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The electoral system before 1832- THE REASONS FOR THE GROWTH OF THE PARLIAMENTARY REFORM SYSTEM

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Which gender could vote and how old did they have to be?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • Adult males over 21

  • Females and males 18 over

  • Adult males 40 over

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Frage 2 von 24

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What qualities did these voters have to have ?

Wähle eine oder mehr der folgenden:

  • They had to be linked to property

  • They had to be married

  • They had to have parents who could vote

  • They couldn't be middle class or lower class

  • They had to earn a certain amount of money

  • They had to be church of England

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Frage 3 von 24

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How many people as a percentage could vote in the UK at that time

Wähle eine oder mehr der folgenden:

  • 40% of men

  • 11% of men ( 5% of the population)

  • 100%

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Frage 4 von 24

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What was this as a fraction?

Wähle eine oder mehr der folgenden:

  • 16 out of 3000

  • 20000/3400000

  • 400,000/14million

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Frage 5 von 24

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What type of seats were there?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • Rotten borough and town state

  • Borough and county

  • Country and city

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Frage 6 von 24

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How many MPs did each county return regardless of population?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • 5MPS

  • 2MPS

  • 1MP

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Frage 7 von 24

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How much land did a standard voter have to own?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • 40 shillings worth (£2) a year

  • 100 shillings worth a year

  • 71 shillings worth a year

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Frage 8 von 24

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What was a borough?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • A town where more than 1000 people lived

  • Where there was a town hall

  • Anywhere which had been a town (had a royal charter) in the 15th century

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Frage 9 von 24

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Why did the middle classes and the lower classes find the constituency voting system unfair?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • As the constituency stretched abroad

  • Because the constituency was only made up of 1 person in each town

  • Because there was a huge variation in size and voting practise

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Frage 10 von 24

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How many voters were there in Liverpool and Bristol ?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • 1 million

  • 5000

  • 10

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Frage 11 von 24

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How many voters were there in Old Sarum?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • 100,000

  • 15

  • 7

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Frage 12 von 24

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So which towns had no representation?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • The growing industrial towns

  • The small towns

  • The towns in the outskirts if Britain

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Frage 13 von 24

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How many people lived in Lancashire and how many MPS did they have ?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • 1800 and 24MPs

  • 1.3 million and 14MPs

  • 200 and 90MPs

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Frage 14 von 24

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How many people lived in Cornwall and how many MPS did they have?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • 300,000 and 42MPS

  • 60 and 100MPS

  • 900,000 and 13MPs

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Frage 15 von 24

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How many MPs did Manchester and Leeds have?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • 1MP

  • 10MPS

  • 0MPs

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Frage 16 von 24

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What did wealthy landowners do in the elections?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • They voted for who they wanted

  • They controlled voters by the voters fear of losing their jobs otherwise

  • They never voted

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Frage 17 von 24

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In 1800 why were half the MPs in parliament?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • Because of patronage

  • Because they won by popularity

  • They bribed

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Frage 18 von 24

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How many elections were contested ?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • All of them

  • Half of them

  • One third

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Frage 19 von 24

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Where was voting done?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • In 'Hustings'

  • At home

  • In the town hall

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Frage 20 von 24

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Voting was done in secret

Wähle eins der folgenden:

  • WAHR
  • FALSCH

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Frage 21 von 24

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This sort of voting allowed wide spread bribery and corruption

Wähle eins der folgenden:

  • WAHR
  • FALSCH

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Frage 22 von 24

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Who wanted parliamentary reform the most and why?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • The Upper class as they wanted even more power

  • The radicals as they wanted chaos

  • The middle classes as they had growing economic power but this was not matched by political power

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Frage 23 von 24

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Why was the system outdated?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • Women couldn't vote

  • It was made a long time ago

  • The system was not adapted to the immense economic and social changes brought with the industrial revolution

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Frage 24 von 24

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Why did the upper class believe they were best for voting?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • As they thought power should be held by the educated elite who would act in the best interests in the country as a whole

  • They could afford to look the best for the part

  • As poor people annoyed them

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