What were some of the effects of the 1601 Elizabethan Poor Law?

Question

please put it simple as possible. no long information websites. thank you!

Answer 1

It was to provide a way for the poor to be maintained and not starve to death as many had after the dissolution of the monasteries during the reign of Elizabeth's father, King Henry VIII. This was the Renaissance version of the modern welfare system and it was used for centuries and improved over the years. It also eventually led to the formation of workhouses and other maintenance for the poor and disabled.



Main points of the 1601 Act

To board out (making a payment to families willing to accept them) those young children who were orphaned or whose parents could not maintain them,

To provide materials to "set the poor on work"

To offer relief to people who were unable to work — mainly those who were "lame, impotent, old, blind", and

"The putting out of children to be apprentices.".

Answer 2

Poor Law 1601

Answer 3

This era, the Elizabethan, was as an age of exploration. The British had a great intreset in getting to know the new world, which is the united states now, so left England to adventure and establish colonies, to figure a new way of living. Watch "Elizabeth the Golden Age" and you will see the regulations and laws of Britain back then were very humanistic .

Answer 4

The poor house and work houses.

Answer 5

poverty and famine