Question

Riots in this city led William Scholefield to create a permanent police force, replacing ad hoc groups appointed by improvement commissioners like Sampson Lloyd II. In this city, R. W. Dale opposed Forster’s Education Act to defend Nonconformists. Municipal activism in this city followed the Civic Gospel, whose originator George Dawson was a founder of the National Education League. The original “gas-and-water socialist” (-5[1])was a mayor (10[1])from this (-5[1])city, (-5[3])where Thomas Attwood (-5[1])led an underconsumptionist (10[1])school (10[1])of economics and founded its namesake “Political Union” to campaign for the Reform Act of 1832. The father of Austen and Neville Chamberlain was a mayor of this (10[1])city, whose Lunar Society led (10[1])the “Midlands Enlightenment.” (10[2])For 10 points, (10[1])the iron industry of what (10[1])second-largest (10[1])city in England (10[1])inspired (10[1])the name (10[1])of a city in Alabama? ■END■ (10[7])

ANSWER: Birmingham [accept Birmingham Enlightenment, Lunar Society of Birmingham, Birmingham Political Union, or Birmingham School] (Sampson Lloyd II was the founder of Lloyds Banking Group. The mayor was Joseph Chamberlain.)
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