Key dates: Modern Industrial Age (1730-1900) Flashcards
1
Q
Somerset Case
A
1772
2
Q
Act to abolish the slave trade passed
A
1807
3
Q
Merchant Shipping Act.
Made the EIC responsible for the seafarers’ upkeep
A
1823
4
Q
Jews allowed to trade freely
A
1830
5
Q
Emancipation from slavery in the empire
A
1833
6
Q
Highland clearances in Scotland and Irish Famine
A
1840s
7
Q
Naturalisation Act.
A
1870
8
Q
Beginning of arrival of Eastern European Jews
A
1880s
9
Q
Merchant Shipping Act. Revised
A
1894
10
Q
Ireland colonised England
A
1800s