QUESTIONS FOR REVIEW
1. What social changes accompanied the industrial expansion of England? 2. What was the "apprentice system"? 3. Under what influences did Lord Ashley pass his childhood and youth? 4. How was the Factory Law of 1833 secured, and what did it require? 5. How did Lord Ashley prepare for a new Factory Act? 6. What opposition did he meet from the Anti-Corn Law workers? 7. How was the passage of the "Ten-Hours Bill" in 1847 received? 8. What conditions were revealed by the report on mines and collieries? 9. Describe the events which led to the passage of Ashley's bill? 10. What factory laws have since been enacted? 11. What various kinds of opposition did Shaftesbury meet in his efforts for reform? 12. To what other needy causes did he devote the remaining years of his life?