POST- INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

An association of workers formed to pursue collective rights and interests is ______________

What are workhouses?

• Institution built to provide work and accommodation for the working class.

• Institution built to provide work and accommodation for the poor and employed.

• Institution built to provide work and accommodation for the poor and unemployed.

• Institution built to provide work for the poor.

What did the government do to discourage the poor from claiming relief in workhouses?

• Poors paid rent to the government.

• Work was for 100 days only.

• Provided them work outside the workhouses.

• Conditions were deliberately made unpleasant.

An election in which votes are not cast in public is known as _________________

What did Robert Peel’s 1829 Metropolitan Police Act create?

Metropolitan Police Act established a force of 1000 full-time London policemen.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Rookery was city slum often inhabited by criminals and an center for criminal activity.

• TRUE

• FALSE

What was an average age of children sent to work in industrial areas during the early 19th century?

• 5

• 8.5

• 13

• 19

Name this weapon used by the policemen during 19th century.

Policemen were nicknamed as ____________