Consequences of Reform 1832-70 Flashcards
1832: disenfranchised
56 boroughs, further 30 lost an MP
1832: boroughs created
42 new, including industrial towns such as Manchester, Leeds, Birmingham
1832: middle class MPs and why
14/103 cabinet members 1830-66 middle class, no salary and full-time nature
1832: electorate size increase
366 000 to 650 000
1832: electorate %
18%
1832: qualification reason
Whigs didn’t conceal was to exclude lower classes
1832: contested seats
30% before 1832 to 50% after
1832: middle class local govt involved
Municipal Corporations Act 1835
1832: change in politicians
Start of party politics, vote for what party, not individual wants
1832: decline of Tories
Peel split Tories by repealing 1846 Corn Law, main internal opponent was Disraeli
1832: LWMA
London Working Men’s Association, 1836, Williams Lovett
1832: Chartists aims
Universal suffrage men over 21
Secret ballots
Annual Parliaments
1837 People’s Charter
1832: Chartist Petitions
1839- rejected 235 to 46, 6000 troops nkrth
1842
1848- 5.7 million (2 million real) 150 000 special constables
1832: Chartist Violence
1839 Newport Rising: armed ironworkers and miners, 20 Chartists killed, 50 wounded
1842 Plug Riots: following 2nd petition, 15 English Welsh/8 Scottish
1867: disenfranchised
7 completely disenfranchised