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 After the French Revolution, many countries demanded laissez-faire, government remaining out businesses. This included England. After the Corn Laws, which was meant to produce cheap foreign produce, people came to dislike the high wage. This in result created the Anti-Trust League. These people favored laissez-faire. In their efforts they managed to cause the removal of the Wheat Tariff. There many reforms that came into play during this era. In the late Victorian era, the State allowed more voting rights to the middle class. In this, they created the Voting Law, which like stated before, gave rights to both middle-class men and women at a certain age. All the Reform Acts, of 1832, 1867, and 1884, all gave or extended voting rights to previously subordinate citizens. “ The 1867 Reform Act extended the right to vote still further down the class ladder, adding just short of a million voters — including many workingmen — and doubling the electorate, to almost two million in England and Wales.” (DeLaura)
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 Also, during the reign of Prince Albert and Queen Victoria, they strove to improve the condition of slums and succeed in creating the best education. “It was a tremendously exciting period when many artistic styles, literary schools, as well as, social, political and religious movements flourished. It was a time of prosperity, broad imperial expansion, and great political reform. It was also a time, which today we associate with "prudishness" and "repression"(Miller).They then created the Foster’s Elementary Education Act, which created an education for those 5 to 12, meant to improve manufacture. Public Schools like Elton, Chester, and Westminster is types of public schools. Schools like these focused on make boys into gentlemen and structure and organize them. They generally were taught Greek and Latin and played cricket and football (soccer). The State went on to create Oxford and Cambridge, both elite schools of Europe. Ragged schools, on the other hand, were not for the prosperous, but for those who cannot afford an education with a price. __“__Charles Dickens encourages ragged schools.” (David DeLaura). He did so through his literary pieces such as //A Christmas Carol//.