Chartism Flashcards

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Friedrich Engels

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‘In Chartism it is the whole working class which rises up against the Bourgeois’

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Malcolm Chase

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Chartism was Britain’s Civil Rights Movement

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Why is Chartism different?

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National Movement- helped by the media
Industrial Workers
Petitioning- used at a massive level
Political campaigning- the crucial difference, highly organised, try to use new franchised members for change

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The People’s Charter 1838

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  1. Universal Manhood Suffrage
  2. Secret Ballot
  3. Annual Parliaments
  4. Constituencies
  5. Payment of MPs
  6. Abolish Poverty Qualification for MPs
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Who was a Chartist?

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You didn’t have to be a member, you could just be involved in a petition
National Charter Association formed in 1840 and had around 50,000 people
BUT people had different aims and difficult to form a very clear movement

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Methods

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Petitions 
Canvassing
Speeches
Mass Meetings
Local Politics
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Moral Force and Physical Force

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Moral Force- public meetings, petitions, education

Physical Force- direct action, advocated violence

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1839 Petition

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1.2 million signatures 
National Chartism Association Divided
Wales: uprising by ironworkers
Birmingham: BullRing riots
100s of chartist leaders arrested
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1842 Petition

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3.3 million signatures 
Rejected in House of Commons
Mass Unrest
-wave of strikes- Midlands, Yorkshire, Cheshire
-Chartist Leaders Imprisoned
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1848 Petition

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Revolutions across Europe
10 April 1848- Chartist Convention
6 mill signatures- many fake

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A Cultural and Social Movement

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Printed Press
Poetry
Chartist Sunday School
Chartist Co-Operative Stores

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Chartist Newspapers

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The Northern Star Newspaper- 1839 50,000 circulation, by 1851 weekly circulation fell to 1,200
The ‘Chartist Circular Newspaper’- weekly circulation- 22,500, closed 1842

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Success?

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Didn’t meet its 6 aims
Movement officially ended in 1858 but probably ended in 1848
They gained MPs
Currently, the only aims that haven’t been met is annual parliaments
First National Movement

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