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Luddites Flashcards

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When

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1812-1813

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Who

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‘Croppers’, highly skilled male weavers/textile workers who were replaced by ‘Stocking Frames’

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Context

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  • French Revolution 1789
  • Industrialisation
  • Urbanisation
  • 1812 assassination of PM Spencer Percival
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Where

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Nottingham Yorkshire Lancashire Leeds Bradford

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Why

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Low demand for cloth due to Napoleonic Wars
Poor Harvest raised food prices
New Machines

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What did they do

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Formed gangs, wrote threatening letters signed General Ludd and broke into factories to destroy frames:
•1812 attack in Nottingham
•EDMUND CARTWRIGHT owner of the mill is murdered in 1812
•Luddites celebrate the murder of the PM

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Reaction

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Cartwright had own security forces open fire on protesters (before his assassination)

10,000 soldiers sent to stop Luddites

Spencer Perceval enforced the 1812 FRAME BREAKING ACT, which was punishable by death yet not effective

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Punishments

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17 executed so became MARTYRS

Luddism faded as food prices fell and trade improved

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