Popular protest, 1800-1850

History

Which group of people wanted to reduce food prices by burning down barns and windmills?

Which group of people destroyed stocking frames in 1811?

Which group of people destroyed threshing machines in 1830?

To destroy stocking frames and threshing machines.

Chartists were only interested in politics

In what ways were the Chartists different to earlier forms of popular protest?

When farming methods became much more efficient in the 1700s.

When the British economy grew really quickly and the population boomed.

When the people of Paris rebelled against their king in 1789.

When William of Orange replaced James II as king in 1688-89.

What 'class' were most people in nineteenth-century Britain?

Which Act banned children younger than nine from working in factories.

Because it reduced their income and made them even poorer.

Because many couldn't read the Factory Act.

Because they hated their children and it kept them in the house.

Because they thought that work made their young children healthy and strong.

Why was the Factory Act (1833) unpopular with many poor families?

What workers thought and said about their conditions

Alongside Acts passed by the government, what else do historians look at to understand how working conditions changed during the nineteenth century?