These all promoted free trade, hence attempting an improvement within the economy. Using Huskinson’s Corn Law scale, lower classes were dealt with during poor harvests. This suggests change and an argument for 1822 being a turning point in British politics as the country appeared to become more liberal. Liberal Tories intended to improve social conditions in order for the Government to be labelled as ‘Enlightened Tory.’ Home Office reforms such as the Repeal of the Combination Act were introduced, granting workers the right to express their grievances through trade unions, and a reform enabling a fairer justice system was set up, stopping
8) What was indentured servitude and how did it differ from the Latin labor system of the encomienda? 9) What were the exports (both foodstuffs and otherwise) that the French and British sought to acquire from North America? Study Guide 18 10) What impact did tobacco play in the New World trade? 11) What was the relationship between the sugar trade and the African slave trade in the West Indies? Why were indentured servants sometimes preferred over African slaves.
The Old Poor Law of 1834 was reformed because it could not cope due to the large numbers of people claiming poor relief. This was due to population rise, commercialisation of farming which left people with no jobs, decline of agricultural crafts, harvest failures, food shortages due to war, higher food prices and change in attitude to claiming social welfare as there was no stigma attached to being poor anymore. This led to different measures such as the introduction of the Speenhamland system of 1795. Having investigated the reasons for the reformation of the Poor Law, we will now focus on the reasons that led to the reform. There were six main reasons that led to the old Poor Law Reform to easily pass which were: a willing government, Tories were a minority, Climate change, objectors were not listened to, and a Report based on evidence collected by the commission of enquiry.
To see any negative view of the slave-trade, the reader must turn to the perspective of Oroonoko. Through him the reader sees how horrible the treatment of slaves is and how inhuman the slave-trade is. It might escape me, but I do not recall any moment in the story where the narrator takes its upon herself to discuss the slave trade. It seems that in that way that she is disconnecting herself from any responsibility. One could immediately say that this is because of her position at the time.
3). In conclusion, just because the South didn’t know much about politics it slowed down Reconstruction, and the Ku-Klux-Klan helped kill Reconstruction. (Doc. D) The Northern neglect was also a big reason for the death of Reconstruction. There was a panic of 1873 from corruption in Ulysess S. Grant’s administration (Doc.
When the Europeans set sail to America they were expecting a life better than they left behind. In the colonies, tension was growing. Two events that clearly show these tensions are theSalem Witchcraft trials in 1692 and the Stono Rebellion in 1793. These tensions grew fromunsettled things in the colonies. Socially, slaves were bottom the class pyramid and were treated bad and this caused them to revolt.
There were also other key factors such as the ideas of new liberalism, national efficiency, political pragmatism and national security to be taken into consideration of why the government changed its policy. It can be argued that the investigations of Charles Booth and Seebohm Rowntree results into Britain’s poverty were a significant motivating factor behind social reform in the nineteenth century. It revealed the true and mainly unsuspected levels of poverty which the wealthier classes of Britain were unaware of and was difficult to ignore as it was based on hard scientific data that the Victorians admired greatly and not simply an opinion by leading the government by abandoning its policy and adapting a more interventionist approach. The first investigation was conducted by Charles Booth, originally a Liverpool ship owner but by 1889 a London businessman, who doubted the claims of socialists that a quarter of the population lived in extreme poverty. At first he believed that the level of poverty in Britain was limited and could be dealt with by charity.
Hutchinson letters affair, 1773 * Dec 1772, the relationship between G.B and American colonies was strained following the Sugar, Stamp, Quartering, Declatory and Townshend Acts. * Franklin a parliamentary representative of several colonies received a package of letters in which Hutchinson, the royal governor of Mass, recommended that popular government to be taken away from the people ‘by degrees’ and there should be an ‘abridgement of English liberties.’ * The letters were published in Boston’s Gazette 1773. The Tea Act 1773 * Was designed to save near bankrupt East India Co. rather than assert parliamentary sovereignty over the colonies. * Aim: relieve the financial stresses of the company by permitting it to export tea to the colonies. * The Act abolished British duties on the company’s tea while obliging
Chapter 20 Study Guide Vocabulary: 1. Factories - Portuguese trading fortresses and compounds with resident merchants; utilized throughout Portuguese trading empire to assure secure landing places and commerce 2. El Mina - most important of early Portuguese trading factories in the forest zone of Africa. 3. Royal African Company - chartered in 1660s to establish a monopoly over the slave trade among British merchants; supplied African slaves to colonies Barbados, Jamaica, and Virginia 4. triangular trade - commerce linking Africa, the new world colonies, and Europe; slaves carried to America for sugar, and tobacco transported to Europe 5.
How did society's attitude change towards the poor from 1830-1914? How did the Government deal with poverty during this period? Before the 1830's people who were subject to poverty were looked upon as lazy and deserving of their situation. People of this time thought the main three causes of poverty was idealness, drunkenness and thriftiness. Factors that contributed to changes from this were help from social investigators like Booth and Rowntree, artistic contributions from Dickens and Dore and a realisation that the Boer's war impaired Britain’s national efficiency.