Lesson Y8-U05-L01

Who Could Vote in 1800 Quiz: KS3 History, Unit 11

20 questions

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Lesson Y8-U05-L01, Who Could Vote in 1800: 20 multiple choice questions for the KS3 History (National Curriculum), Unit 11: Year 8: Suffrage, written with Revision Ninja.

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The 20 questions

  1. What does the historical term 'suffrage' mean?

    • Right to a fair trial
    • Right to own property
    • Right to vote
    • Right to free speech

  2. What is the term for an area that elects its own MP to Parliament?

    • Parish
    • Constituency
    • Colony
    • Monarchy

  3. What term describes all the people who are legally allowed to vote in an election?

    • Monarchy
    • Electorate
    • Cabinet
    • Parliament

  4. What was a 'rotten borough' in the unreformed electoral system?

    • Tiny depopulated constituency
    • Wealthy farming village
    • Foreign overseas territory
    • Large industrial city

  5. Which notorious rotten borough had no residents yet still elected two MPs in 1800?

    • Manchester
    • Old Sarum
    • Sheffield
    • Birmingham

  6. What was an election constituency controlled by a single wealthy landowner called?

    • Open borough
    • Rotten borough
    • Pocket borough
    • County seat

  7. Roughly how many people could vote in 1800, in a country of about 8 million people?

    • About 40,000 people
    • About 400,000 people
    • About 4 million people
    • About 8 million people

  8. How many MPs did Manchester have in 1800 despite its massive population?

    • Zero
    • Two
    • Ten
    • Four

  9. What was the wooden platform where voters publicly announced their choice called?

    • Hustings
    • Polling booth
    • Rotten borough
    • Gallows

  10. What term described using drink, money, and violence to win votes in Georgian elections?

    • Bribing
    • Treating
    • Lobbying
    • Canvassing

  11. Which feature of early 19th-century elections allowed landlords to easily intimidate voters?

    • Secret ballot
    • Electronic voting
    • Public voting
    • Postal voting

  12. Which law removed rotten boroughs and gave MPs to growing industrial cities in 1832?

    • Parliament Act
    • Representation Act
    • Great Reform Act
    • People's Charter

  13. Roughly how many voters were there in Britain after the Great Reform Act of 1832?

    • 5 million
    • 400,000
    • 100,000
    • 650,000

  14. Which major voting reform was completely absent from the 1832 Act?

    • Wider franchise
    • New MPs
    • Secret ballot
    • Fewer boroughs

  15. Which demand in the People's Charter of 1838 called for voting in private?

    • Annual elections
    • The secret ballot
    • Equal constituencies
    • Payment for MPs

  16. Which Chartist demand aimed to allow ordinary working men to become MPs?

    • Universal suffrage
    • No property qualification
    • Annual Parliaments
    • Secret ballot

  17. Which major group was excluded from voting by the 1832 Reform Act?

    • Working-class men
    • Factory owners
    • Wealthy landowners
    • Industrial middle class

  18. What did the Chartists argue that a man without the vote essentially was?

    • A slave
    • A taxpayer
    • A soldier
    • A citizen

  19. What was the main reason conservative MPs opposed giving all men the vote in the 1840s?

    • Foreign threats
    • Cost of elections
    • Lack of schools
    • Fear of the poor

  20. What potential issue must a historian consider when using an MP's anti-Chartist speech from 1842?

    • Forged signature
    • Incorrect date
    • Political bias
    • Modern translation

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