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
Rural Police Act … - own police force for counties & boroughs
1839
Newport Uprising … - local gov ordered to be firm with Chartists (add info), criticised for slow response
1839
Plug Plot riots … - police & army go to trouble spots e.g. Yorkshire in …, … arrested & leaders sent to … for …
1842
1839
100s
Australia
7 years
1839-40 … Chartist leaders arrested
500
development of the electric telegraph …
1840s
Kennington Common …
1848
waves of railway mania … and … led to creation of network covering … by …
1836-38
1844-46
5,000
1850
Bull Ring riots … = authorities able to respond v quickly, sent … Met Police Officers to … in a few hours
1839
60
Birmingham
… Major General Sir … placed in charge of … troops in … counties in Northern District (fact check)
??
Charles Napier
4,000
11
Major General Napier = member of …, divided force into 3 by industrial centres, largest division … men in …
Bath Working Men’s Association
2,800
South Lancashire
National Convention …
1839
Feargus O’Connor formed … in … -> established … branches & … paying members
National Chartist Association (NCA)
??
400
more than 70,000
O’Connor newspaper = …
Northern Star
O’Connor’s ‘Land Plan’ = only … families ever settled under scheme, only … remained in possession of land by …
250
46
1851
… = education & moral force, wrote … and formed …
William Lovett
‘Chartism: a new organisation for the people’ 1839
National Association Promoting the Political and Social Improvement of the People
… string of good harvests & revival in trade
1842
… introduced reforms - Factory Act … improved previous legislation & placed limitations on working hours, Poor Law Act … repealed Poor Law Commission & Corn Laws repealed …
Sir Robert Peel
1844
1847
1846
women = … of signatures on … petition & initially involved in fundraising activities e.g. …
1/3
1839
Chartist Sunday Schools, making banners & leaflets
Chartists involved in unions e.g. …
General Tailors’ Trade Protection Society
Miners’ Association of GB
I (MAGBI)
National Chartist Convention (1839) = … out of … didn’t list lack of the vote as a grievance
21
23
London Working Men’s Association (4 things)
founded by Lovett
focused on skilled workers
emphasis on education, self-improvement
criticised for being too moderate
Birmingham Political Union (3 things)
formed by Thomas Attwood, part of Great Reform Act
relaunched in 1837 because of economic depression
support from wc due to radicalism
Great Northern Union
founded by Feargus O’Connor in 1835, great orator who travelled the north of England & drummed up radical support
in 1837 started ‘Northern Star’ = most popular provincial newspaper in country
formation of Chartism: meeting in … in … of … radicals that LMWA & BPU allied behind …
Glasgow
1838
over 200,000
People’s Charter
National Convention …, Chartist Petition … signatures
1839
1.3mil
gov. rejected People’s Charter in … by …, Convention dissolved …
July 1839
235 votes to 46
Sep 1839
Newport Rising … = … miners & ironworkers, authorities shot Chartists & … died
1839
10,000
22
Second Chartist Petition … collected … signatures = … of adult pop.
1842
3mil
1/3
Third Chartist Petition … -> meeting at Kennington Commmon, only … out of planned … showed, & parliamentary committee declared … of … signatures genuine
1848
25,000
200,000
less than 2mil
5mil
