political impacts

Question 1

rotten boroughs

Answer 1

• old constituencies had become scarcely populated
• old sarum had one land owner

Question 2

rapidly growing cities

Answer 2

• bham and manchester
• no MPs but huge populations
• lancashire in 1831 had 1.3 million people but only 14 MPs
• cornwall population of 300,000 but 42 MPs
• issues like this lead to movements like chartism

Question 3

groups

Answer 3

• london corresponding society
• sheffield society for constitutional information
• thomas paine “rights of man” 1791-92

Question 4

attitudes

Answer 4

-1789
- also in 1830 and 48
- communist manifesto 1848
- 1847 marx and engels form communist league with german revolutionaries living in london
- swing riots 1830-31
- luddites 1811-17

Question 5

political change

Answer 5

• great reform act 1832
• plug riots, newport rising
• chartism 1st petition in 1839 1.2 million signatures

Question 6

chartism

Answer 6

-first petition in 1839
-1.2 million signatures