Consequences of Reform 1832-70 Flashcards

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1832: disenfranchised

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56 boroughs, further 30 lost an MP

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1832: boroughs created

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42 new, including industrial towns such as Manchester, Leeds, Birmingham

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1832: middle class MPs and why

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14/103 cabinet members 1830-66 middle class, no salary and full-time nature

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1832: electorate size increase

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366 000 to 650 000

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1832: electorate %

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18%

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1832: qualification reason

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Whigs didn’t conceal was to exclude lower classes

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1832: contested seats

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30% before 1832 to 50% after

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1832: middle class local govt involved

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Municipal Corporations Act 1835

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1832: change in politicians

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Start of party politics, vote for what party, not individual wants

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1832: decline of Tories

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Peel split Tories by repealing 1846 Corn Law, main internal opponent was Disraeli

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1832: LWMA

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London Working Men’s Association, 1836, Williams Lovett

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1832: Chartists aims

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Universal suffrage men over 21
Secret ballots
Annual Parliaments
1837 People’s Charter

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1832: Chartist Petitions

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1839- rejected 235 to 46, 6000 troops nkrth
1842
1848- 5.7 million (2 million real) 150 000 special constables

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1832: Chartist Violence

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1839 Newport Rising: armed ironworkers and miners, 20 Chartists killed, 50 wounded
1842 Plug Riots: following 2nd petition, 15 English Welsh/8 Scottish

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1867: disenfranchised

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7 completely disenfranchised

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1867: votes added to franchise

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almost 1 million new, more votes=more representation

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1867: seats removed

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45 seats taken from boroughs with fewer than 10 000 people

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1867: electorate fraction

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1/3 all adult males

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1867: electorate increase

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650 000 to 2.46 million

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1867: electorate included

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working class

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1867: Gladstone

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Toured country giving speeches as parties realised the importance of campaigning for votes

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1867: politicians diversity

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More diverse electorate= more diverse representatives

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1832: campaigning for 1867

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National Reform Union 1864: respectable lobby group, male ratepayers
Reform League 1865: assertive but respectable demonstrations, universal male suffrage

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Factors

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Representation
Electorate
Changes to politicians
Growing Agitation