extra info (not from textbook) Flashcards

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What did the Indian Act of 1784 do?

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Removed the exclusive rights given to the East India Trading Company. Removed some (but not all) of the corruption, the EIC still retained much of its financial influence in India

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Who proposed a minimum wage for the poor and what was Pitt’s reaction?

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Whitbread, dismissed him

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Why was smuggling bad for the government?

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More smuggling = less tax paid = less money

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When did the London Corresponding Society hold a demonstration and how many people attended?

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October 1795, 10,000

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What were the London Corresponding Society demonstrating about?

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Addressed the king, blamed parliamentary corruption for hunger and distress

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Example of the middle class having more money to invest in things

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200!gas companies founded by 1830

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When we’re people vaccinated against small pox and by who?

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1796, Jenner

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What was the effect of the smallpox vaccine?

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Less deaths so greater population and more poor people, worsened food crisis

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Effects of Pitt’s administrative reforms

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Much more efficient administration, cut duplication of labour, brought order and method into govt business, cut unnecessary expenditure

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