15: Pressure for Change

Question 1

What events caused the Chartist movement and why?

Answer 1

Great Reform Act - No vote for the working class
Factory Act - No improvement to adult conditions
Poor Law Amendment Act - Imposition of the workhouse
Grand National Consolidated Trades Union - Frustration at its failure and the governments treatment of the Tolpuddle Martyrs
Bad harvests and economic slump

Question 2

What were the 6 points on the 1838 charter?

Answer 2

1. Vote for men over 21 who were sound of mind and weren’t in prison
2. Secret ballot
3. No property qualifications for MPs
4. Payment of MPs
5. Equal constituencies
6. Annual parliament

Question 3

When was the Chartist’s 1st petition and what was the outcome?

Answer 3

1839
Rejected by Whigs and Tories
Led to the Newport rising

Question 4

When was the Chartist’s 2nd petition and what was the outcome?

Answer 4

1842

Signed by 3 million yet still ridiculed and dismissed

Question 5

The formation of which radical group in 1840 marked the beginnings of a new era of Irish trouble?

Answer 5

Young Ireland

Question 6

Why was there increased interest in the Anti Poor Law League in 1837?

Answer 6

Recession

Question 7

Why was the Anti Corn Law League effective?

Answer 7

Steady income
Avoided strikes and violence
Good publicity campaign

Question 8

What forced Peel to repeal the Corn Laws?

Answer 8

Irish famine

Question 9

Give the names of 3 social reform campaigners at this time?

Answer 9

Chadwick
Earl of Shaftsbury
John Fielden