6 Acts 1819

• Series of 6 acts preventing freedom of speech
• Aim to control the poorer people to prevent a French revolution in Britain
• Made trade unions illegal so they had fewer rights
• Workers couldn’t work with another to get more wages or fewer hour
• Strict laws if rules were broken, face fines or 2-3 months imprisonment
• Taken back in 1824 due to strikes
• Training prevention Act: prohibited training the use of weapons to prevent violence
• The seizure of arms act: gave JPs and magistrates the rights to seize weapons found during home searches
• Seditious Meetings Act:
• The Blasphemous and Seditious Libels Act
• The Misdemeanours Act
• The Newspapers Stamp Duties Act