Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Social Protest
- Growing proletariat—people w/o access to property
- Pop. growth/inflation—had to sell property
- Became manufacturers
- Became paid laborers
- Cities became infested w/beggars and wandering poor
- What did the poor protest?
- Demanded protection from poverty/prop. loss
- Effects of social protests:
- Social tension
- United peasants through songs/common cause
- Ideas of equality
- Witchcraft persecution—17th century
- Europe/New England
- Method of blaming the poor
- Conflict about family/role of women