18/9/24 Flashcards
What are 3 radical activity in 1815-1821?
- Peterloo massacre
- The Cato Street conspiracy
- Queen Caroline affair
Why did radicals not bring down government?
- They were divided
- Had no weapons
- Didn’t have a clear main objective
- The gov monitor them and stop before they begin anything
Where was Lord Liverpool during the radical revolution?
Paris
When was Liverpool appointed secretary of war?
1809
What was Lord Liverpools political view?
Tory
Who are the Tories?
Traditionally aristocratic families who support the monarchs and established institutions.
What were the Tories hostile to?
Reform
What did they believe in?
Maintaining the status quo and that people had a duty to obey the monarch.
Who are the whigs?
Traditionally aristocratic families and believed in constitutional monarchy, which monarchs power was curtailed by parliament.
What do the whigs believe in?
Believed political power should rest with the peoples representatives.
Why were the 6 acts created?
Due to the Peterloo massacre
What did the six acts try to clamp down on?
People trying to overthrow government
What were the 6 acts?
- The Training Prevention Act
- The Seizure of Arms Act
- The Seditious Meetings Act
- The Blasphemous and Seditious Libels Act
- The Misdemeanours Act
- The Newspaper Stamp Duties Act
What did the training prevention act contain?
military training of any sort was to be conducted only by municipal bodies and above.
What did the seizure of arms act contain?
gave local magistrates the powers, within the disturbed counties, to search any private property for weapons and seize them and arrest the owners.
What did The Seditious Meetings Act contain?
Required the permission of a sheriff or magistrate in order to convene any public meeting of more than 50 people if the subject of that meeting was concerned with “church or state” matters. Additional people could not attend such meetings unless they were inhabitants of the parish.
What did The Blasphemous and Seditious Libels Act contain?
Toughened the existing laws to provide for more punitive sentences for the authors of such writings.
What did The misdemeanours act contain?
Attempted to increase the speed of the administration of justice by reducing the opportunities for bail and allowing for speedier court processing.
What did The Newspaper Stamp Duties Act contain?
Extended and increased taxes to cover those publications which had escaped duty by publishing opinion and not news.
