The English Poor Law Act of 1834
A) established workhouses where jobless poor people were forced to live.
B) placed a tax rate of 50 percent on the wealthy and redistributed that money to the poor.
C) never got out of parliament.
D) reclassified people with less than one hundred pounds annual income as poor.
E) forced the poor into the British navy.
A
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