3.2 The Problem With The Poor Flashcards
What were the dates and names of the three policies towards the poor?
1563: Statute of Artificiers
1572 Vagabonds act
1576: poor relief act
What was the aim and features of the statute of Artificiers in 1563?
Aimed to make sure poor relief was collected
Features: -people who refused to provide poor relief were imprisoned and officials failing to organise poor relief were fined £20
What was the aim and features of the Vagabonds act in 1572?
Its aim was to deter Vagrancy
Its fratures were that:
-first offence: whipped and hole drilled through esr
Second offence: imprisoned
Third offence: executed
What was the aim and features of the poor relief Act in 1576?
-it aimed to distinguish the able poor and help them find work
- JPs provided them with raw materials to sell
- those who still refused to work were sent to a prison called the house of correction
What was the impact pfnthe three polices towards the poor
- some success but poverty still remained a problem
- the laws reconsised that unemployment was a problem and not every one who was unemployed was outnof laziness
Who where hte impotent poor(deserving poor)
Unable to work out of no fault of their own
Received more sympathy
Who were the able poor?
People able to work but refused to do so, treated more harshly.
What five reasons caused an increase of poverty and vagabondage?
- increased population
- rising food prices
- sheep farming and enclosure of fields meant less people were employed in farms
- more people moved to cities to look for work
- international problems(Dutch revolt) affected trade
Why did population increase lead to poverty?
- price of food increased
- more people to work-wages cheaper
- demand for farmland increased, increased rent on tenant farmers
All these reasons resulted in increased poverty
Why did rising food prices lead to poverty
-some people can’t afford food as wages don’t increase. This leads to poverty and vagabondage
Why did sheep farming and enclosure of fields lead to poverty?
- less land used for crops+ crops used to feed animals (food more expensive)
- rural depopulation(less work needed for sheep farming)
- enclosure of fields leads to rural depopulation+increased number of vagabonds
How did rural people moving to the city cause poverty?
Not enough jobs,caused poverty for able poor(vagabonds)
How did the Dutch revolt cause poverty
Wool accounted for 81.6% of exports especially to areas such as the Netherlands
-Dutch revolt stopped the trade and put people out of buisness-causing poverty
