6.3.3

Long Term Consequences

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Long term consequences of the Peasants Revolt

The Peasants Revolt led to the end of Poll Tax, peasants becoming villeins, parliamentary control of wages and it inspired later rebellions. Wat Tyler also became a cultural hero.

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Poll Tax stopped

  • Poll Tax was stopped and never repeated again until 1990 (it was renamed as Council Tax in 1993).
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Villeins banned

  • 50 years after the Revolt, making peasants into villeins was banned.
  • Peasants were free to now love and work where they wanted.
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Wage control stopped

  • Parliament stopped trying to control wages, so peasants' wages slowly increased over time by around 40%.
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Inspiration

  • The Revolt inspired later rebellions over the next few centuries, where the peasants demanded more freedoms and rights.
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Wat Tyler

  • Wat Tyler became a hero, remembered in many stories, poems and plays.
  • For example, he was referenced in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, Elizabethan plays and the writings on the American War of Independence.

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1The Medieval World: 450-1450 AD

1.1Anglo-Saxon England

1.2The Contest for the English Throne

1.3Conquering the Holy Land, 10-96-1396 AD

1.4King John

1.5The Magna Carta & Parliament

1.6The Black Death

2Worldviews

3The Empire of Mali

4The Renaissance & Reformations, 1500-1598 AD

5The British Empire, 1583-1960 AD

6The Peasants' Revolt

7Religion in the Middle Ages

8Slavery, 1619-1833 AD

9The English Civil War, 1642-1660

10The Industrial Revolution, 1750-1840

11US Independence, 1775-1783

12The French Revolution, 1789-1815

13The British Empire, 1857–1930

14Suffrage

15World War 1, 1914-1918

16The Inter-War Years, 1919-1939

17World War 2, 1939-1945

18The Cold War, 1947-1962

19Civil Rights in the USA, 1954-1975

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