LITERATURE QUESTIONS
MISCELLENEOUS QUESTIONS
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The treaty of Versaille
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The Combination Act
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The importation Act
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The laissez faire policy
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Combination Act 1799 (39 Geo. III, c. 81) titled An Act to prevent Unlawful Combinations of Workmen, prohibited trade unions and collective bargaining by British workers. The Act received royal assent on 12 July 1799.
Detailed explanation-2: -1799–1800. These Acts were directed against trade unions (combinations of workmen) when the government feared unrest and even revolution. They failed to crush the unions, but did force them to operate circumspectly or secretly.
Detailed explanation-3: -Parliament in 1795 passed two Combination Acts which made it illegal to ‘incite the people by speech or writing to hatred or contempt of the King, Constitution or Government’; and banned unauthorised public meetings of over 50 persons.
Detailed explanation-4: -The English Combination Acts forbade workers to organize for the purpose of obtaining higher wages or controlling work-place conditions. The acts were repealed in 1824 as the result of a campaign led by the radical London tailor and political agitator Francis Place and the radical member of Parliament (MP) Joseph Hume.
Detailed explanation-5: -Combination Acts, British acts of 1799 and 1800 that made trade unionism illegal.