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Placed the responsibility of dealing with poverty onto local parishes
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Limited the number of joint stock banks
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Commissioned in order to transport the coal from his mine in Worsley
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After repairing a Newcomen steam engine, he notices it wastes a lot of steam
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Ineffective
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Held that no slave could be forcibly removed from Britain
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In which the process of yarn manufacture is carried on by one machine
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Reduce Catholic discrimination
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Cross between the machines invented by Arkwright and Hargreaves
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Anti-Catholic riots following the passing of the 1778 Papist Bill to reduce Catholic discrimination
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Led by Major John Cartwright aiming to promote the need for reform
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One of the first reforms
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So that the owners could claim compensation from their insurance company
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Petition signed by 273 people
Sent to the gov
Quakers set up a 23 person committee to actively campaign for the abolition of the slave trade -
Helped develop a new negative attitude towards the slave trade
Revolutions themes of republicanism and individual liberty left the British public reconsidering attitudes to the slave trade -
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Predecessor of the modern power loom
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Attempted by PM William Pitt
Drafted by 74 votes in the commons -
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Claimed that poor relief worsened people by denying the full extent of the lesson that poverty provides
Represent the idea of self help -
Helped ignite the movement
Won a special prize at Cambridge and printed 10,000 copies
Helped win over Wilberforce -
Effect on British views of republics and indivisible liberty
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Made up of mainly Quaker and Evangelical abolitionists
Campaigned mainly through the distribution of pamphlets
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Alongside Quobna Ottobah Cugoano
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Travelled more than 35,000 miles across Britain
Collected evidence and presented to audiences
Helped set up 1,200 branches of the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade -
To highlight the evils of the Atlantic slave trade and to mark it as an issue of national outcry
Met with vastly positive public response
Over 100 petitions were presented to parliament within 3 months
Manchester sent the largest petition with 10,639 signatures (almost 20% of the city’s population) -
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Restricted the number of Africans to be carried on ships and required that a doctor be present for every voyage to maintain the health of the “cargo”
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Able to secure a select committee to investigate the Slave trade
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First hand account of his experiences
Become one of the first major non-white abolitionists -
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For the next 8 years, Wilberforce introduced an abolition bill to parliament though failing
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Set the rate of outdoor relief to the price of a loaf of bread
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Prevents workers in England from collectively bargaining in groups or through unions for better pay and improved working conditions
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Built the first working railway locomotive
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First independent black state outside Africa - Haiti - is est
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Same as during the napoleonic wars
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Fears of their skills being replaced with machines
£100,000 worth of machined and factories destroyed
Took place in Nottingham and the north of England
Led by Ned Ludd - mythical leader
Motivation = hand loom workers whose jobs were being replaced by steam powered looms
Lasted 6 years -
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Aimed at increasing the penalties for Luddite behaviour to discourage it
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Encourages free trade and handing ports to the employers
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Passed when the penalty for stealing a rebut was death
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To help miners see in the dark
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Prohibited the importation of foreign corn until the price of domestic corn reached 10 shillings a bushel
Designed to protect British farmers from foreign competition
Artificially isolated the price of bread -
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Marched towards Nottingham expecting to be part of a national uprising to overthrow the government
Tricked them and forced to arrest them - Jeremiah Brandeth was hung for his role -
Permits arrest without trial and imprisonment without charge
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Parish communities could scrutinise relief going and recommend the level of provision
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Required that no children under the age of 9 could be employed in cotton mills with a maximum of 16 hours a day for under 16
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Parish communities could scrutinise and decide the level of provisions
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Limited child labour to 12 hours per day
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Brought about Robert Owen
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Henry Hunt spoke to the crowd at St. Peter’s Fields in Manchester
Sabre charged by yeomanry into the crowd
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Believed to have caused irritation, discontent and rise to violence
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Due to poor harvests in the Oates 1820s, introduction of the threshing machine, winter unemployment as a result of machinery, poverty and hunger
Sent threatening letters
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Adds £10/year householders to the voting rolls and reapportions parliamentary representation much more fairly, doing away with most rotten boroughs and pocket boroughs
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Abolished slavery in all British territories
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Forbade the employment of children under 9 in all textile mills
Children under 13 were not allowed to work for more than 9 hours a day and 48 hours per week
Under 18s not allowed to work for more than 12 hours a day or night at all
Factory children had to have 2 hours of education a day
Was not enforced enough as there were only 4 inspectors -
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Pointless - no way of enforcing
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Pointless - no way of enforcing
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First health and safety act in Britain
All dangerous machinery to be fenced off
No child to clean mill machinery in motion
Limited children to side and a half hours of work
3 hours schooling
Max 12 hour days for 13-18
12 hour rule applied to women -
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Passed regulating work hours of women and children
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Important because it showed the inventions of the Industrial Revolution
International event
Many thousands attended -
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Extended the regular hours to 10 for children between 8-15
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Repealed some of the safety features established in 1844
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Due to the American civil war and lack of raw materials
Mill closures and mass unemployment -
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Was extended to include all work places employing more than 50 workers
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Enfranchise many working men
Adds 938,000 to an electorate of 1,057,000 in England and Wales
Extended the vote to all households and lodgers in boroughs who paid a rent of £10 a year or more -
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Enforces compulsory education
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Consolidation of sanitary legislation
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Government aid for housing
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Legalises peaceful picketing
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Allows women to buy, own and sell property, and to keep their own earnings
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