Discontent after 1815
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- Why was there discontent among ordinary people after 1815
- New Machinery
- Luddism uprising
- Fall in corn prices
- Basic food for majority of Britain
- Bad for British farmers
- Corn Laws
- Napoleonic war and blockade resulted in the 1815 Corn Laws
- Rapid population growth
- 1812 population stood at 14.1 million
- Fluctuations in food prices
- Wage earners generally had larger families
- High level of unemployment
- Combination Laws
- Banning of Trade Unions
- Combined with bad industrial conditions, this caused discontent
- Industrial slump
- Government were losing support of middle class
- Conditions in industrial towns
- Injuries and disease
- Low wages and labourous hours
- Income tax abolished
- Abolished in 1816
- Previously taxed the wealthy and avoided indirect taxing
- Government repression
- Elitism
- Refusal to make concessions
- Peterloo Massacre
- Speenhamland system
- Sliding scale of bread prices
- New Machinery
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