Chartist knowledge organiser Flashcards
Great Reform Act …
1832
GRA created … new constituencies in …
67
industrial towns
GRA = … of total pop. registered to vote, compared to … in …
5.8%
17%
Baden, Germany
GRA = … property qualification & no …
£10
secret ballot
William … and … - largely wc, established … to pursue further political reform
Lovett
London Working Men’s Association (LWMA)
1936
Thomas … and … - established … to campaign for wc suffrage, argued GRA ‘betrayal’
Attwood
Birmingham Political Union (BPU)
1829
Feargus … and … - wc organisation in North campaigning for …
O’Connor
Great Northern Union
‘Five Cardinal Points of Radicalism’
People’s Charter demanded: (6 things)
universal manhood suffrage
secret ballot
annual parliaments
equal electoral districts
abolition of property qualifications for MPs
payment for MPs
trade depression in … & poor harvests
1837
Newport Rising … = … miners & ironworkers marched from tows and villages in South Wales to …
1839
nearly 10,000
Newport in Monmouthshire
men, women & children worked … shifts during 1820s -> … formed across …
15/16
Ten Hour movement & Short Time Committees
Lancashire & Yorkshire
Factory Act … prevented children under … being employed
1833
9
Factory Act limited working hours of children aged … to …, adults still required to work …
9-18
12 hours
5:40am - 8:30pm
Anti-Poor Law campaign led by Chartists in …
1834
… by Henry … priced at penny, sold … copies a week, readership of … a week in …
Poor Man’s Guardian
Hetherington
15,000
~160,000
1838
(radical press) … imprisoned twice but kept publishing, joined by … established as foremost theorist of wc radicalism
Hetherington
James ‘Bronterre’ O’Brien
in … tax lowered so newspapers sold for …
1836
1.5d
Metropolitan Police Act … - … men
1829
1,000