Consequences of Reform 1832-70

Question 1

1832: disenfranchised

Answer 1

56 boroughs, further 30 lost an MP

Question 2

1832: boroughs created

Answer 2

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

Question 3

1832: middle class MPs and why

Answer 3

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

Question 4

1832: electorate size increase

Answer 4

366 000 to 650 000

Question 5

1832: electorate %

Answer 5

18%

Question 6

1832: qualification reason

Answer 6

Whigs didn’t conceal was to exclude lower classes

Question 7

1832: contested seats

Answer 7

30% before 1832 to 50% after

Question 8

1832: middle class local govt involved

Answer 8

Municipal Corporations Act 1835

Question 9

1832: change in politicians

Answer 9

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

Question 10

1832: decline of Tories

Answer 10

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

Question 11

1832: LWMA

Answer 11

London Working Men’s Association, 1836, Williams Lovett

Question 12

1832: Chartists aims

Answer 12

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

Question 13

1832: Chartist Petitions

Answer 13

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

Question 14

1832: Chartist Violence

Answer 14

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

Question 15

1867: disenfranchised

Answer 15

7 completely disenfranchised

Question 16

1867: votes added to franchise

Answer 16

almost 1 million new, more votes=more representation

Question 17

1867: seats removed

Answer 17

45 seats taken from boroughs with fewer than 10 000 people

Question 18

1867: electorate fraction

Answer 18

1/3 all adult males

Question 19

1867: electorate increase

Answer 19

650 000 to 2.46 million

Question 20

1867: electorate included

Answer 20

working class

Question 21

1867: Gladstone

Answer 21

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

Question 22

1867: politicians diversity

Answer 22

More diverse electorate= more diverse representatives

Question 23

1832: campaigning for 1867

Answer 23

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

Question 24

Factors

Answer 24

Representation
Electorate
Changes to politicians
Growing Agitation