PROTEST (key Dates)

Question 1

Radical Reformers 1789

Answer 1

Govt. fear position isn’t permanent
Idea of the ‘people’s power’ - want voting rights

Question 2

Radical Reformers 1790

Answer 2

Burke- ‘Reflections on the war in France’

Question 3

Radical Reformers 1791-1792

Answer 3

Thomas Paine- ‘The rights of Man’

Question 4

Radical Reformers 1793

Answer 4

London Corresponding Society (shoemaker Thomas Hardy)

Question 5

Radical Reformers May 1794- July 1795

Answer 5

Govt. action = Suspending habeas corpus

Question 6

Radical Reformers 1794

Answer 6

Govt. action= 41 arrests, Hardy acquitted

Question 7

Radical Reformers 1795

Answer 7

Govt. action = Seditious Writings Act

Question 8

Radical Reformers GOVT ACTION

Answer 8

ADD DATES FOR meetings and practises

Question 9

Radical Reformers 1815

Answer 9

End of war with France
Luddism
Corn Laws
Radical press (William Corbett ‘weekly political register’)
political clubs ( Major John Cartwright ‘Hampden clubs)
public meetings ( Henry Hunt - MP)

Question 10

Radical Reformers Dec 1816

Answer 10

Spa Fields Meeting

Question 11

Radical Reformers June 1817

Answer 11

Pentridge Uprising

Question 12

Radical Reformers June 1817

Answer 12

Pentridge Uprising

Question 13

Radical Reformers August 1819

Answer 13

Peterloo (St. Petersfield, Manchester)

Question 14

Radical Reformers 1817

Answer 14

Govt. 6 Acts

Question 15

Chartists 1832

Answer 15

Disappoint of reform act

Question 16

Chartists 1835

Answer 16

Municipal corporations act

Question 17

Chartists (context) 1819

Answer 17

Stamp tax

Question 18

Chartists 1831-1836

Answer 18

London 740 on trial unstamped

Question 19

Chartists Henry hetherington

Answer 19

Poor mans guardian, 1p, 15,000 copies, arrested twice

Question 20

Chartists 1836

Answer 20

Whig govt lowered stamp tax

Question 21

Chartists 1837-1838

Answer 21

Anti Poor-Law Campaign

Question 22

Chartists May 1838

Answer 22

People’s charter published

Question 23

Chartists Feb 1839

Answer 23

National convention + moral vs physical debate

Question 24

Chartists July 1838

Answer 24

Birmingham riots

Question 25

Chartists 4th Nov 1839

Answer 25

Newport rising

Question 26

Chartists 1840

Answer 26

O’Connor establish NCA
Lovett new respectable approach

Question 27

Chartists 1842 NCA

Answer 27

50,000 members, 400 branches, widespread

Question 28

Chartists 1841

Answer 28

New conservative govt. - peel
Income + import tax
New poor law

Question 29

Chartists May 1842

Answer 29

Second petition rejected (3.3 mil)