1. Social and Economic Reform in Britain
CHAPTER 8 SECTION 2

2. Reforms in Britain Free Trade The Corn Laws Some tariffs eliminated
Belief that laissez faire would increase prosperity
The Corn Laws
High tariffs on imported grain (Wheat, barley, etc)
Wanted to keep price of grain high, so wealthy supported
1846-Repealed

3. Reform in Britain
1807—G.B. became 1st European nation to abolish the slave trade
Abolition Movement
1833—Parliament banned slavery
In terms of slavery, what happened in those 26 years?
Discuss with your neighbor

4. Reform in Britain 1800s200 crimes punishable by death
Capital Punishment
1850reduce no. of deaths
Penal colonies—Settlements for convicts
Australia

5. Women Suffrage Women 1900s—Emmeline Pankhurst
Both for and against suffrage
How do you think Queen Victoria felt about suffrage for women?
Discuss with your neighbor
1900s—Emmeline Pankhurst
Led suffragists with peace and violence
1918—Parliament granted suffrage to women OVER 30

6. Ireland Instability Irish never accepted English Absentee landlords
settlers who owned large estates but did not live on them
Peasants
Live in poverty
high rent to absentee landlords
Irish Nationalism
Catholic Emancipation Act
Allowed Irish Catholics to vote and hold office
Still harsh discrimination and oppression

7. Ireland Instability Potato Famine Fenian Brotherhood
Potatoes destroyed with disease, but landowners continued to export healthy crops.
FAMINE
Bitterness/distrust of England
Fenian Brotherhood
Goal: Liberate Ireland from British rule by force
Charles Stewart Parnell
Leader of Irish Nationalists
Wanted home rule

8. Ireland Instability Prime Minister Gladwell tried to grant liberties
Too late
1914—Home rule established for southern counties
WWI happened
1921—INDEPENDENCE