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Answer all questions given under each heading. Labour Movement (a) Which Act prohibited the formation of associations of workers?(b) Name the Bill which granted voting rights to propertied middle class?(c) When were the Combination Laws repealed?(d) What were the demands of the Chartists?

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(a) Combination Laws of 1799 prohibited the formation of associations of workers.

(b) The Reform Bill of 1832 granted voting rights only to the propertied middle class.

(c) The Combination Laws were repealed in 1824.

(d) The Chartists called for voting rights to every man over twenty-one years of age, secret ballot (voting), abolition of property qualification for members of the parliament, annual parliamentary elections and equal representation.



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