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How Life Changed In The 1750s To 1900s

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How life changed in the 1750s to 1900s There were many important changes in people’s lives. Some of the important changes were things like houses to things like public health. Many improvement and events happened which effected our life today. Some of these changes had a big impact on the way people lived. For example in 1750 my graph shows life was a very lonely place with only a population of 1.1 million people in Britain also with only a few schools to provide education. They weren’t very aware that germs spread so lots of diseases were around at that time. With just a simple life at home they had most grown food but that was alright with 80% of Britain’s populations worked on farms providing meat and veg to the people. Slow travel was an issue to the people who could afford it. Because of the low amount of children being taught this had an effect on the voting because most were rich men so they have a say in things but this was only 5% of the Britain’s people. But without an education it’s going to be tough to find a job but if you learn than your most likely to get a well-paid job and to vote as you will get older. …show more content…

Travel was a lot faster with only 6 hours from London to Manchester. But there was more people voting because of the massive increase in the population from only 1.1 million in 1700s it grew by massively up to 20 million. Also life at home was more enjoyable with larger amounts of space but more crowded. With the public crowds becoming larger vaccines for some diseases were being cured like small pox, this was a cause for a larger population. But at this time most middle and upper class boys went to school so they could probably vote when they are old enough. But there was decreases of the workers on farmers down to 60 % so a decrease of 20% over 100

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