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William Wilberforce spent years helping to end slavery, get suffrage for all, increase factory working conditions and make it so everyone could get an education while being sheltered from vices.
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Cities' populations grew exponentioally, and urbinization was at it's peek.
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Although slaves aren't free it becomes Illegal to sell/trade them.
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This expanded suffrage to the upper middle class men, thus the number of people that could vote increased to about 20%.
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Made it illegal for children under 9 to work in factories and children 9-12 could only work 8 hours a day, 13-17 year olds 12 hours
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Made it so women and childrens work days couldn't last longer than ten hours in factories,
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Granted the right to vote to men who paid rent of at least £10 a year, this nearly doubled the number of men who could vote.
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The Act led to development of the schools away from the traditional exclusively classics-based curriculum, to something some what more modern.
