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To what extent were governments responsible for popular protest in the period 1815-28?
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To what extent were governments responsible for popular protest in the period 1815-28? In 1815 the corn laws were passed which meant any import of corn had to pay duties until the cost of British corn reached 80s a quarter. New machinery was taking the jobs form many people; this was known as the industrial revolution. Radicals (influenced by the French revolution and American war of independence) influenced the working class to protest. The economic state of the country caused unrest, by the depressions. Governments took a laissez faire approach to the unrest, and all protests ended in riots, such as the spa field riots 1819 and Peterloo massacre. Protest was popular from 1815-22; the government introduced the six acts 1819 and the game laws. The six acts stopped mass gathering for protest, didn't allow seditious literature to be owned by anyone and put the price of newspapers up with stamp duties. The government were mostly to blame...
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