1830s

Question 1

Reform Bill introduced and defeated in Commons and parliament dissolved.
Whigs return after election; another Reform Bill introduced.
Reform Bill rejected by the Lords; serious rioting breaks out across country.
Government defeated over latest Reform Bill in Lords and resigns. Wellington fails to form new government, Grey returns on promise that the King will create sufficient new peers to get the Bill through the House of Lords
Parliamentary Reform Bill becomes law

Answer 1

1831
1831
1831
1832
1832

Question 2

Reform Bill

Answer 2

1832.
Increase in size of electorate, register of electors introduced (but excluded many voters as some didn’t bother to check and others wouldn’t pay registration fee), bribery and corruption continued through lack of secret ballot, polling day reduced from 15 days to 2, redistribution of seats to the Unrepresented North by abolishing most rotten boroughs but south still over represented and industrial north still under represented, and end of monopoly of political power of landed aristocracy (urban middle classes got share but women and wc men did not)

Question 3

Swing Riots Subdued

Answer 3

1831

Question 4

Whig government takes office under Lord Grey

Answer 4

1830