What were the Corn Laws, and what led to their repeal?
What will be an ideal response?
Answers will vary. Students should express an understanding that the Corn Laws made the import of cheap grain ("corn" in British English) into Great Britain virtually impossible, and were originally designed to reduce British dependence on foreign food, but ended up being devastating for the poor. Protests and violence culminated first in the Peterloo Massacre, which was the violent quelling of protests against the laws. With an expanded Parliament in the 1830s, the repeal of the Corn Laws became possible, as the middle and lower classes were represented in government to a greater degree. However, the final nail in the coffin for the Corn Laws was the Irish Potato Famine, which was a catastrophe for the island that could have been prevented with the import of foreign grain.
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Frederick II of Hohenstaufen
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a. true b. false