Pearson Edexcel A Level · History (9HI0)

Poverty, public health and the state in Britain, c1780–1939: Practice Questions

5 multiple-choice questions marked as you go, and 5 written questions with worked solutions. All on Poverty, public health and the state in Britain, c1780–1939.

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Question 1

1 mark

Which Victorian individual was most famous for publishing Self-Help in \(1859\), promoting the ideology of individual responsibility as the primary solution to poverty?

Question 2

1 mark

What was a significant outcome of the Parliamentary Reform Act of 1867 regarding the administration of the Poor Law?

Question 3

1 mark

How did the Andover Workhouse scandal of 1845 directly influence the central administration of the Poor Law in Britain?

Question 4

1 mark

Which individual is most associated with the engineering of London's main drainage system in the mid-nineteenth century, following the 'Great Stink' of 1858?

Question 5

1 mark

In the inter-war period, why did the Special Areas Act 1934 prove largely ineffective at revitalizing regions like South Wales and the North East?

Question 6

2 marks

Identify the individual who authored the influential 1842 Report on the Sanitary Condition of the Labouring Population.

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Question 7

4 marks

Outline the importance of the poverty studies conducted by Charles Booth and Seebohm Rowntree in challenging the Victorian idea that poverty was always the fault of the individual.

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Question 8

5 marks

Explain how the Unemployment Act 1934 fundamentally altered the administration of relief for the long-term unemployed compared to the system it replaced.

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Question 9

2 marks

Describe the significance of the 1832 cholera epidemic in Britain. How did this event lead to a change in public perception regarding the causes of disease and the necessity of state-funded drainage systems?

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Question 10

5 marks

Discuss the impact of the Liberal Government reforms (1906–08) on public health and poverty.
a) How did the provision of school meals and medical inspections mark a shift in the state's role?
b) Why was the 1908 Old Age Pensions Act considered a landmark in welfare reform?

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