Edexcel A-Level History - Paupers and
Pauperism June 2024 Exam Questions
and Answers 100% Pass
When was the Elizabethan Poor Law implemented? -
Answer>>1601
Explain the reliance on the parish. - Answer>>Each parish was
to administer relief to its own poor and collect taxes to provide
appropriate relief. The setting to the work of the poor was in the
hands of churchwardens and overseers of the poor.
What were the advantages of the parish providing relief? -
Answer>>Defined who was supposed to be helping who.
Distinguished who needed relief and who didn't.
What were the disadvantages of the parish providing relief? -
Answer>>Overseers of the poor manipulated the system as
they used it to settle old scores. Also, the attempts to categorise
the poor weren't always fair.
What is the difference between the deserving poor and the
undeserving poor? - Answer>>Deserving poor - People who
were poor through no fault of their own, e.g. the old and children.
Undeserving poor - People who were poor due to their perceived
moral failure, e.g. drunk people.
What did the Elizabethan Poor Law say about settlement? -
Answer>>A person claiming relief had to be returned to the
place of their birth in order to receive it, or where they have lived
for more than a year, or the last parish they passed through
without getting into trouble with the law.
When was the Settlement Act? - Answer>>1662
, What did the Settlement Act say? - Answer>>Legal settlement
was by birth, marriage, apprenticeship or inheritance. Strangers
could be removed if they weren't working within 40 days.
What was added to the settlement act in 1697? -
Answer>>Strangers could be removed from parishes if they
didn't present a certificate from their home parish.
When was the removal act? - Answer>>1795
What did the removal act add to the 1662 settlement act? -
Answer>>Strangers could only be removed if they applied for
relief.
What were the problems with the settlement acts? -
Answer>>They were designed to control a migrant population.
They weren't applied consistently over time or from place to
place. Overseers argued. The laws were hated by the poor.
Magistrates couldn't keep up with issuing and carrying out
settlement orders.
What was outdoor relief? - Answer>>Providing relief to the poor
in their own homes.
What was cyclical unemployment? - Answer>>
What were the problems after 1750? -
Answer>>Industrialisation and a mobile population tested the
limits of the Poor Law. Lagging wages and increasing food prices
meant that families struggled.
When was the Speenhamland system introduced? -
Answer>>1795
Pauperism June 2024 Exam Questions
and Answers 100% Pass
When was the Elizabethan Poor Law implemented? -
Answer>>1601
Explain the reliance on the parish. - Answer>>Each parish was
to administer relief to its own poor and collect taxes to provide
appropriate relief. The setting to the work of the poor was in the
hands of churchwardens and overseers of the poor.
What were the advantages of the parish providing relief? -
Answer>>Defined who was supposed to be helping who.
Distinguished who needed relief and who didn't.
What were the disadvantages of the parish providing relief? -
Answer>>Overseers of the poor manipulated the system as
they used it to settle old scores. Also, the attempts to categorise
the poor weren't always fair.
What is the difference between the deserving poor and the
undeserving poor? - Answer>>Deserving poor - People who
were poor through no fault of their own, e.g. the old and children.
Undeserving poor - People who were poor due to their perceived
moral failure, e.g. drunk people.
What did the Elizabethan Poor Law say about settlement? -
Answer>>A person claiming relief had to be returned to the
place of their birth in order to receive it, or where they have lived
for more than a year, or the last parish they passed through
without getting into trouble with the law.
When was the Settlement Act? - Answer>>1662
, What did the Settlement Act say? - Answer>>Legal settlement
was by birth, marriage, apprenticeship or inheritance. Strangers
could be removed if they weren't working within 40 days.
What was added to the settlement act in 1697? -
Answer>>Strangers could be removed from parishes if they
didn't present a certificate from their home parish.
When was the removal act? - Answer>>1795
What did the removal act add to the 1662 settlement act? -
Answer>>Strangers could only be removed if they applied for
relief.
What were the problems with the settlement acts? -
Answer>>They were designed to control a migrant population.
They weren't applied consistently over time or from place to
place. Overseers argued. The laws were hated by the poor.
Magistrates couldn't keep up with issuing and carrying out
settlement orders.
What was outdoor relief? - Answer>>Providing relief to the poor
in their own homes.
What was cyclical unemployment? - Answer>>
What were the problems after 1750? -
Answer>>Industrialisation and a mobile population tested the
limits of the Poor Law. Lagging wages and increasing food prices
meant that families struggled.
When was the Speenhamland system introduced? -
Answer>>1795
