Breadth - Changing influences in parliament

Which royal household was George III a member of?

• Hanover

• Stuart

• Tudor

• Windsor

Which movement, founded by Rev Christopher Wyvil, sought to lower taxes and reduce government spending on patronage?

Who was the prime minister at the time of Victoria’s accession to the throne?

• Benjamin Disraeli

• Lord John Russell

• Viscount Melbourne

• Sir Robert Peel

In what year did the Bedchamber Crisis occur?

• 1836

• 1837

• 1838

• 1839

According to Walter Bagehot, what three rights does the sovereign have under a constitutional monarchy?

• The right to choose who they want to be prime minister

• The right to be consulted

• The right to encourage

• The right to warn

Who led the Liberals to to a landslide victory in the 1906 general election?

• H.H. Asquith

• Henry Campbell-Bannerman

• David Lloyd George

• Arthur Balfour

Who was the leader of the Conservative and Unionist Party who lost the 1906 general election (and his own seat), but still believed that it was the duty of his party to ‘still control, whether in power or whether in opposition, the destinies of this great Empire’?

• Arthur Balfour

• Marquess of Salisbury

• Earl of Rosebery

• Joseph Chamberlain

The monarch from 1760 was ​ (a)   . He ruled at a time when the monarchy were far more prepared to interfere in politics than they are today. For example, they could persuade MPs to support them by offering ​ (b)   , which were jobs that required little or no actual work. The influence of the monarchy was severely affected by the actions of ​ (c)   , who dismissed his prime minister, Lord Melbourne, and replaced him with ​ (d)   . However, without a ​ (e)   in the House of Commons, a general election was called leading to the Whigs returning to power.

• George III
• sinecures
• William IV
• Robert Peel
• majority
• patronage
• Victoria
• Edward VII
• George V
• Gladstone

After the 1911 Parliament Act, how many years could a parliament last without an election?

(Write a number)

To which party do the following descriptions apply?

Groups:

(a) Tories

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(b) Whigs

• Defended the power of the monarch

• Increasing number of MPs came from industrial or commercial backgrounds

• Usually from landowning backgrounds

• More sympathetic to, and had more support from, Nonconformists

• Protective of the privileges of the Church of England

• More likely to question the power of the monarch and to defend the power of Parliament

• Began to demand reform of Parliament in the late 1820s

• More fearful of the ideas of the French Revolution