3 - Tory Government 1815-20 Flashcards
What was the rate of income tax before it’s repeal?
10%
When and why were the East Anglia riots?
1816 - largely due to poor economy
What did the Factory Act of 1816 do?
Outlawed children under 9 working in cotton factories, offered insurance to workers in mines and iron works
What did the Romily Committee (1819) investigate?
Reform of the legal system
What did the Wallace Committe (1820) investigate?
Trade reform
When did the Currency Commission decide to return to the gold standard and when was it achieved?
Decided 1819, achieved 1821
When were the Corn Laws introduced?
1815
What did the corn laws do?
Outlawed imports of wheat unless the price rose above 80 shillings per quarter
When was income tax introduced and repealed?
Introduced 1797, repealed 1816
When were the game laws introduced and what did they mean?
1816, made poaching against a landowner illegal
When was Habeas Corpus suspended?
1817, repealed the law in 1818
When was the seditious meetings act and what did it mean?
1817, outlawed meetings of over 50 people, also made mutiny in the army punishable by death
What were the six acts?
Ban on military training, magistrates had increased power to search for arms, banned meetings of over 50 people, sped up trials, restricted the press, increased stamp duty (so it was too expensive to publish radical newspapers)
Who were spies that Liverpool used as informers?
WJ Richards, Oliver, George Edwards, John Castle
