Englandâ??s role as the most industrialized nation in Europe expanded the Middle Class and prompted reforms from Parliament. The 1832 Reform act, gave the Middle Class suffrage. The 1867 Reform gave the vote to both male house owners as well as a good portion of male lodgers, increasing the voting ranks by 1,500,000. This also gave voting rights to working class men. The 1872 Secret Ballot Act, made voting a private act, thus weakening the power of landlords in elections. The 1884 Reform Act expanded suffrage to farmers and laborers in the countryside.
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The Education Reform Act during the Victorian Period was brought into English education legislature in 1988.
They were sent to a master who would teach them a trade in return for their room and board. Brought into English prisons, and be sold for seven to fourteen years. Slaves were brought from Africa and sold to Americans.
Well for starters, they introduced the "you're innocent until proven guilty" into the court systems.
to prevent abuse of power by William and Mary and all future monarchs, Parliaments in 1689 drew up a list of provisions to which William and Mary had to agree. this document "The English Bill Of rights" prohibited a standing army in peacetime, except with the consent of parliment and required that all parliamentary elections be free. Our nation has built on changed and added to those ideas and institutions that the settlers brought here from England. still much in American Government and politics today is based on these early English ideas.