Rural riots Flashcards
What is a live in?
When labourers lived in farms all year with food and places to sleep
What happened to live ins?
It changed to causal services so people went to the work then back, so less people lived on the farms
What was the issue with the causal services?
It meant that people had less stable jobs because many were sacked in the winter months
What happened to wages?
Wages went down because of the raise in prices, especially in the Napoleonic war
What was the affect of closures?
They meant that there was less space for their animals or get woods and acorns
The very poor had no land
What laws affected the rural population?
Game law - so they couldn’t shoot their landlords game for meat
Corn law - the prices of corn increased
Income tax abolishment - it meant that they had more taxes
What happened to help for the poor?
Parishes were the ones who would help the poor but was very inconsistent
What types of riots occurred?
Threshing machines
“Bread or blood”
What is the threshing machine riots?
Between 1829 - 1830 threshing machines were destroyed and attacked in East Anglia, Surrey and Hampshire
What is the “blood and bread” riots?
Collective display of protests in 1816, rural workers wanted bread or would hurt someone. They would ask merchants for fairer grain prices
What was the Elizabeth’s poor law in 1598 and - 1601?
Parishes had to help the poor. Any middle class had to pay an additional tax to help the poor. It was very inconsistent in the number of rich people the places had
What was the 1662 Settlement Act?
Poor people could leave their parishes with the parishes consent
What was the 1782 Gilberts Act?
Workhouses poor person can get free food and lodging and support in exchange for work.
Parishes can build a workhouse together and put their poor
What happened in 1795 in the Speenhamland system?
Wages depended on the price of broad and and the family sizes so they would be helped by the parish. It was inconsistent and
