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Economic Growth Of Elizabethan England Essay

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Ava Pappas
World History
Locklin P.4
3/15/18

What factors contributed to the economic growth of Elizabethan England?

Legistlative bills like the poor act and the trade of cloth contributed to the economic growth of Elizabethan England.

Blackwell, Amy Hackney. "Elizabethan England." Daily Life through History, ABC-CLIO, 2018, dailylife.abc-clio.com/Topics/Display/1834985?cid=41. Accessed 13 Mar. 2018.

This article was written by Amy Hackney Blackwell. She has a master's degree in early modern European history from Vanderbilt University and a law degree from University of Virginia School of Law. The intended audience is for students researching Elizabethan England and Queen Elizabeth I. This source is a web article published on abc-clio.com. We don’t know when this …show more content…

It is a poster made of paper with a black ink heading that says “The New Poor Law- With a description of the new workhouses. Look at the pictures- see.” Under the heading, there is an illustration that looks like a comic you would see in a newspaper with bright colors. The picture is of poor people in England being worked to death in terrible conditions. Men and women were working as peasants or slaves in the poster, it showed superior white men whipping the workers and hanging them as a punishment. The poster was created in England in 1834. The artifact says that there were many poor people in this era and the government didn't really care about their well being they just wanted a way to make money. This artifact relates to my question because the poor laws were a contribution to the economic growth of England by using the poor people as cheap laborers. The poster shows a new perspective to the poor laws because the laws say they were made to care for the health and well being of poor people, but they may have been putting the poor people to work in terrible conditions for government economic

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