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By this time the French population had reached 32.5 million people.
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While the French began to build railways in 1832 real constructuon started to take off in the late 1840's.
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The act forbids the employment of children under the age of nine in a factory and limited the hours of work from ages 9-13 to nine hours. It also required the owners of the factory to pay for at least two hours of schooling a day.
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All the German states except Austria formed a free trade union.
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By the 1850's over 5000 kilomneters of rail has been laid.
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William Lovet creats the LWMA under the idea of Chartism, in 1838 they issued a Charter to Parliament demanding six reforms.
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Louise Aston a German radical published a poem about the plight of factory workers in Silesia.
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A fungus infects the major varities of potatos causeing the crops to fail, over 1 million had starved to death or emmigrated.
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Britian had over 9500 kilometers of lines and France nearly 3000. (Germany has already been put up.)
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In 20 years the French grew from 32.5 million to 35.8 million people.
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The exhibtion was held to show the progress in the Brisith Empire in industry and commerce.
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