader did the Luddites claim to follow?

    • Thomas Clarkson
    • Henry Hunt
    • Richard Arkwright
    • General Ned Ludd

  6. Roughly how many soldiers did the government send to deal with the Luddites?

    • About 12,000
    • About 120,000
    • About 1,200
    • About 1,200,000

  7. In 1812, what did the government make punishable by death?

    • Holding a peaceful public meeting
    • Speaking against the factory owners in print
    • Machine-breaking
    • Joining a trade union

  8. Where and when did the Peterloo massacre take place?

    • The Bristol docks, on 16 August 1819
    • St Peter's Square in Leeds, on 16 August 1848
    • St Peter's Field in Manchester, on 16 August 1819
    • Hyde Park in London, on 16 August 1832

  9. About how many people gathered peacefully at Peterloo?

    • About 16,000
    • About 600,000
    • About 6,000
    • About 60,000

  10. Who was the speaker that the Peterloo crowd had come to hear?

    • Edwin Chadwick
    • Henry 'Orator' Hunt
    • Thomas Clarkson
    • George Stephenson

  11. Roughly how many people were killed at Peterloo?

    • About 18
    • About 8
    • About 180
    • About 1,800

  12. Why was the event at St Peter's Field named 'Peterloo'?

    • Because the authorities gave the protesters a medal for their courage that day
    • Because the crowd was led by a soldier who had fought at the Battle of Waterloo
    • As a bitter joke on the Battle of Waterloo (1815)
    • Because the field was named after a Manchester landowner called Peter Loo

  13. What were the 'Six Acts' passed by the government after Peterloo?

    • Six Acts that raised wages for all workers in the new factory towns
    • Harsh laws that aimed to crush protest rather than listen to the reformers
    • Six new laws that gave every worker the right to vote in local elections
    • Six laws that banned the building of any new factories in the north

  14. What punishment did the Tolpuddle Martyrs receive in 1834?

    • Execution by hanging on a public scaffold in Dorset
    • A fine of one year's wages for every member of their union
    • Transportation to Australia for swearing a union oath
    • Imprisonment in a factory for ten years of forced labour

  15. What did the 1824-25 repeal of the Combination Acts allow workers to do?

    • Organise together legally, as trade unions became legal, with some limits
    • Own their own factories and machines without paying any rent
    • Refuse to work on Sundays without losing any of their pay
    • Vote in general elections for the first time in British history

  16. Why did the peaceful Peterloo crowd shock the nation?

    • The crowd had planned to burn down the factories in the Manchester area
    • The crowd was made up of soldiers who refused to obey their officers
    • The crowd was armed with knives and attacked the magistrates first
    • An unarmed and peaceful crowd was attacked, which built support for reform

  17. A historian says protest and law both changed Britain. Which example shows change through law?

    • The Peterloo march of 1819 that gathered 60,000 people in Manchester
    • The Combination Acts of 1799 that banned workers from joining together
    • The Luddite attacks of 1811 to 1816 that smashed machines across the Midlands
    • The Ten Hours Act of 1847, which limited women and young people in factories to a ten-hour day

  18. Why did the Luddites smash the machines in the mills?

    • The machines were destroying their skilled, well-paid work and cutting their wages
    • The machines had been stolen from the factory owners by the Luddites themselves
    • The machines were the property of the government, which had banned them
    • The machines were making cloth that was unsafe to wear in the cold weather

  19. What did the Factory Act of 1833 introduce that made it different from earlier laws?

    • The legal right for every worker to join a trade union and to strike for better pay
    • A ten-hour working day for every adult worker in every textile mill in the country
    • A complete ban on all child labour in every factory across the whole of Britain
    • Factory inspectors, who were appointed to check and enforce the rules

  20. Why was reform described as 'slow, but it stuck'?

    • Change came from one single Act of Parliament passed in the year 1800
    • Change came only through violence, which was quick but caused long-term damage
    • Change came through organising, petitioning and law, which lasted longer than smashing machines
    • Change was blocked for a century because Parliament never listened to any workers

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