Anti-Corn Law League
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- Created on: 18-03-19 19:11
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- Anti-Corn Law League
- Aims
- Repeal the Corn Laws
- Allow the workers to be able to feed themselves
- Methods
- Bills introduced to Parliament
- Memorabelia such as jugs and cups
- Influencing elections through voter registration
- One-Issue group
- Key Events
- 1815, Parliament passed the Corn Laws
- 1833, first Anti-Corn Law league
- 1837-45, Annual votes in Parliament
- 1844 - Good harvest
- 1845 - Bad harvest led to an awful famine in Ireland
- 1846 - Corn Laws repealed
- Significance
- Long Term
- Challenged the influence of the land-owning classes
- Short Term
- First time the government acted in the interests of the poor over the landed gentry
- Demonstrated the political power of the urban classes
- Long Term
- Key individuals
- Robert Peel
- Primeminister at the time, repealed the corn laws in 1846
- Robert Peel
- Aims
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