Social Flashcards
1
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1824
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Repeal of the Combination Acts
allowed men to combine and bargain with their employers. Act was put in place 1799
2
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1825
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Amending Act
prohibited strike action
3
Q
1830
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- Liverpool-Manchester Railway
beginning of the Railway Age. Railways buillt across Britain mainly in 1840s, creating railway towns such as Crewe
4
Q
1832
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- Great Reform Act
extended the franchise from 435,000 to 217,000
5
Q
1833
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- Education grant of £20,000 to the National Society and British & Foreign Society
- Abolition of Slavery
- Factory Act (no children under 9, 2hrs schooling, factory inspectors 4, restricted 9-18 working hours)
6
Q
1834
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- Poor Law Amendment Act (replaced out Speedhamland System of outdoor poor relief with indoor relief)
7
Q
1835
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- Municipal Corporations Act
(reformed the system of local government. Produced a wider franchise. 200+ old corporations dissolved and 179 new boroughs) - Robert Owen’s GCNTU failed
8
Q
1836
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- London Working Mans Association Founded (led by Francis Place and William Lovett)
- Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages Act (made Factory Act easier to implement)
9
Q
1838
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- Peaceful protests brought the abolition of slavery to 1838 (after they had been reclassified as apprentices. Form of indentured labour was introduced by bringing workers from India)
- Peoples Charter announced
- Anti-Corn Law League founded
10
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1839
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- Education grant increased to £30,000
- Chartists’ First petition 1,280,000 signatures. Overwhelming rejection from Whigs and Tories
- Newport Rising (from working conditions in iron foundries and coa mines in South Wales, Newport. Confirmed mc fears about movement. Lovett was imprisoned)
11
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1841
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- Chartist movement revitalised after economic slump
12
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1842
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- Financial Budget 1 (introduced income tax in the peacetime for the first time)
- Feargus O’Connor established himself as leader of the Chartist movment
- Peel extended Poor Law Amendment Act
- Royal Agricultural Society formed
- Chadwick’s ‘Report on the Sanitary Conditions of the Labouring Population’
- Mines Act (no female employed, no boys under 10)
13
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1843
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James Graham attempts to introduce factory education
14
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1844
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- Bank Charter Act (to restore confidence in British currency, ensure bank note issuing related to the volume of gold reserves in bank. To meet requirements of expanding industry)
- Joint Stock Companies Act (to regulate company finance)
- Railway Act (introduced Gladstone’s Parliamentary Train)
- Rochdale Pioneers set up the Cooperative Movement (principle of self-help)
15
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1845
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Financial Budget 2 (abolished most duties)