Post War Distress & Discontent 1812-1820/1822
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- Post War Distress and discontent 1812-1820/1822
- After Effects of the War
- Why a Reason?
- Price of Corn fell
- Protective Tariffs
- Loss of Government orders
- Half of the blast furnaces shut
- 1/3 Million men were discharged from the army and navy
- Unemployment and lower wages
- However...
- The Corn Laws-although a piece of class legislation-did bring some stabilisation to the price of corn
- Must not be looked at in isolation of other factors
- Why a Reason?
- Agricultural and Industrial
- Why a Reason?
- De-skilling and new machinery
- Speenhamland System
- Population increase
- Enclosure
- Poor living and working conditions
- Urbanization
- Use of Truck Shops
- However...
- The Speenhamland System had good intentions
- Despite conditions in urban areas being bad, working and living conditions in rural areas were not much better
- Developments in agriculture meant that population growth was sustained-there was no mass starvation
- The effect of enclosure was probably overstated
- Why a Reason?
- Government Policies
- Why a Reason?
- Sometimes made a bad situation worse
- Not concerned with causes of distress
- Combination Acts 1799/1800
- Abolition of Income Tax
- Corn Laws
- Use of spies, informers and agent provocateurs
- Maintain Law and Order = suspencsion of Habeas Corpus;Six Acts
- However...
- Liverpool's Government did want to maintain Income Tax after the war had ended, but a majority in the House of Commons voted in favour of abolition
- Genuinely feared a revolutionary situation and acted accordingly
- Government faced problems that were unprecedented in number, scope and complexity
- Government had few effective law enforcement tools
- When the economy allowed, Liverpool's Government introduced reforms
- Government acted in moderation and with restraint
- Why a Reason?
- Lack of the Vote and the Radical Press
- Why a Reason?
- Lack of the vote removed a peaceful means of protest
- William Cobbett's Two Penny Trash
- Radical press helped people make the connection between economic distress, misgovernmetn and the need for political reform
- However...
- Although leading radicals appealed to the working class they were generally not of the working class and their interests were not necessarily working class interests
- Radicals didn't make up a coherent group or party and different radical had different views
- Why a Reason?
- After Effects of the War
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