Discuss the correlation of the Corn Laws, Irish Hunger, and the revocation of the Corn Laws.
The Corn Laws were a number of laws that imposed tariffs on imported grain from 1815 to 1845, in Great Britain. Their purpose was to protect farm owners from the competition of cereal prices coming from Great Britain. At the time, Great Britain was the most evolute country and the only products that were considered a concern, were the ones from other countries.
The debate for the Corn Laws involved landowners and, industrialists and workers. The landowners benefit from the system adopted after Napoleon's wars while industrialists and workers believed that lowering the price of cereal was necessary in order to lower salary and increase the profit.…show more content… Favorable to the Corn Laws, were some aspects. For example, the Great Britain economy depended in agriculture. If the landowners didn't receive the right price for their crops, they were likely to fail, with a consequence of economic depression and famine. Moreover, wars with France showed how dangerous it was to depend on other couldn't untitled for food. In conclusion, landowners could invest their profit in their lands, and in a long period this could have been profitable for prices reduction.
Unfavorable to the Corn Laws, were the opinion from industrials and workers, which sustained that the price of the bread would have caused high salaries and lower industrial profits to reinvest, high prices for finished products, and unemployment. These laws caused the raise of the grain prices, and this is was seen from industrials and workers, a way to enrich landowners under their own pay. They were indeed, making landowners rich. These Corn Laws moreover caused competition between nations and reactions against English…show more content… Year after year, all the crops failed, and the population had no longer potato that could allow them to survive. The Irish Famine was not the first famine the population was confronted with, but perhaps was the most harsh one, followed by more than a million deaths and another million people who fled overseas.
There were only two possibilities left: stop the grain exportation from Ireland, or import food in Ireland, difficult solution because of the politics of the Corn Laws. That is when Robert Peel decided do speed the abolition of the Corn Laws. In 1845, 100,000 sterlings where spent in order to buy cereals from the United States, and stabilize the prices in Ireland. Afterwards, commissions were instituted for food distribution, made difficult by the geographic structure, the dispersion of the population, loss of infrastructures and disorganization in the relief committees gestion.
In 1846, the Irish population is hit by a following of fevers, who scared the population and caused numerous deaths. In the same year, Peel abolished the Corn Laws, and made possible the importation from other