LIBERAL REFORM IN GREAT BRITAIN |
Twenty Critical Events and Turning Points in Modern European History |
Year |
Legislation |
Impact |
1828 | Repeal of Test and Corporation Acts | Public office holders no longer required to take communion in Anglican Church |
1829 | Catholic Emancipation Act | Catholics permitted to hold office and serve in Parliament |
1832 | Reform Bill of 1832 |
a) Lowered minimum franchise requirement b) Electorate almost doubled -- 1 in 5 adult male citizens able to vote |
1833 | Slavery abolished in British Empire | |
1833 |
Factory Act |
a) Prohibited employment of children under age 9 b) Workers ages 9-12 limited to 8-hour workdays (maximum 48 hours per week) c) Workers ages 13-18 limited to 12-hour workdays (maximum 69 hours per week) |
1834 | Poor Law Amendment Act | Able-bodied paupers to be incarcerated in workhouses |
1835 | Municipal Corporations Act | Replaced old borough governments w/ elected municipal corporations |
1846 | Repeal of the Corn Laws |
a) Reduced tariffs on wheat and other agricultural imports b) Represented a defeat for English landowners |
1848 | National Health Act | Established national Board of Health |
1854 & 1856 | Non-Anglicans permitted to attend Cambridge and Oxford Universities | |
1866 | Public Health Act | Local government granted more authority to maintain clean water supply |
1867 | Reform Bill of 1867 |
a) Lowered minimum franchise requirement b) Doubled size of electorate |
1870 |
Education Act |
a) Education became mandatory for children under 13 b) Tax-supported schools to be built where needed |
1880 |
a) All children ages 5-10 required to attend school b) Established conditions by which children under 15 could leave school |
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