Lesson 1
1 Warfare and British society in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: The nature of warfare Quiz: Pearson Edexcel History, Unit 3
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The 20 questions
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What was the main role of town watchmen in early modern law enforcement?
- Prison guards
- Trial judges
- Patrolling streets
- Tax collectors
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Which infamous judicial expansion increased the number of capital crimes in eighteenth-century Britain?
- Assize courts
- Wergild laws
- Clergy benefits
- The Bloody Code
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What penal method introduced in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries involved sending convicts to America or Australia?
- Execution
- Exile
- Imprisonment
- Transportation
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Who was the notorious self-appointed Witchfinder General active between 1645 and 1647?
- Oliver Cromwell
- Guy Fawkes
- Matthew Hopkins
- Thomas More
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In what year did the Gunpowder Plot take place?
- 1605
- 1588
- 1666
- 1649
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Which punishment remained continuously in use throughout the early modern period for lesser offences?
- Corporal punishment
- Trial by ordeal
- Wergild fines
- Transportation
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Which crime specifically targeted religious non-conformity and challenges to the official Church?
- Vagabondage
- Heresy
- Smuggling
- Treason
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What local community group was expected to raise the hue and cry to catch fleeing criminals?
- Royal judges
- Town watchmen
- Villagers
- Standing army
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Which key individual was the primary target of the 1605 Gunpowder Plot?
- King Charles I
- Oliver Cromwell
- King James I
- Queen Elizabeth I
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Which industrial development directly increased the scale of military supply?
- Guild systems
- Manual weaving
- Hand tool creation
- Mass production
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Which factor linked technological growth with weapon changes c1700–c1900?
- Industrialisation
- Monasticism
- Manorialism
- Feudalism
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What major military development reduced the battlefield effectiveness of cavalry?
- Wooden shields
- Bronze armour
- Stone catapults
- Accurate firearms
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Which centuries are covered by the c1700–c1900 warfare topic?
- Twentieth and twenty-first
- Eleventh and twelfth
- Eighteenth and nineteenth
- Fifteenth and sixteenth
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How did growing artillery power change battlefield tactics?
- Distant bombardment
- Mounted charges
- Close-quarters swords
- Hand-to-hand combat
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Which industrial innovation dramatically sped up the movement of troops?
- Sailing galleys
- Horse-drawn carts
- Steam-powered transport
- Pack mules
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What tactical change was encouraged by long-range accurate firearms?
- Solid shoulder blocks
- Rigid lines
- Tightly packed squares
- Dispersed formations
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Which traditional combat unit saw a significant decline in this period?
- Infantry
- Cavalry
- Engineers
- Artillery
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The introduction of which weapons transformed nineteenth-century infantry?
- Bronze cannons
- Longbows
- Rifled firearms
- Crossbows
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Which force drove the transformation of weapons and transport c1700–c1900?
- Guild restrictions
- Manual crafts
- Industrial growth
- Agrarian stagnation
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Which change in weaponry is named for this period alongside steam transport?
- Field guns
- Crossbows
- Hand grenades
- Flamethrowers
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