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Article 30 The Revision of Corn Laws, in 1815, expelled any corn from other countries to be imported. In Britain, they raised the prices of corn in order to help out their economy. Though many urban laborers protested for their economy remained unstable due to unemployment and lost much of their earnings on food to survive. It then made many farmers to difficult to produce their individual food source. As the laborer’s gathered at Saint Peter’s Fields to protest, the magistrates call the authorities that lead to a bloody massacre known as the Battle of Peterloo. The corn laws indeed caused much anxiety to their economy __ A History of Western Society. __ Chapter 23, page 773