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The Industrial Revolution

Politics

The woollen industry was no longer the most important industry of the time by

1830 the citizens traded in their spinning wheels and handlooms. They went tothe factories that were being established in the North, the Midlands and South

Wales. (Lane, P.1972,13). This meant that a lot of people were moving away

creating larger populations around factories and expanding industries.

Cotton, Coal , Iron industries were expanding. (Lane, P.1972,13).

Towns Health and Housing

Local Government

When a mine owner or business owner developed their company, new homes

had to be made, There was no national law laying down standards of housing ,or the width of streets. (Lane, P.1972,44). More people equalled more waste

that the builders of the time were not prepared. They didnt know how to dealwith this problem, resulting in poor sanitation problems that also resulted in an

inadequate water supply for most places (Lane, P.1972,44). The local councils of

the time were also unsure about how to deal with the rising issues.

Lancashire had their own Lord of the manor, he was responsible for the area of

Mosley but he was understaffed and inexperienced, unable to cope with the

rapid growth of the new giant (Lane, P.1972,44). The referral to this age as anew giant explains a lot about the time this was a huge step up from the small

towns, the industrial revolution supersized everything but this was a large leapforward into the future that the government and local authorities were not

prepared for.

Housing

The industrial industry took a lot of the funds from the National Income resulting

in money being spent on building new factories and equipment for mass

production. Money was also being spent on canals , bridges, shops, reservoirs

and early railways. This decision on how to spend money on these growing cities

resulted in a small amount of money being left over to develop the towns and to

create new houses.(Lane, P.1972,44). From the little left over the rich were alsoclaiming back some money using this to build new homes or rebuilding older

homes. The builders and landlords at the time new that the working class having

a low salary could only pay a small amount of rent resulting in the builders only

creating low quality houses (Lane, P.1972,45) for the working class citizens.


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Figure 1 Figure 1,Working Class housing- Jacobs Island in London (2013)

Figure 1 is an example of what a working class home would have looked like,

very shabby with little attention to detail or workmanship. These houses looked

more like death traps than homes, and it can be seen that these homes were veryinadequate. Houses like these would normally have had no sanitary system or a

water supply inside, a toilet and water supply ( stand pipe) at the end of a row of

200 houses would be placed for the residents to share. Some towns took their

water supplies from the local rivers, London took theirs from the Thames which

was also where their sewage was dumped.(Lane, P.1972,46)

The industrial revolution meant the increase of death rates because of poor

sanitation the average life span for working class children was 17 and for a

middle class child was 20. (Lane, P.1972,47)

Radical Reform, The 1819 Massacre

Reformers were people who wanted the government to change their ways and to

allow fair elections. Parliament elections were usually rigged majority of the

members of the houses of commons, were the sons of lords waiting for their

fathers to die so that they could also be lords (Lane, P.1972,52) and the others

who made up the remaining government got in through rigged elections. The

people wanted a change and a reformed parliament. Radical reformers

encouraged others to demand reform from the government also Hunt and Robert

Owen held meetings across the country encouraging people to demand reform.

Their meeting at St Peters field ended in a massacre 11 people died and 400

people were wounded. The magistrates feared that their meeting on reformwould cause an uprising so ordered the the local yeomen to arrest Hunt. The


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crowd resisted and the yeomen charged, killing and wounding members of the

crowd as they went.( British Library .1820) The governments actions show

how they tried to cut off people who were trying to oppose them but the

massacre created martyrs for the cause.

The Cato Street Conspiracy that failed (1820)

Although some believed in a reformation others believed that the only way to

save the government was to wipe it out and start fresh. Arthur Thistlewood

plotted to blow up the Cabinet but his plan failed when the police got a hold of

his plot and guards arrested some of his companions although Thislewood

escaped he was captured and arrested the next day. He was later decapitated for

being guilty of high treason( M, Bloy . 2011).

Chartism

The Chartism movement occurred during 1838-1848, the people who supported

this movement wanted 6 things; manhood suffrage; the ballot; abolition of

property qualifications for MPs; payment of MPs; equal electoral districts; and

annual elections. (S,Roberts.1999). These things would allow for the

workingman to able to also run as a member of parliament.

Wars

Temne War Britain against the Susu tribe. Britain won. 1801-1805

First Kandyan War- Britain against the Kingdom of Kandy. Britain won. 1803-1805.

Napoleonic Wars occurred between 1803-1815

(Napoleonic War)Gunboat War Britain against Denmark Norway- Britain

won.1807-1814.

(Napoleonic War)Peninsular war United kingdom, Spain & Portugal against theFrench Empire. 1807-1814.


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Bibliography

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