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History of London
History of London
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History
Undergraduate 3
04/20/2008

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Term

WSPU -

What does it stand for?

Who was the founder of it?

What is their slogan? 

Definition

Women's Social and Political Union

Emmeline Pankhurst

"Deeds not Words" 

Term
What country was the first to grant women the right to vote? 
Definition
New Zealand
Term
What woman is associated with hunger strikes?
Definition
Marion Dunlap
Term
What suffragette is associated with an arsen campaign?
Definition
Kitty Marion
Term
Who threw herself under a horse?
Definition
Emily Davidson
Term
What is the name of the act that allowed anyone over 30 who were also property owners, and the wives of property owners, to vote? 
Definition
Government Representation of the People Act
Term
What happened on July 2, 1928?
Definition
All women over 21 were allowed to vote
Term
What did Mary Richardson do?
Definition
Slashed a painting in the national gallery that was of a Spanish nude
Term
What, in a sense, saved the suffragette movement?
Definition
They stopped their radical actions which distanced them from people because of WWI
Term
What caused the gin riots?
Definition

Gov't allowe unlicensed production of gin in England, and at the same time taxed imported spirits

 

Riots began when government imposed a tax on gin in 1736 

Term

1718 Transportation Act

 

Definition
transportation to America (georgia) or the West Indies became a common punishment for serious crime
Term
1752 Disorderly Houses Act
Definition
Increased controls on places of entertainment
Term
1752 Murder Act
Definition
Bodies of those hung would be dissected by scientists or hung in a public area
Term
Who founded the Bow Street Magistrates Court?
Definition
Henry and Sir John Fielding
Term
Who was Jonathan Wild?
Definition
Famous london criminal, had a gang of thieves, eventually caught and hung
Term
What type of rat spread the plague?
Definition
Black rats
Term
What were the purple blotches people got called?
Definition
Bubers
Term
How much of London's population died in 1665?
Definition
1/5 of population
Term
The first person to die from the plague was...
Definition
Margaret
Term
What is cholera?
Definition
A bacterial infection of the gut... causes painful and rapid dehydration
Term
Who initiated investigation into London's sanitation and sewers, especially among the working classes?
Definition
Edwin Chadwick
Term
Chadwick's Mistake?
Definition

In 1848 he flushed the sewers into the Thames again

Another Cholera outbreak - 1848

1849 - lost his place on Metropolitan Commission

Was still well-known and became knighted 

Term
Metropolitan Water Act 1852?
Definition
Allowed companies to continue taking water from the Thames as long as they didn't take it from downstream at Teddington Lock
Term
Who traced the source of the Cholera outbreak to a well on broad street in soho and is known as the father of epidemiology?
Definition
John Snow
Term
Who issued reports that led to the Sanitary Act of 1866?
Definition
Dr. John Simon
Term
What English philosopher was a major shareholder in the Royal Africa Company?
Definition
John Locke
Term
Two individuals who headed the abolitionists?
Definition
William Wilberforce and Thomas Clarkson
Term
Who was James Somerset?
Definition
A slave who ran away when his owner brought him to London. On another trip, his owner recognized him. Tried to take him back but it did not work bc slavery was ultimately outlawed by the Magna Carta
Term
Who was the largest landowner North of Piccadilly?
Definition
Sir Richard Grosvenor
Term
Grosvenor estate has properties in 2 major areas. What are they?
Definition
Mayfair and Belgravia
Term
Who was Mary Davis?
Definition
12 year old who was heir to the Grosvenor Estate
Term
What are some places Christopher Wren designed?
Definition
St. Paul's Cathedral, as well as over 52 other important buildings after the great fire
Term
What was Wren's style?
Definition
Baroque
Term
What is Jeremy Bentham famous for?
Definition

Was a child prodigy, graduating from Oxford @ 12

Philosopher, utilitarianism

Created secular alternative to Oxford/Cambridge - University College of London (anyone could attend) 

Term
Why was there a grave with 26 bishops in?
Definition
26/40 bishops who died during the plague
Term
Who founded Westminster?
Definition
Edward the Confessor (last king to be made a saint by Rome)
Term
Where did the Lords and Commons meet?
Definition
Lords - White Chamber
Commons - Chapter House
Term
Name 2 churches that survived the fire of London.
Definition
St. Bartholomew and Temple
Term
In Westminster, where did the Lords and Commons meet?
Definition

Lords met in white chamber

Commons in chapter house 

Term
Westminster bodies - one of Shakespeare's contemporaries, wrote The Alchemist, 1st Poet Laureate, Buried upright
Definition
Ben Johnson
Term
Who were some of the scientists buried in scientist's aisle?
Definition
Darwin, Howard Walter
Term
Poets who were buried in Westminster
Definition
Chaucer, Henry James, TS Eliot, Dylan Thomas, Oscar Wilde
Term
Samuel Bradford (buried in Westminster)
Definition
Lord Chief Justice who let slaves go by the Magna Carta
Term
Who did Puritans scatter the bones of?
Definition
Edward the Confessor
Term
Charles Yerkes
Definition
American financer, played large role in expansion of tube in late 1800's
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