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"you can have the body" in Latin. Everyone is entitled to a legal and fair trial when it comes to crime. -
Caused the country to be in debt -
allowed troops to use force if people didn’t disperse within one hour. -
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One of the most violent Luddites’ manifestation. This was considered
as the first major terrorist acts in Britain according to a local history website. After rioters were arrested, they were executed
by hanging publicly outside the Lancaster Castle.
This led to Destruction of Stocking Frames : Machine breaking became a capital crime. Government reaction to the Luddites. -
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repression towrds acts of manifestation. -
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After negotiation between Russel and King IV -
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Gave the right to vote to all householders who paid 10 pounds or more in yearly rent. Abolished many "rotten boroughs," and gave more represent to industrial cities. Brought negativeand restrictive toward women, Made changes possible for the future. -
Members of the Friendly Society (union of solidarity between workers) were sentenced to seven years' penal transportation to Australia for violation of the unlawful Oaths Act. Public backlash led to enormous protests, mass meetings and a petition signed by 800,000 people. Their case became a nationally symbolic fight for labourers and workers' rights -
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If previously in the majority of the cases the child custody was awarded to the father, the Custody of Infants Act 1839 permitted a mother to petition the courts for custody of her children up to the age of seven, and for access in respect of older children -
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The "Great Depression" of the Victorian Era
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Abolishment of prostirution and other sexual activities that were believed to be immoral according to Christian morality.
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Scramble for Africa. European powers divided Africa into colonies; Britain gained large territories.
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Fought in South Africa between British and Dutch settles (Boers); highlighted imperial tensions and brutality