2023 - Chartism Most Significant Campaign

Question 1

When did the Chartists present their 2nd petition to Parliament? How many Signatures did it have?

Answer 1

April 1842
3.3 million signatures

Question 2

How manny members did the National Chartist Association have by 1842?

Answer 2

70,000

Question 3

How many branches did the complete suffrage union have by April 1842?

Answer 3

50

Question 4

When were the Plug Riots? Where did they affect?

Answer 4

1842
Staffordshire, Lancashire, Cheshire, Yorkshire

Question 5

How many workers on strike in the Plug riots?

Answer 5

500,000

Question 6

When did Disraeli present his reform bills to cabinet?

Answer 6

Between Feb 1867 and Aug 1867

Question 7

How many people resigned over Disraeli’s radicalism?

Answer 7

3 MPs

Question 8

When did Gladstone argue that it was a “scandal” that only what proportion of working men had the vote?

Answer 8

1864
1/10 men

Question 9

Who was John Bright? How many people were at the event he spoke at in Brookfields?

Answer 9

MP for Birmingham
150,000-200,000

Question 10

When did Richard Cobden become leader of the Anti Corn Law League?
When did he make speeches?

Answer 10

1839
1858

Question 11

When were the Reform League created? What did they want?

Answer 11

23 Feb 1865
Universal Male Suffrage and a secret ballot

Question 12

When were The Hyde Park riots?
How many protested?

Answer 12

23 July 1866
200,000 protestors (stopped with military action)