Of all the legislation that the British parliament passed concerning social change and reform in the early 19th century, few Acts aroused such passionate hostility as did the Poor Law Amendment of 1834—or as it quickly became known the New Poor Law. At a single blow, the Act ousted more than two hundred years or tradition in the form of the Elizabethan Poor Law, and introduced an entirely new national poor relief policy that sought to find a final solution to the problem of pauperism.