Multiple choice

Which of the following was the cause for the mob rising during the Bloody Sunday of November 1887?

  1. Famine during a severe winter

  2. Terrible conditions of poverty

  3. Lack of medical insurance for the industrial workers

  4. Bad working conditions for the London dockworkers

  5. Damage caused to the tenements in the London Beer Flood
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B Correct answer
Explanation

This is the correct answer. The riot of the London poor on a Sunday in November 1887 was caused as the poor were demanding relief from the terrible conditions of poverty. The police brutally suppressed it and it came to be known as the Bloody Sunday of November 1887.

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