Unit 18: Paper 3 (HL) — History of Europe
Topic 18.10: Society, politics and economy in Britain and Ireland (1815–1914) Questions
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Choose the correct year of the Peterloo Massacre.
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Choose the leader of the Anti-Corn Law League who campaigned alongside John Bright for free trade.
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Choose the approximate number of people who died during the Irish Famine of 1845 to 1852.
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Choose the correct term for the 1881 Land Act's provisions of fair rent, fixity of tenure and free sale, won after Land League agitation.
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Choose the event of 1913-1914 in which British army officers threatened to resign rather than enforce Home Rule on Ulster.
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Choose the Act that created elected school boards to build elementary schools in Britain.
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Choose the year in which Lloyd George introduced the 'People's Budget'.
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Choose which Reform Act first gave the vote to urban working-class householders.
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Choose the Act that removed the House of Lords' power to block money bills and reduced its veto on other legislation to a two-year delay.
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Choose the organisation founded by Emmeline Pankhurst in 1903 that adopted the slogan 'Deeds not Words'.
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Examine the reasons why Ireland remained an unresolved political problem for Britain in the period 1868 to 1914.
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Examine the causes of social protest in Britain between 1815 and 1848.
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Evaluate the reasons for the failure of Chartism to achieve its aims by 1848.
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Discuss the reasons for, and consequences of, the repeal of the Corn Laws in 1846.
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To what extent was the British government responsible for the scale of suffering caused by the Irish Famine of 1845 to 1852?
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Compare and contrast the causes of the Reform Act of 1832 in Britain with the causes of the 1848 Revolution in France.
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Examine the reasons why Britain avoided revolution in the nineteenth century despite significant social and political unrest.
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Evaluate the view that the Reform Acts of 1832, 1867 and 1884-1885 were primarily the result of elite political calculation rather than popular pressure.
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Discuss the reasons for, and the effects of, social reform legislation in Britain between 1833 and 1880.
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To what extent did the extension of the franchise between 1832 and 1885 transform British political parties?
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