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All Topics begins with "Poor Law"

 

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Details 1662  Act of Settlement: poor can only receive help from their native parish. *Poor Law  
Details 1696  Act of Parliament establishes Workhouses. *The Poor Law  
Details 1723  The Workhouse Act or Test (to get relief, the poor person has to enter the Workhouse). The Waltham Black Act adds 50 capital offenses to the penal code: people could be sentenced to death for theft and poaching. This Act has been said to "signal the onset of the floodtide of eighteenth-century retributive justice" (Thompson 23). Excise tax levied for coffee, tea, and chocolate. *Poor Law
*Economics  
Details 1782  Gilbert's Act established outdoor poor relief. *Radicalism
*Poor Law  
Details 1833  Harriet Martineau, Poor Laws and Paupers Illustrated. *Poor Law
*Economics  
Details 1834  New Poor Law argues that indiscriminate relief demoralizes beneficiaries, abolishes outdoor relief, and maintains workhouse inmates at salary level below lowest paid workers. *Poor Law
*Economics  
Details 1834  Reform Movement: Lord Lyndhurst declares Poor Man's Guardian not a newspaper and thus legal. *Parliamentary Reform
*Radicalism
*Poor Law  

 


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