L8 - Upper class

Question 1

What is the london season

Answer 1

hosted parties and events for rich people

Question 2

What happened in Queen Charlottes ball

Who hosted it

Answer 2

raise money for a new maternity hospital - for fee payers

King George 3rd

Question 3

Who invited girls through there family to be escortes

what book did he write

what did they raise money for

Answer 3

Peter townend

little black book

charity such as NAACP

Question 4

How much land did the top 0.6% own

Answer 4

98.5%

Question 5

What type of wealth was still important

Answer 5

inherrited

Question 6

Whats a Debutante ball

What did it encourage

Answer 6

Aristocrats daughter shown off at the start of the season

rich family marriage

Question 7

What 3 events may be seen at the London season

Answer 7

Royal Ascot
The Chelsea Flower Show
Wimbledon

Question 8

How much land was sold off by the rich between 1918 and 1920

Answer 8

1/4

Question 9

Did rich people fight in war

what % of eatons died in war

what % of peers died in war (lords)

Answer 9

Yes

20.7%

19%

Question 10

What were tax rises in 1914 - 1925 for over £2500 made a year

Answer 10

2% to 57%

Question 11

When were death duties ( inheritance tax) raised (3)

Answer 11

1929
1946
1949

Question 12

When were death duties (inheritance tax) lowered

Answer 12

1979

Question 13

How much did money over 2 million get taxed through death duties

Answer 13

over 40%

Question 14

What was Burke’s landed Gentry

Answer 14

book published every year with the owners of most land

Question 15

How much of the gentry lost all there land by 1937

by 1951

Answer 15

1/3

1/2

Question 16

How did gentry save land

Answer 16

stock market

Question 17

What was MP amount in the gentry in 1910 and 1945

Answer 17

40%

5%

Question 18

When was the parliament act

what did it do

Answer 18

1911

house of lords can only block a law 3 times

Question 19

When was hereditary peers replaced

Answer 19

1958

Question 20

What happened in 1958

Answer 20

hereditary peers replaced

Question 21

Who did rich start giving there land to

Answer 21

National trust

Question 22

What was The National Trust deal

Answer 22

open house for 60 days a year - you could live for 2 generations rent free

Question 23

Whats a hereditory peer

Answer 23

fathers position going to sons