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How Did Poverty Change Throughout The 1700s

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Poverty and malnutrition goes way back throughout the 1700s were it all started to become popular and where it was considered to create problems onto the world. Many families struggled to pay for their daily bread and most lived below the ‘breadline’ in hopeless conditions. The 1700s became more attracted to Illnesses, accidents and old age this prevented people from working and living a normal proper lifestyle, again followed in poverty and often impoverishment, due to this conditions many weren't able to work, for most it was due to their backgrounds history placing them as the lower class in society. From the 1720s, workhouses were set up by local communities to house and help the low income environments. Many homes for the poor provided
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