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

Question 1 of 24

1

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

Select one of the following:

  • Adult males over 21

  • Females and males 18 over

  • Adult males 40 over

Explanation

Question 2 of 24

1

What qualities did these voters have to have ?

Select one or more of the following:

  • 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

Explanation

Question 3 of 24

1

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

Select one or more of the following:

  • 40% of men

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

  • 100%

Explanation

Question 4 of 24

1

What was this as a fraction?

Select one or more of the following:

  • 16 out of 3000

  • 20000/3400000

  • 400,000/14million

Explanation

Question 5 of 24

1

What type of seats were there?

Select one of the following:

  • Rotten borough and town state

  • Borough and county

  • Country and city

Explanation

Question 6 of 24

1

How many MPs did each county return regardless of population?

Select one of the following:

  • 5MPS

  • 2MPS

  • 1MP

Explanation

Question 7 of 24

1

How much land did a standard voter have to own?

Select one of the following:

  • 40 shillings worth (£2) a year

  • 100 shillings worth a year

  • 71 shillings worth a year

Explanation

Question 8 of 24

1

What was a borough?

Select one of the following:

  • 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

Explanation

Question 9 of 24

1

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

Select one of the following:

  • 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

Explanation

Question 10 of 24

1

How many voters were there in Liverpool and Bristol ?

Select one of the following:

  • 1 million

  • 5000

  • 10

Explanation

Question 11 of 24

1

How many voters were there in Old Sarum?

Select one of the following:

  • 100,000

  • 15

  • 7

Explanation

Question 12 of 24

1

So which towns had no representation?

Select one of the following:

  • The growing industrial towns

  • The small towns

  • The towns in the outskirts if Britain

Explanation

Question 13 of 24

1

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

Select one of the following:

  • 1800 and 24MPs

  • 1.3 million and 14MPs

  • 200 and 90MPs

Explanation

Question 14 of 24

1

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

Select one of the following:

  • 300,000 and 42MPS

  • 60 and 100MPS

  • 900,000 and 13MPs

Explanation

Question 15 of 24

1

How many MPs did Manchester and Leeds have?

Select one of the following:

  • 1MP

  • 10MPS

  • 0MPs

Explanation

Question 16 of 24

1

What did wealthy landowners do in the elections?

Select one of the following:

  • They voted for who they wanted

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

  • They never voted

Explanation

Question 17 of 24

1

In 1800 why were half the MPs in parliament?

Select one of the following:

  • Because of patronage

  • Because they won by popularity

  • They bribed

Explanation

Question 18 of 24

1

How many elections were contested ?

Select one of the following:

  • All of them

  • Half of them

  • One third

Explanation

Question 19 of 24

1

Where was voting done?

Select one of the following:

  • In 'Hustings'

  • At home

  • In the town hall

Explanation

Question 20 of 24

1

Voting was done in secret

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 21 of 24

1

This sort of voting allowed wide spread bribery and corruption

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 22 of 24

1

Who wanted parliamentary reform the most and why?

Select one of the following:

  • 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

Explanation

Question 23 of 24

1

Why was the system outdated?

Select one of the following:

  • 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

Explanation

Question 24 of 24

1

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

Select one of the following:

  • 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

Explanation

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