British Depth History – Things You NEED to Know to DO WELL

THE LIBERAL REFORMS

1. Give 4 examples of negative things about living and working conditions in 1890.

2. What were the ‘sweated trades’?

3. Give 2 reasons why the work of social reformers like Charles Booth and Seebohm Rowntree was seen as reliable.

4. Describe 3 important findings that came out of the work of the social reformers.

5. Where did Rowntree conduct his research?

6. Why did this make his findings all the more shocking?

7. How did the work of John Galt show the upper classes that poorer people were from the ‘same species’?

8. Name 2 moral reasons why the Liberals introduced their welfare reforms.

9. Give 2 Nationalistic reasons.

10. Give 2 Political reasons.

11. Name the 2 Liberal politicians associated with the reforms, and give 2 reasons why they wanted them to happen.

12. Give 2 ways the reforms benefited children and 2 limitations as well.

13. How much did a person over 70 with no income receive per week for a pension?

14. How much did a married couple get?

15. Name one limitation in terms of the pension.

16. What did the government set up to help the unemployed find jobs?

17. What was the name of the Act that affected workers?

18. Who contributed to health insurance, and how much did each of them contribute?

19. How much did people get per week if they were sick, and for how long?

20. Name one limitation of Sick Pay.

21. Who contributed to unemployment benefit, and how much did each of them contribute?

22. How much did people get per week if they were unemployed, and for how long?

23. Why did people get less for being unemployed than when they were sick?

24. Name 3 groups of people that were unhappy with the Liberal Reforms, and for each group explain why.

HOW AND WHY DID WOMEN TRY TO WIN THE VOTE?

1. Give 3 examples of how women were second class citizens in the 1890s.

2. What was the most basic injustice for women in the 1890s?

3. By 1900, what kind of men could vote?

4. Give 4 reasons why women in 1900 said they should have the vote. Try and include reasons that are based on the right to equality between men and women, the idea that it would make the country run better, and that it would improve everyday life.

5. Give 4 reasons why people said they shouldn’t have the vote. Try and include reasons that are based on the fact that men and women aren’t equal, the idea that it would make the country run worse, and that it would ruin everyday life.

6. By what letters were the Suffragists also known?

7. What were their methods?

8. What were their strengths as a movement?

9. Who was their leader?

10. Why did the Conservatives not really want women to get the vote?

11. For what different reasons did the Liberals not really want women to get the vote?

12. How many times did the bill for women’s suffrage go to parliament before 1900, and how many times was it defeated?

13. By what letters were the Suffragettes also known?

14. What were their methods?

15. What were their strengths as a movement?

16. Who was their leader?

17. When did Direct Action begin?

18. What happened to the relationships between the Suffragettes and Suffragists?

19. When was the Conciliation bill put to parliament, and what happened to it?

20. What was the reaction to this?

21. What was the Cat and Mouse Act, and why was it introduced?

22. Who was Emily Davison?

23. What happened to her in 1913?

24. What did the Suffragette Movement turn her into afterwards?

25. Give 3 examples of ways in which the Suffragettes were effective.

26. Give 3 ways in which they weren’t effective.

27. Give 3 examples of ways in which the Suffragists were effective.

28. Give 3 ways in which they weren’t effective.

THE HOME FRONT

1. What is the meaning of ‘Total War’?

2. How and where were British civilians (i.e. not soldiers, just normal people) attacked by Germans in 1914 / 15?

3. What was the problem with the British army at the start of the war?

4. How did the government, particularly the Secretary of State for War Lord Kitchener, try to solve this?

5. How successful was he? Give statistics.

6. When was conscription introduced?

7. Why was conscription introduced?

8. Who did conscription affect?

9. What is ‘conchy’ the short name for?

10. Why did these conchies refuse to fight?

11. How many of them were there?

12. How were they treated in general?

13. What does DORA stand for?

14. What did it allow the government to do?

15. When, and what, was the Munitions Crisis?

16. Who was made Minister of Munitions?

17. What did he do to solve this problem?

18. Show some statistics to show how successful he was.

19. How did Germany threaten Britain’s food supplies?

20. In what ways was the food situation difficult in 1917?

21. Describe 5 ways in which the government tried to solve this problem.

22. When was rationing introduced?

23. What was people’s reaction to it?

24. What did the government do with ‘bad news’?

25. Were journalists allowed at the front, and which type of journalist, and when?

26. How did the newspapers help the government?

27. Give 2 examples of ways in which the government censored people or publications.

28. Give an example of how authors supported the war.

29. How were children targeted into supporting the war?

30. Did the government have to force people to make propaganda films?

31. How many people watched ‘For the Empire’?

32. Why was the Battle of the Somme seen as a propaganda triumph?

33. Why do we know it was popular?

34. Why is it difficult to tell how effective propaganda was?

35. What was the public’s attitude to the war between 1914 and 1916?

36. Give 2 examples of people who objected to the war in 1914, and what happened to them.

37. Did people support the ‘conchies’?

38. How many ‘conchies’ were there?

39. What battle changed the public’s feelings about the war?

40. What was the general feeling of the public towards the war between 1916 and 1918?

41. Which famous figure criticised the war in 1917, and how?

42. How did the government respond?

43. How did people greet the end of the war?

44. How did the Suffragists and Suffragettes greet the start of the war?

45. What was the Order of the White Feather, and what did it do?

46. How well did women fill the jobs in offices?

47. Why were people unsure about women going to work in munitions factories?

48. How did the government set an example and try to solve this?

49. How did women do in factories?

50. What were the dangers?

51. Give 3 other examples of jobs, formerly men-only jobs, which women started to do.

52. What kind of background were these working women mainly from?

53. Give 3 ways in which the political situation had changed enough by 1918 to give women the vote.

54. Which women got the vote in 1918? Who was left out?

55. In summary, what are the 3 big reasons for women being given the vote in 1918?