Chartist failure

Question 1

1st petition

Answer 1

1.2 million
235 to 46
many arrested
6000 troops sent north

Question 2

2nd petition

Answer 2

following economic recession

3.3 million

Question 3

2rd petition

Answer 3

5.7 million/ 2 million real

150 000 ‘special constables’ to keep peace

Question 4

why could govt. be violent?

Answer 4

Had resources

were seen to be protecting public from chartists, not attacking them

Question 5

newport rising

Answer 5

nov 1839
armed ironworkers and miners
working +living conditions
riot act read, 20 chartists killed, 50 wounded
leaders (e.g john frost transported)

Question 6

plug riots

Answer 6

1842
following second petition
500 000 workers striked
by sept, 15 english + welsh and 8 scottish counties affected
1000 chartists arrested despite not a ‘chartist protest’

Question 7

lull in protests

Answer 7

Aug 1842 following good harvest and govt. agreement cancelling wage reductions

Question 8

1832 reform act- why helped failure1

Answer 8

middle class had gained, threatened by O’Connor and physical force

Question 9

1819

Answer 9

Six Acts

Question 10

punishments

Answer 10

e.g 1834 Tolpuddle Martyrs transported

Question 11

Complete Suffrage Union

Answer 11

1842 Complete Suffrage Union, cooperation between Chartism and Anti Corn-Law League.
Joseph Sturge
Middle class dissenter and moral force chartist support
April >50 branches

Question 12

Types of chartism

Answer 12

Moral force- William Lovett , Physical force- Feargus O’Connor

Question 13

Land Plan

Answer 13

O’Connor
affordable housing for workers
failed and spread limited resources further