Poverty Flashcards
plague outbreak (date)
1556
Population growth (between Henry and Elizabeth’s reign)
2.8 million to 4.8 million (43%)
Inflation- Secondary causes
- Banned trading
- pressure on resources
Inflation- primary causes
- Failed crop grown- less food, increased prices (higher demand)
- jobs lost
- poor suffer
Wars
- France and Scotland wars Scotland (Henry VIII)
- taxes increased (poor hit worst)
- trade impacts
Bad harvest- famine dates
1594- 1598
Changes in farming example (R…) + definition
Rack renting
- tenants becoming victims of greedy landlords- rent and evictions unfair
Changes in farming- example 2 (E….) + definition
Enclosures
-open fields combined- less call for workers but more efficient farming (sheep)
Dissolution of monasteries
Henry VIII dissolved them- frustration amongst poor
Act for setting the able bodied poor on work (date)
1576
Parish appoint oversees of the poor (date)
1598
Poor law (date)
1601
Poor law (facts)
- Government took responsibility
- compulsory tax
- 2-4 overseers of the poor (elected with church wardens)
Names for the ‘undeserving’ poor
Idle poor Vagabonds Vagrants Beggars Rufflers
How were the deserving poor helped
Locally:
Almshouses
Hospitals
Which areas supplied for the poor
York
Norwich
Ipswich
What did York do to help poverty
House of correction
What did Norwich do to help the poor
Taxed rich citizens
Gave food
Gave care and support
Names for the ‘undeserving’ poor
Idle poor Vagabonds Vagrants Beggars Rufflers
What did Ipswich do to help the poor
Youth training scheme
How were the poor treated during Tudor times (law)
Beggars got publicly whipped (1531)
What were the reasons to help the poor (x3)
Great chain of being
Great numbers of deserving poor
Social unrest
How were the deserving poor helped
Locally:
Almshouses
Hospitals
Which areas supplied for the poor
York
Norwich
Ipswich
