Social reformers (AQA GCSE History): Flashcards

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Octavia Hill's main reform area

Housing reform

Organisation Octavia Hill founded

National Trust

Elizabeth Fry's religious background

Quaker

Elizabeth Fry's main reform focus

Prison reform for women

Year Fry influenced Peel on prisons

1823

Shaftesbury's schools for poor children

Ragged Schools

What 1875 Chimney Sweeps Act ended

Children being sent up chimneys

Main motivation for social reformers

Religious beliefs/Christian duty

When working-class men gained the vote

1867

What 1870 Education Act established

School districts

When education became compulsory (& age)

1880 (age 10)

Year education made free

1891

New schools founded by 1874

Over 5,000

What 1875 Public Health Act forced councils to do

Improve sewage, drains, water & disease control

Purpose of Artisans' Dwelling Act 1875

Clearance of slums in English cities

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