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Poor Law amendment act
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First Parliamentary reform act
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Repeal of the Corn laws
-Leads to a split in the Tory Party -
Factory act
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Revival of trade unionism
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The Great Exhibition
-Showcases inventiveness of British Industries -
Golden Age in agriculture and industrial progress
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Period: to
Crimean war
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Self Help published
-By Samuel Smiles
-Epitomises Victorian values
-Sense of duty, strength of character, thrift and self-help -
Lord Palmerston dies
-Makes way for parliamentary reform -
Second Reform act
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First Trade Union Congress
-Held in Manchester
-brought pressure to get the government to give trade unions legal recognition -
The Married Women's property act
-gave married women legal status
-Allowed them to keep a proportion of their own earnings -
Foster's Education Act
-provision for elementary schools to be set up -
Education act
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Trade Union act
-established legal rights of unions to hold property and funds and have them protected by law
-Also gave them the right to strike -
The Criminal law amendment act
-Made any form of picketing illegal -
Licensing act
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The conspiracy and protection of property act
-replaced the criminal law amendment act
-Legalised peaceful picketing -
Public Health act
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Artisans Dwelling Act
-Gave the local authority to purchase, clear and redevelop slums
-Chamberlain did this in Birmingham -
Sandon's education act
-Provided school places for all children -
Germany introduces trade tariffs
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Legal age of consent raised to 16
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Asquith Coalition government
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UK join World War 1
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DORA passed
-Defence Of the Realm Act -
Munitions war act
-Prevented munitions from resigning and moving to a new job without their employers consent -
Representation of the Peoples act
-Universal male suffrage
-Limited female suffrage
-Redistribution of parliamentary sears
-Absent voting
-Electoral system reform -
Election - Tories win
-Bonar Law PM