Protest and Reform: Effects of 1832 Great Reform act Flashcards
Rep of Industrial cities - How many boroughs were disenfranchised and how many lost their MPs?
56 of the 2000 boroughs disenfranchised
30 lost their MPs
Rep of Industrial cities - How many new boroughs were created? who was eligible to be represented
42 new Boroughs
Those represented had to own or rent property worth £10/year
Rep of Industrial cities - How many new member constituencies were created?
2: for new industrial towns such as Birmingham and Manchester
Rep of Industrial cities - How many seats did Scotland and Ireland gain?
Scotland - 8
Ireland - 5
Rep of Industrial cities - How many people in Leeds actually qualified to vote?
5000 out of 125,000 population
Increased Electorate Size - by how much did the electorate size increase by?
Rose from 366,000 to 650,000
around 18% of the male population
Increased Electorate Size - what was the government’s true intention behind the 1832 act?
Stabilising threat of revolution not increasing representation. minimal appeasement policy.
Increased Electorate Size - what was the working classes’ magazine? and what was its famous statement?
‘Poor man’s Guardian’ - the mouthpiece of radicalism
“Millions will not stop at the shadows.”
Increased Electorate Size - what was the voting qualification in the new boroughs for renters?
£50 a year - genuine exclusion of most renters, including the middle class, a lot of whom rented their land for factories.
Two party System, Decline of Tories - what part of the 1832 act lead to need for political campaigns?
Requirement to register to vote.
Two party System, Decline of Tories - What groups emerged in order to encourage people to sign up to vote?
party activists and political clubs: e.g. the ‘Tory-learning Carlton Club’ and the ‘Whig-Sponsored Reform Club’
Two party System, Decline of Tories - what were the limitations still present in parliament?
Issue-based politics (what’s important in the moment)
MPs worked in local interest (Parochialism)
Two party System, Decline of Tories - between 1832-52 for how many years were the Tories in power?
less than 7 years
Two party System, Decline of Tories - When were the Whigs in power?
1835 to 1841
Two party System, Decline of Tories - What was Robert Peel doing during the Whig rule?
Reforming the Conservatives: made the Chartists almost redundant if he was to get into power.
Two party System, Decline of Tories - When was Robert Peel in power with the Conservatives?
1841 to 1846
Two party System, Decline of Tories - What was Robert Peel’s last action before he resigned?
1846 Repeal of the Corn Laws.
Because of support from the Whigs, Pressure from the Anti-Corn Law league, and the Irish Famine (1845-52).
Two party System, Decline of Tories - Peel’s actions split the Conservative party, who was Peel’s main opponent?
Benjamin Disraeli
Rise of the Chartists - What was the organisation that lead the Chartists before they were called the Chartists?
LWMA - London Working Men’s Association
Rise of the Chartists - Who lead the LWMA?
William Lovett - founded in 1838
Rise of the Chartists - When was the first ‘peoples Charter’ written?
1837 - drawn up by William Lovett
Rise of the Chartists - What were the first 3 demands of the peoples charter?
- Universal suffrage for all men over 21
- Secret Ballot (avoids lambing and cooping)
- Abolition of the property qualifications for MPs allowing everyone to stand
Rise of the Chartists - What were the next 3 demands of the peoples charter?
- Annual Parliaments regular representation of the constituents’ changing needs
- MP salary to make it a more focused upon profession
- Constituencies of equal size to deal with under-representation
Rise of the Chartists - The LWMA attracted men such as whom?
Thomas Attwood (Economist & MP) and Henry Hetherington (Author) (Middle Class spokespeople)
