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British Voting Rights and Social Reforms (19th-20th Century)

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Multiple Choice

What were the underlying principles of the 1834 Poor Law Act?

  1. The poor should be treated the same no matter where they lived.
  2. The life in the workhouse should be made harder than the life of the worst-off labourer living outside it, so that poor would only go into the workhouse as the last resort.
  3. Both A and B
  4. Neither A nor B