Poverty in the 19th century countryside led to unrest and the Swing Riots across Britain and the Tolpuddle Martyrs led to the formation of the first union . In the cities the Peterloo Massacre led to some reforms . Frederich Engels and Karl Marx amassed data and statistics in Manchester expecting the working people to rise up . They did not in part due to local government and the civic responsibilities that lifted the poor out of chronic poverty . Rising industrial powers in Europe and America caused another economic depression in the 1870s led to another wave of emigration
Peterloo Massacre
Peterloo Massacre
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