1F.2.1 The Age of Reform in Britain, 1832–1885 Quiz: AQA History, Unit 6

The 20 questions

1. Which Whig Prime Minister, Earl Grey, presided over the passing of the Great Reform Act of 1832?

   • Lord Melbourne
   • Sir Robert Peel
   • Lord Liverpool
   • Earl Grey

2. Which 1833 Act banned child labour under nine years old in most textile mills?

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

3. Which 1834 Act established parish unions and the modern workhouse system?

   • Public Health Act
   • Poor Law Amendment Act
   • Factory Act
   • Municipal Corporations Act

4. Which 1835 Act replaced corrupt closed corporations with elected local councils in British towns?

   • Municipal Corporations Act
   • Factory Act
   • Public Health Act
   • Poor Law Act

5. Which 1833 Act abolished slavery throughout most of the British Empire?

   • Slavery Abolition Act
   • Factory Act
   • Test Act
   • Slave Trade Act

6. Which 1838 document set out six main demands for British political reform?

   • People's Charter
   • Lichfield House Compact
   • Grand National Union
   • Tamworth Manifesto

7. Which organisation was founded in 1839 by Cobden and Bright to combat grain tariffs?

   • Fabian Society
   • Chartist Movement
   • Anti-Corn Law League
   • Birmingham Political Union

8. Which Conservative Prime Minister repealed the Corn Laws in 1846, dividing his party and ending his own government?

   • Lord Aberdeen
   • Sir Robert Peel
   • Lord Derby
   • Benjamin Disraeli

9. Which 1844 Act regulated banknote issue and reorganised the Bank of England?

   • Coinage Act
   • Companies Act
   • Bank Charter Act
   • Joint Stock Act

10. Which 1848 Act created a central Board of Health following Edwin Chadwick's campaign?

    • Artisans Dwellings Act
    • Public Health Act
    • Nuisances Removal Act
    • Clean Air Act

11. Which Prime Minister, a Conservative leader who carried the Second Reform Act of 1867, dominated politics in the 1870s and was a rival of Gladstone?

    • Benjamin Disraeli
    • Lord Palmerston
    • Lord Rosebery
    • Lord Salisbury

12. Which 1870 Act established elected school boards to expand elementary education in England?

    • Butler Education Act
    • Forster Education Act
    • Fisher Education Act
    • Balfour Education Act

13. Which 1872 Act introduced secret voting in British parliamentary and municipal elections?

    • Ballot Act
    • Reform Act
    • Redistribution Act
    • Corrupt Practices Act

14. Which 1884 Act extended household suffrage to male agricultural workers in counties?

    • Second Reform Act
    • Redistribution Act
    • Third Reform Act
    • Great Reform Act

15. How many years separated the Great Reform Act of 1832 and the Third Reform Act of 1884?

    • 72 years
    • 42 years
    • 52 years
    • 62 years

16. How many years separated the People's Charter of 1838 and the repeal of the Corn Laws in 1846?

    • 8 years
    • 12 years
    • 10 years
    • 5 years

17. What key requirement did the 1832 Reform Act retain, excluding most working-class men from voting?

    • Literacy test
    • Property qualification
    • Religious test
    • Military service

18. Which Chartist demand for election frequency was the only one never eventually adopted in Britain?

    • Universal male suffrage
    • Secret ballot
    • Annual parliaments
    • Equal constituencies

19. Which economic ideology did Robert Peel's 1840s commercial tariff reforms promote in Britain?

    • Mercantilism
    • Free trade
    • Collectivism
    • Protectionism

20. Which Whig Prime Minister headed the government from 1835 to 1841, after the Grey ministry had collapsed?

    • Lord Russell
    • Lord Melbourne
    • Lord Aberdeen
    • Lord Palmerston

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