When this city's growth was checked in the 18th century, Francis Egerton completed the Bridgewater Canal to connect it to the Worsley coal mines.
The Woolf Report suggested prison reforms after this city's Strangeways Prison endured a 25 day prison riot. William Philip Allen, Michael Larkin, and Michael O'Brien were nicknamed this city's "martyrs" after being executed for killing a police officer here. In 1817, this city was marched on by a group of weavers calling themselves the Blanketeers. When this city's growth was checked in the 18th century, Francis Egerton completed the Bridgewater Canal to connect it to the Worsley coal mines. This city became known as Cottonopolis because of its textile growth during the Industrial Revolution, and its working class was examined in a Frederich Engels text. One event near this city, built on the site of the Roman settlement of Macunium, was prompted by the speech of Henry Hunt and prompted the passage of the Six Acts. For 10 points, name this site of the Peterloo Massacre and second largest city in England.
The Woolf Report suggested prison reforms after this city's Strangeways Prison endured a 25 day prison riot.
Manchester