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