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  1. 10 hours Act: made work day no more than 10 hours, CHILDREN: every 6 hours they get 2 hours of education
  2. business aristocracy: new industrail elite
  3. Chadwick: Report On........; advocating a system of modern sanitary reforms (efficent sewers and supply of piped water)
  4. Chartism: secret ballots, Universal Manhood Suffrage, pay for MP's
  5. Cholera: deadly disease, outbrakes in th early 1830's to late 1840's
  6. Coal mine Acts: eliminated boys under 10 and women in mines
  7. Combination Acts: made unions and strikes illegal
  8. Factory Act of 1833: Decressed amount of chidren in factory
  9. Industrail Working Class: Proletaniat; overexploited bc of increasing labor pool
  10. Industrial Middle Class: burgers/merchants; developed bc of social mobility
  11. Kay-Shuttleworth: Cholera caused by sanitation problems; Par. and local gov. need to fix it
  12. Luddites: scared of machines, agaist new industrailization, take away trad. jobs
  13. Owan: Utopian Socalism, New Harmony(failed)
  14. Poor Law (1820): made being poor against the law; put poor people in the poor houses
  15. Poor Law Commisioners: noted that the lives were hopeless; crime, prostitution, and sexuaul immoraliry
  16. Population Growth: caused by decline in death rate,and decline in major epidemic diseases (plague and smallpox)
  17. Public Health Act: formed local borads to est. modern sanitary systems
  18. Rapid Urbanization: first half of the 19th Century
  19. The Great Hunger: summer of 1850, Irish potato crop struk by fungus, over 1 million died of starvation and disease, 2 million emigrated to the Americas and Britian
  20. Urban Conditions: dirty, smelly, unsanitary
  21. Wordsworth: Romantism, over-explotation of land and labor