What was the name of the geographical area that administered the Old Poor Law?
Parishes
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What was the name of the person responsible for administering it?
The Overseer of the Poor
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What did the Settlement Act 1662 say?
A person who was born, married, inheritance or have an apprenticeship could seek relief
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How was settlement legislation tied up in 1697?
A person, when moving to a new parish, had to bring a Settlement Certificate from their former, stating that they would take them back if they needed relief
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What could be applied under Knatchbull's Act of 1722?
Workhouse tests
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What was a pauper?
Poor person in receipt of relief
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What does indigence mean?
Someone who can't support themselves
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What was the Gilert's Act 1782?
An act allowing parishes to join together to build workhouses, poorhouses and Houses of Correcton
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What were the two variables the Speenhamland system operated on?
Price of bread and size of family
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What was the Labour Rate?
Rate payers didn't have to pay the poor rate if they employed able bodied poor
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What was the Roundsman system?
Ratepayers paid able bodied poor at any rate,then the parish would supplement it
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What were Thomas Malthus' main theories in regards to the Poor Law?
Abolish it, as it encouraged large families which kept wages low
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What suggestion did Robert Owen make for the provision of Poor Relief?
Factory communities (with sick pay, 10 hours working, children in school until age of 10)
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What did David Ricardo believe the problem was with the Poor Law?
Shared Malthus' beliefs on population and low wages
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He believed there was a big pot of money from which poor relief and wages came from- what was this theory known as?
The Iron Law of Wages
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Who developed the theory of utilitarianism?
Jeremy Bentham
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Why did the Corn Laws provoke riots up and down the country?
Rose the cost of corn
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What were the Swing Riots?
Agricultural riots caused by the new machinery being introduced?
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Why did the Swing riots add to calls to amend the Poor Law?
So that there would be a revolution among the poor, like in France (across the Channel)
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The Whigs had what in the House of Commons following the 1831 general election?
A strong majority
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When did parliament order the Commission of Enquiry into the workings of the Poor Law?
1832
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Who were the two main commissioners on the Commission of Enquiry?
Nassau Senior and Edwin Chadwick
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The three criticisms of the report that the Commission produced?
10% of parishes replied,mostly from the South and Chadwick/Senior wrote the report before all replies were received
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Main recommendations of the report?
A central authority to administer the law, segragated workhouses, Abolish outdoor relief and workhouse unions of about 30
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Two differences between the Act and the Report?
Outdoor relief not abolished (discouraged) and a different model of workhouses
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Who was the radical MP who opposed the MP?
William Cobbett
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How many votes were there against the PLAA in its passage through Parliament?
30
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Why did some Tories oppose the Law?
The centralisation element of the law
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Who owned the Times newspaper and what idea did he champion?
John Walter II and laissez faire
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What is the term for conditions in the workhouse being worse than those of the meanest labourer outside of the workhouse?
Less eligibility
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What position did Chadwick hold in the new Poor Law Commissioner and why did this make him grumpy?
Secretary and he wanted to be a Commissioner
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What was the nickname given to the three commissioners?
The Three Bashaws of Somerset House
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Roughly how many parishes was a union meant to comprise of?
30
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Which area refused to build a workhouse until 1877?
Todmorden
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In what year did the PLC issue the General Outdoor Relief Prohibitory order?
1844
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Other cards in this set
Card 2
Front
What was the name of the person responsible for administering it?
Back
The Overseer of the Poor
Card 3
Front
What did the Settlement Act 1662 say?
Back
Card 4
Front
How was settlement legislation tied up in 1697?
Back
Card 5
Front
What could be applied under Knatchbull's Act of 1722?
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