parliamentary reform

Question 1

pre reformed system was corrupt and flawed

Answer 1

1780

Question 2

a young whig politician called Edmund Burke wrote “Reflections on the revolutions in France”

Answer 2

1790

Question 3

William Pitt tries to introduced parliamentary reform again but it is defeated

Answer 3

1785

Question 4

Thomas Paine publishes Rights of Man in response to Burke

and London Corresponding Society (LCS) created

Answer 4

1792

Question 5

start of the Napoleonic wars

Answer 5

1793

Question 6

“Two Acts” were past, Treasonable and Seditious Practices Act

Answer 6

1795

Question 7

End of Napoleonic wars and Passage of new Corn Laws

Answer 7

1815

Question 8

Radical press- William Cobbett began republishing Weekly Political Register

Answer 8

1816

Question 9

Peterloo massacre and Six Acts

Answer 9

1819

Question 10

Cato Street Conspiracy

Answer 10

1820

Question 11

The Whigs form a government led by Earl Grey, Swing Riots and Birmingham Political Union

Answer 11

1830

Question 12

Days of May

Answer 12

1832

Question 13

Municipal Corporations Act

Answer 13

1835

Question 14

Newport rising and Chartists’ 1st petition

Answer 14

1839

Question 15

Plug Riots, Mines Act, complete suffrage union and National Charter Association (70,000 members)

Answer 15

1842

Question 16

Companies Act, Railway Act and Factory Act

Answer 16

1844

Question 17

Repeal of the Corn Laws

Answer 17

1846

Question 18

Gladstone announces that members of the working class who had proven themselves should be able to vote

Answer 18

1864

Question 19

National Reform Union and Reform League

Answer 19

1864

Question 20

Hyde Park riots

Answer 20

1866