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Matrimonial Clauses Act (divorce)
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Married Women’s Property Act
The Married Women’s Property Act gave women the right to keep their property
The Married Women’s Act said that a husband who left his wife had to keep paying for her maintenance -
Guardianship of Infants Act
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The campaigne for the vote
The Suffragists were moderate in their protests
The Suffragettes were more direct
After 1912 the protests got more extreme
The Government dealt with the protests harshly -
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Women's rights
Women couldn’t vote in national elections
Women’s legal rights weren’t equal –but getting better
They had a chance of an education or a professional job -
Poor people faced serious hardship
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Seebohn Rowntree published report on poverty
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Charles Booth published Life and Labour of the People in London
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The Conservative Government set up a Royal Commission to look at the Poor Law
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The workmen's Compensation Act
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Liberal Party won a landslide general election victory over the Conservatives
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Liberal reforms after the General elections
The Minority Report, combined with pressure from the general public, and the pressure from the Labour Party encouraged the Liberals to bring laws in that would deal with poverty -
School meals act
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Free Medical Inspections
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Children's Charter
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Old Age Pensions Act
People over 70 got the pensions -
Trade board act
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General elections
The Minority Report, combined with pressure from the general public, and the pressure from the Labour Party encouraged the Liberals to bring laws in that would deal with poverty -
The National Insurance Act
Health Insurance and Unemployment benefit: Employers had to pay workers compensation for injuries and diseases it they had got them as a result of their work. It covered 6 million workers who hadn’t previously had any legal protection -
Parliament act
The Lords were no longer allowed to reject bills on financial issues. They could reject other bills twice –but the third time they’d automatically become law -
the suffragettes’ campaign turn more extreme
The liberal government had accepted the idea of some women voting, and tried to put it into their Plural Voting Bill for Parliament to discuss, but the Speaker refused to let them add it. The Suffragettes were furious and protests got far more extreme and violent -
Emily Davidson died
A suffragette called Emily Davison threw herself under the feet or the King’s horse, and died of her injuries -
Defence of The Realm Act 1914
Take control of vital industries (coal, mining…)
Take over three million acres of land
Control drinking hours and the strength of alcohol
Censor newspapers
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Minimun wage
Two million workers were covered by the trade boards and so had the security of a minimum wage -
Britain declared war on Germany
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Sir John French is repleaced from the British commander
Sir Douglas Haig replaced Sir John French as the British commander -
Conscription begins
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Battle of Juttland
The British lost 14 ships, and the Germans lost 11
The British ships were more severely damaged
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Women and the vote
During the war women did “men’s jobs”
The other reasons for giving women the vote were…
Women 30+ got the vote in 1918 -
War ends
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Versailles Treaty
Germany had to return land taken from France, Belgium, Poland and others
German colonies in Africa were shared between Fr and Brit
Germany had to pay reparations of £6600 million to compensate the Allies for the cost of the war -
Women's vote goes
The vote didn’t go to all women over 21 until 1928, when women finally got equal voting rights
