Context sentences! by cthohs https://padlet.com/colleen_hohs/s1khcqrap37v Liberal Reforms en-us 2017-10-05 16:12:53 UTC 2026-03-18 04:55:16 UTC hello@padlet.com Britain was stuck in a state of “Laissez Faire”, meaning the state refused to interfere in the social affairs of the people and the workings of the market economy, as well as believing that poverty was “self-inflicted”. Things finally began to change when a period of economic depression was recognised, resulting in a later government shift due to the Liberal’s landslide in the 1906 general election. https://padlet.com/colleen_hohs/s1khcqrap37v/wish/194598858 2017-10-06 09:06:13 UTC https://padlet.com/colleen_hohs/s1khcqrap37v/wish/194598858 https://padlet.com/colleen_hohs/s1khcqrap37v/wish/194598890 35% of Londons population lived in poverty. Between 1906-1914 the Liberals introduced a wide range of reforms to tackle the major issue of poverty in Britian. There were several periods of economic depression in the 1870's and 80's where it became clear that voluntary effort and existing measures could not cope with the unemployed poor.

]]> 2017-10-06 09:06:19 UTC https://padlet.com/colleen_hohs/s1khcqrap37v/wish/194598890 https://padlet.com/colleen_hohs/s1khcqrap37v/wish/194598987 The government began to believe that their job was to keep law and order, not to people's personal lives, so they left people to do what they needed to survive.  
As a result of this, the rapidly increasing population lead to overcrowding and a rising poverty rate, this was not scheduled to change as it was a common belief that the poor because of the laziness in their life. ]]> 2017-10-06 09:06:38 UTC https://padlet.com/colleen_hohs/s1khcqrap37v/wish/194598987 https://padlet.com/colleen_hohs/s1khcqrap37v/wish/194599065 In victorian Britan, the majority of lower class citizens had terrible health care and lived in the slums. Workers began to build their own houses and reports came out about the workers living conditions which pressured the upper class into helping them. ]]> 2017-10-06 09:06:54 UTC https://padlet.com/colleen_hohs/s1khcqrap37v/wish/194599065 https://padlet.com/colleen_hohs/s1khcqrap37v/wish/194599505 Victorian Britain was filled with slums where most people weren't expected to live past childhood. Pneumonia was a common illness and families didn't have their own homes. There were several periods of economic depression in the 1870's and 1880's where it became clear that voluntary effort and existing measures could not cope with the unemployed


]]> 2017-10-06 09:08:51 UTC https://padlet.com/colleen_hohs/s1khcqrap37v/wish/194599505 https://padlet.com/colleen_hohs/s1khcqrap37v/wish/194599859 Laissez Faire was a common belief in Vitorian Britain. This is when people believed that poverty was self inflicted and that it was your responsibility to get yourself out of it.]]> 2017-10-06 09:10:11 UTC https://padlet.com/colleen_hohs/s1khcqrap37v/wish/194599859 https://padlet.com/colleen_hohs/s1khcqrap37v/wish/194600005 There were not many jobs at this time which meant many  were left unemployed.

]]> 2017-10-06 09:10:51 UTC https://padlet.com/colleen_hohs/s1khcqrap37v/wish/194600005 https://padlet.com/colleen_hohs/s1khcqrap37v/wish/194600346 In Victorian Britain many children did not go to school, often because they had to work as their family was in poverty and so children had to work to help support them. ]]> 2017-10-06 09:12:21 UTC https://padlet.com/colleen_hohs/s1khcqrap37v/wish/194600346 colleen_hohs https://padlet.com/colleen_hohs/s1khcqrap37v/wish/194600703 Victorian Britain had lots of poverty. many people stayed in boarding houses and struggled to put food on the table. The British people but mainly the government believed in laissez faire- do it yourself. This changed at the turn of the 20th century and reforms were introduced, their success debatable. However the liberals gained a landslide victory which would change the poverty situation.]]> 2017-10-06 09:13:52 UTC https://padlet.com/colleen_hohs/s1khcqrap37v/wish/194600703 https://padlet.com/colleen_hohs/s1khcqrap37v/wish/194601043 Poverty was a widespread and common issue throughout Britain. People believed that people were in poverty because of things such as alcoholism or wasting money.]]> 2017-10-06 09:15:23 UTC https://padlet.com/colleen_hohs/s1khcqrap37v/wish/194601043 colleen_hohs https://padlet.com/colleen_hohs/s1khcqrap37v/wish/194602378 By the end of the 19th century there was increasing evidence that poverty had causes beyond the individual’s actions and that intervention from the government was required to help with this. Following the 1906 landslide victory of the Liberal party, a series of reforms were introduced in order to help solve the social problems plaguing Britain. 


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