Impact on Parliament

• Laws were passed which showed changing attitudes & a demand for more civil rights:

  -Before 1832 only 5% of the population could vote but 1832 Great Reform Act gave vote to men who owned property or paid high rents

  -1867 and 1884 more working class men given vote

  -1829 Catholic Emancipation Act; Catholics were given almost all same civil rights as Protestants

  -1807 British Slave Trade was abolished

  -1833 Slavery was forbidden in British Empire