Social Flashcards

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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

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1825

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Amending Act

prohibited strike action

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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

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4
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1832

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  • Great Reform Act

extended the franchise from 435,000 to 217,000

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5
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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)
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1834

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  • Poor Law Amendment Act (replaced out Speedhamland System of outdoor poor relief with indoor relief)
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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
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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)
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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
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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)
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1841

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  • Chartist movement revitalised after economic slump
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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)
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13
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1843

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James Graham attempts to introduce factory education

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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)
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1845

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Financial Budget 2 (abolished most duties)

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1846

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  • Baths and Wash House Act (to encourage local authorities to build public baths and washhouses)
  • Kay Shuttleworth’s National System of Teacher Training proposal rejected)
  • Peel’s Agricultural Drainage Act
  • Corn Law Repeal (made bread cheaper, staple diet of working class)
  • Lord Ashley’s 10 Hour Bill failed
17
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1847

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  • Economic Depression

- Ten Hour Act (after Lord Ashley’s campaigning)

18
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1848

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  • Young Ireland Rising put down by police
  • Public Health Act (Edwin Chadwick played key role, economic argument,, central board of health, local boards of health in areas of high death, loans for public health infrastructure but provided framework only)
19
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1850

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  • Factory Act (after employers found loopholes. Free time after 2pm Saturday, more leisure time, football became national sport).
20
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1851

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  • Saltaire (village built)
21
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1859

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  • System of sewers built in London by Joseph Bazalgette
22
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1860s

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  • Housing Acts
23
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1864

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  • Factory Act extended

- The Reform Union formed

24
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1866

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  • Sanitary Act made local authorities responsible for sewers, water and street cleaning.
25
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1865

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  • The Reform League formed
26
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1867

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  • The Second Reform Act
27
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1869

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  • The Charity Organisation Society formed to make sure charity was not abused.
28
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1871

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  • Factory Act extended
29
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1875

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  • Second Public Health Act

- Chimney Sweepers Act

30
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1823

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  • Anti-Slavery society formed by William Wilberforce
31
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1831-1832

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  • Uprisings from slaves in Jamaica, led to a Parliamentary enquiry into slavery and then the Abolition of Slavery Act 1833