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Domestic tensions ran high at the start of the decade, with the Peterloo Massacre ( 1819 ), the Cato Street Conspiracy ( 1820 ), and the Radical War ( 1820 ) in Scotland.

However, by the end of the 1820s, many repressive laws were repealed.

In 1822, Britain repealed the death penalty for over 100 crimes, and punishments such as drawing and quartering and flagellation fell out of use.

Seditious Meetings Prevention Act ( barring large assemblies ) and the Combination Act ( banning trade unions ) were repealed in 1824.

The Catholic Relief Act by Parliament of the United Kingdom granted a substantial measure of Catholic Emancipation in Britain and Ireland.