Lesson details

Key learning points

  1. In this lesson, we will learn about the Lancashire Cotton Famine and the Matchgirls strike. We will use these examples and knowledge from previous lessons to answer our enquiry question: how far did working conditions improve during the nineteenth century?

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5 Questions

Q1.
Which group of people wanted to reduce food prices by burning down barns and windmills?
Correct answer: Food Rioters
The Chartists
The Luddites
The Swing Rioters
Q2.
Which group of people destroyed stocking frames in 1811?
Food Rioters
The Chartists
Correct answer: The Luddites
The Swing Rioters
Q3.
Which group of people destroyed threshing machines in 1830?
Food Rioters
The Chartists
The Luddites
Correct answer: The Swing Rioters
Q4.
What did the Chartists want?
To abolish Parliament.
To destroy stocking frames and threshing machines.
To kill Queen Victoria.
Correct answer: Votes for all men aged 21 and over.
Q5.
In what ways were the Chartists different to earlier forms of popular protest?
Chartism was a middle-class movement
Correct answer: Chartism was a national movement
Chartists only lived in London
Chartists were only interested in politics

5 Questions

Q1.
What happened to the population of England between 1700 and 1870?
It decreased from 214,000 to 590,000
It increased from 5,900 to 214,0000
Correct answer: It increased from 5,900,000 to 21,400,000
It stayed the same at 5,900,000
Q2.
Which group of people destroyed stocking frames in 1811?
Food Rioters
The Chartists
Correct answer: The Luddites
The Swing Rioters
Q3.
Which of these was not an Act passed by the Whig government in the 1830s?
Correct answer: The Cheaper Railways Act (1831)
The Factory Act (1833)
The Great Reform Act (1832)
The New Poor Law (1834)
Q4.
In what ways were the Chartists different to earlier forms of popular protest?
Chartism was a middle-class movement
Correct answer: Chartism was a national movement
Chartists only lived in London
Chartists were only interested in politics
Q5.
Which group of people worked at the Bryant and May factory in 1888?
Criminals known as 'Matchthieves'
Elderly people known as 'MatchOAPs'
Men and boys known as 'Matchblokes'
Correct answer: Women and girls known as 'Matchgirls'

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UnitHistory / How far did working conditions improve over the nineteenth century?

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