Poor Harvests c1790-1820

• Suffered many bad harvests
• Caused higher prices
• Less money for lower classes
• Manufacturing suffered
• Created national fear that a revolution would be formed like the French revolution which was created from a bad harvest
• Poorer people could no longer rely on bred, adding pressure to the government
• Struggled with a rising population and a returning army
• Made national debt worse as when they had access to trade they didn’t have anything to sell