Laissez - faire(not included)

Question 1

What does laissez - faire mean?

Answer 1

To leave alone, an idea that the government shouldn’t interfere in the lives of the people and that they should make their own way in the world

Question 2

Examples of laissez - faire in the course

Answer 2

= Any free trade ideas - Pitt and Eden Treaty, Liverpool/Peel and decrease in duties

• Modifying Corn Laws
• Trade Unions - the ban on being able to influence others meant that people themselves chose whether they wanted to be a part of a Union or not
• Poor relief
• Lowering taxes

Question 3

How did the ideas of laissez - faire affect the government?

Answer 3

Kept taxes low
Minimised interference
Didn’t help the poor much, left them alone
Didn’t look at a persons circumstance
Didn’t look at improvements in standard of living
Thought that people who depend on the government will be lazy and reliant
The government can’t affect anything in a person, only themselves

Question 4

How far do you think that laissez - faire dominated government thinking from 1822 - 65?

Answer 4

Economic (yes)- Free trade, decrease duties, lower tax
Economic (no) - More dominant under Peel, Corn Laws only repealed in the latter half of the era, may not be so important, Peel brought back income tax
Social(no) - Did interfere with the Factory Act, Money to schools, slavery,
Social(yes) - minimal interference, Public Health Act is permissive, not much in education