Industrial 1700-1900

Created by

Mollie Fitzgerald

Cards (22)

How many crimes did the Bloody Code see punishable by death?
225 from approximately 1680-1820
How many people were sentenced to transportation? To where?
165,000 people to Australia between 1787 to 1868
What did JP’s refuse to do? (associating with Highway men)
Licence taverns to Highwaymen.
What happened to witchcraft laws in 1736?
Witchcraft laws were repealed
What act made poaching punishable by death?
the black act
Who were the only people who could hunt?
Landowners with land worth £100 a year
How many smugglers were there in the 18th century?
20,000
What percentage of smugglers were labourers?
70%
What was an example of an organised gang involved in smuggling?
The Hawkhurst Gang
What did Dick Turpin start as? And then what did he turn to?
He was a poacher with the Gregory Gang before he turned to Highway robbery
What happened to George Loveless and the Tolpuddle Martyrs?
Their wages were cut from 9s to 7s in 1833
How many people demanded the pardoning of the Tolpuddle Martyrs?
250,000
What did the Fielding Brothers set up?
The Bow St Runners to introduce horse patrols to tackle Highwaymen
What was introduced by the Fielding brothers in 1748?
The Bow St Runners
Who became Home Secretary in 1822?
Sir Robert Peel
What did Sir Robert Peel do in 1823? and in 1829?
He passed the Gaols act and in 1829 established the Metropolitan Police.
What did Elizabeth Fry do at Newgate Prison?
Set up a school for children
What had the conviction rates of the Bloody Code fallen to by 1815?
10%
What did John Howard publish? In what year?
‘The State of Prisons’ in 1777
When was Pentonville prison built? What did it set up?
It was built in 1842 and set up a ‘separate system’
Why did prison regimes briefly get harsher in the 1860s?
With the ‘Silence System’ and partly in response to fear spread through ‘Penny Dreadfuls’.
What did government inspectors start to do for prisoners in the 1870s?
Check on their work and health