Feb 12 The "Age of Improvement"?
| 1824 | repeal of the Combination Acts |
| 1828 | repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts |
| 1829 | Catholic Emancipation |
| 1832 | the Great Reform Act |
| 1833 | abolition of slavery |
| 1834 | New Poor Law |
| 1835 | Municipal Corporations Act |
| 1846 | repeal of the Corn Law |
| 1848 | Responsible Government (for Canada) |
impetus for reform:
-evangelical movement
-liberalism
-middle class ambitions
-abolition movement
I. Tory reform
II. Catholic emancipation
III. 1832
Chartism
IV. other reforms: slavery, Corn Law, colonial government
