Explain the Causes of Popular Protests Between 1815 and 1822
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Explain the Causes of Popular Protests Between 1815 and 1822 There are several causes of popular protest in this period as at this time there was considerable discontent which was the ultimate product of the industrial revolution and post-war depression. However the government often instead of making the situation better they made it a lot worse which encouraged popular protests for reform. One of the major factors contributing to this discontent and causing protests was the fact that Britain had changed from an agricultural nation to an large industrial power in the space of a extremely short time this changed average peoples lives drastically as many people moved from the country into the city in search of work but this only made their lives even worse because they often lived in poverty surviving on the most basic wage supplemented by truck shop tokens which they could exchange for food in the company...

