1F.1.1 Impact of industrialisation in Britain, c1783–1832 Quiz: AQA History, Unit 6

The 20 questions

1. Which statesman took office as Prime Minister in December 1783 aged 24?

   • Lord North
   • William Pitt the Elder
   • Charles James Fox
   • William Pitt the Younger

2. Which 1786 agreement between Britain and France lowered tariffs to encourage mutual trade?

   • The Amiens Treaty
   • The Methuen Treaty
   • The Paris Treaty
   • The Eden Treaty

3. Which Acts of 1799 and 1800 banned combinations of workers to press for better wages and conditions?

   • The Six Acts
   • The Corn Laws
   • The Factory Acts
   • The Combination Acts

4. Which year saw Pitt introduce a tax on income, intended to pay for the war against France?

   • 1799
   • 1812
   • 1786
   • 1783

5. Which 1800 legislation united Great Britain and Ireland into a single kingdom?

   • Act of Union
   • The Declaratory Act
   • The Reform Act
   • Catholic Relief Act

6. Which inventor of 1769 patented a water-powered spinning frame that allowed cotton to be spun on an industrial scale?

   • Richard Arkwright
   • Samuel Crompton
   • Edmund Cartwright
   • James Hargreaves

7. Which invention of 1779, combining features of the spinning jenny and water frame, produced finer yarn?

   • The flying shuttle
   • The power loom
   • The spinning mule
   • The threshing machine

8. Which inventor improved the steam engine in the 1760s and 1770s, providing the power source that industrialisation later depended on?

   • Thomas Newcomen
   • James Watt
   • Richard Trevithick
   • George Stephenson

9. Which group of 19th-century textile workers smashed industrial machinery to protest low wages?

   • Levellers
   • Diggers
   • Luddites
   • Chartists

10. Which 1815 legislation imposed tariffs on foreign grain to protect British agricultural prices?

    • The Navigation Act
    • The Corn Law
    • The Poor Law
    • The Combination Act

11. Which massacre of 1819 in Manchester saw cavalry charge a political meeting, killing and injuring many people?

    • Peterloo
    • Swing Riots
    • Tolpuddle
    • Bristol Riots

12. Which Acts of 1819 restricted public meetings and radical publications after the Peterloo disturbances?

    • The Reform Acts
    • The Six Acts
    • The Corn Laws
    • The Combination Acts

13. Which Prime Minister, who held office from 1812 to 1827, led a government that followed a policy of repression alongside gradual economic reform?

    • Lord Grey
    • Lord North
    • Lord Liverpool
    • Lord Melbourne

14. Which 1819 Act restricted child labour in cotton mills to twelve hours a day?

    • Mines Act 1842
    • Factory Act 1833
    • Ten Hours Act
    • Factory Act 1819

15. How many years separated the Combination Acts of 1799 and their repeal in 1824?

    • 30 years
    • 20 years
    • 25 years
    • 35 years

16. How many years separated Pitt's first appointment as Prime Minister in 1783 and the Act of Union in 1800?

    • 17 years
    • 27 years
    • 21 years
    • 13 years

17. Which social group benefited most from the protective tariffs imposed by the 1815 Corn Law?

    • Textile manufacturers
    • Landowners
    • Urban workers
    • Merchant seamen

18. Which 1819 demonstration in Manchester ended in cavalry charging peaceful working-class protesters?

    • Rebecca Riots
    • Blanketeers March
    • Pentrich Rising
    • Peterloo Massacre

19. Which legal right did Pitt's government suspend in 1794 to detain radical reformers without trial?

    • Freedom of speech
    • Magna Carta
    • Habeas Corpus
    • Trial by jury

20. Which new direct tax was introduced by William Pitt in 1799 to fund the war against France?

    • Window tax
    • Land tax
    • Income tax
    • Stamp duty

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