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British reform acts
mr. treadwell.
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History
10th Grade
03/04/2009

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 1802 FACTORY ACT
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Protected pauper apprentices

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1819 FACTORY ACT

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Limited Child Labor in the cotton industrry

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1820-25 LEGAL ACTS

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Reformed Criminal Codes

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1823-1827 TARIFF ACTS

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Reduced tariffs

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1825 LABOR ACT

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Modified the Combination Acts

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1828 TEST ACT REPEALED

 

 

 

 

 

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Admitted nonconformists to political office

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1829 CATHOLIC EMANCIPATION

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Admimtted Catholics to office

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1832 REFORM BILL

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Eliminated rotten boroughs

Increased the electorate

Provided representation for industrial towns

 

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1833 FACTORY ACT
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Limited working hours for children
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1834 NEW POOR LAW
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Limited working hours for children
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1842 FACTORY ACT
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Protected Mine Workers
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1844 FACTORY ACT
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Protected Women Workers
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1846 CORN LAW REPEAL
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Repealed tariff on grain
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1864 CONTAGIOUS DISEASES ACT
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Required medical exam for prostitutes
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1867 REFORM BILL
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Enfranchised working and lower middle class
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1869 DISESTABLISHMENT ACT
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Disestablished Anglican Church in Ireland
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1870 LAND ACT
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Basis for agraarian reforms in Ireland
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1870 EDUCATION ACT
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Basis for Compulsory Education
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1875 TRADE UNION ACT
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Ended limitations placed on unions
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1875 FACTORY ACT
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Reduced workweek to 56 hours
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1875 ARTISANS DWELLING ACT
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Defined unsanitary housing, state inspection
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1884 REFORM BILL
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Enfranchised rural labor and miners
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1885 REDISTRIBUTION ACT
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Redistributed seats in House of Commons
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1911 PARLIAMENT ACT
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Destroyed veto power of House of Lords
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1912 THIRD HOME RULE BILL
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For separate Irish Parliament--passed, but not enacted
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1918 REFORM ACT
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Limited plural voting. Allowed women over 30 who held property or had degrees the vote.
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