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The expression "Corn Laws" defines a sequence of measures that imposed taxes on the importation of rural products. These laws came into force from 1815 to 1846 in the United Kingdom. The Corn laws were an instrument of power of the British aristocracy. Their abolition marks the passage from a feudal economic government to an industrial economic government.
The expression "Peterloo massacres" indicates the fight between cavalry and population in Manchester revolt on 16th August of 1819. During a meeting convened to ask the electoral reform to the British parliament, a crowd of 60.000 people moved away by cavalry that caused dead and a lot of injured.
Quakers are members of the Religious Society of Friends, also called the Friends' Church. Quakers' central doctrine is the priesthood of all believers. In England in the late 1640s a young man, George Fox, became convinced that it was possible to have a direct experience of Christ without clergy. He travelled around England, preaching. His central teaching was that "Christ has come to teach his people himself". Quakers were persecuted in England with the Quaker Act 1662 and the Conventicler Act 1664. This was stopped with the Act of Toleration in 1689. Some Friends emigrated to America. Some Quakers were persecuted there but they were tolerated in other places. Today Kenya is the country with the most Quakers. Other countries with over 1,000 Quakers are Burundi, Bolivia, Canada, Ireland, Indonesia, Jamaica, United Kingdom and the United States. In our days the total number of Quakers is around 360,000.