Industrial Revolution
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- Created on: 02-04-17 14:55
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- Industrial Revolution 1750-1850
- The growth of industry in Great Britain from 1750- late 1800s.
- Britain began to make money from products which it made, not products which it grew.
- The movement of people and rapid growth of cities caused old methods of law enforcement to break down.
- Challenges to authority
- Poor living and working conditions- workers were desperate for reform.
- Revolution in France (1789) encouraged people to do the same.
- People wanted the right tot vote, strike and criticize the government.
- No police force until 1829 so soldiers used to control.
- Law used to control people who protested about how Britain was run.
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