2023 - Chartism Most Significant Campaign Flashcards
When did the Chartists present their 2nd petition to Parliament? How many Signatures did it have?
April 1842
3.3 million signatures
How manny members did the National Chartist Association have by 1842?
70,000
How many branches did the complete suffrage union have by April 1842?
50
When were the Plug Riots? Where did they affect?
1842
Staffordshire, Lancashire, Cheshire, Yorkshire
How many workers on strike in the Plug riots?
500,000
When did Disraeli present his reform bills to cabinet?
Between Feb 1867 and Aug 1867
How many people resigned over Disraeli’s radicalism?
3 MPs
When did Gladstone argue that it was a “scandal” that only what proportion of working men had the vote?
1864
1/10 men
Who was John Bright? How many people were at the event he spoke at in Brookfields?
MP for Birmingham
150,000-200,000
When did Richard Cobden become leader of the Anti Corn Law League?
When did he make speeches?
1839
1858
When were the Reform League created? What did they want?
23 Feb 1865
Universal Male Suffrage and a secret ballot
When were The Hyde Park riots?
How many protested?
23 July 1866
200,000 protestors (stopped with military action)
