radical reformers - from essays

Question 1

Dr Richard Price = … preached sermon entitled … praising French Rev & arguing B had right to choose gov

Answer 1

1789
‘A Discourse on the Love of our Country’

Question 2

poets e.g. … & …

Answer 2

Samuel Coleridge
William Wordsworth

Question 3

Thomas Paine wrote … … = … copies sold in first year

Answer 3

‘The Rights of Man’
1791
200,000

Question 4

end of war … = rapid collapse exports e.g. … & unemp rose rapidly, worsened by sudden demobilisation … soldiers & sailors

Answer 4

1815
textiles & iron
300,000

Question 5

bad harvests …

Answer 5

1816 & 1817

Question 6

right to vote established during reign of … in … giving vote to freeholders only

Answer 6

Henry VI
1430

Question 7

estimated (… out of …) = … adult pop could vote in 1831

Answer 7

500,000
24mil
~3%

Question 8

newly populated areas e.g. … = no representation in parliament

Answer 8

Manchester, Bolton, Leeds

Question 9

Old Corruption - … MPs sent from boroughs in Cornwall (pop …), only … from Lancashire (pop …)

Answer 9

42
300,000
14
1.3mil

Question 10

… = one of many leaders who established Corresponding Societies

Answer 10

Thomas Hardy

Question 11

Major John Cartwright toured country … visiting discontented ‘Luddite’ counties in north & in many e.g. … helped establish Hampden Clubs

Answer 11

1812-15
Leicester, Liverpool, Manchester, Sheffield, Nottingham

Question 12

by … Hampden Clubs present in most industrial towns & by … … in Lancashire alone

Answer 12

1815
1817
40

Question 13

William Cobbett established radical paper … in …

Answer 13

‘Political Register’
1802

Question 14

… Cobbett exploited loophole in stamp duty & produced condensed … sold for … = sold … copies in …

Answer 14

1816
‘Two-Penny Trash’
2d
200,000
2 months

Question 15

… to … habeas corpus suspended allowing to imprison suspected radicals without trial e.g. …

Answer 15

May 1794
July 1795
Thomas Spence

Question 16

… Treasonable Practices Act & Seditious Meetings Act = enabled to arrest based on what said/wrote & restricted meetings of more than … people

Answer 16

1795
50

Question 17

… introduction of ‘stamp duty’ on newspapers

Answer 17

1802

Question 18

… Gagging Acts = collection legislative measures reintroduced Seditious Meetings Act (punishable by death pen) & banned num organisations

Answer 18

1817

Question 19

… authorities broke up Nat Convention in … -> … (along with others) arrested & sentenced to …

Answer 19

1793
Edinburgh
Thomas Muir
14 years transportation to Botany Bay, Australia

Question 20

… Committee of Secrecy = … established network spies & agent provocateurs

Answer 20

1817
Lord Liverpool

Question 21

… encouraged Pentridge Uprising … -> public hanging & beheading radical leaders & transportation … others

Answer 21

Oliver
1817
30

Question 22

St Peter’s Fields Meeting … = … killed & … injured

Answer 22

1819
11
400

Question 23

Cobbett’s ‘Political Register’ had circulation of … by …

Answer 23

4,000/week
1806

Question 24

Pentridge Uprising … men armed with pikes, forks & few guns marched on …

Answer 24

~200
Nottingham

Question 25

… attended St Peter’s Fields Meeting …

Answer 25

~100,000
1819

Question 26

first Corresponding Society established in … in …

Answer 26

Sheffield
1791

Question 27

(France) execution of … in …

Answer 27

Louis XIV
1793

Question 28

… local ‘Association Movement’ branches by …

Answer 28

over 2,000
end of 1793

Question 29

Spa Fields Meeting … … people in crowd, some rioting & broke into gun shops -> … introduced

Answer 29

1816
over 10,000
habeas corpus suspended & Gagging Acts (1817)

Question 30

radicals e.g. … & .. more in-tune with mc opinion so advocated only moderate reform & constitutional methods

Answer 30

Francis Place
Jeremy Bentham

Question 31

… & … called for universal manhood suffrage, … called for universal suffrage

Answer 31

Cobbett
Cartwright
Hunt

Question 32

… advocated use armed force

Answer 32

Thomas Spence & Spencean Philanthropic Society

Question 33

aftermath of Peterloo -> … = paranoid legal crackdown on freedoms of public & press

Answer 33

Six Acts (1819)

Question 34

(anger over Peterloo massacre) Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poem … encouraged reformers to …

Answer 34

‘The Masque of Anarchy’
‘rise like lions after slumber’

Question 35

(anger over Peterloo Massacre) William Hones’ satirical poem … with cartoon illustrations wildly popular

Answer 35

‘The Political House that Jack Built’

Question 36

Royal Proclamation against Seditious Writings issued …

Answer 36

1792

Question 37

radical leaders relied heavily on econ distress groups e.g. …

Answer 37

handloom weavers & framework knitters

Question 38

(about hunger politics) Cobbett … = …

Answer 38

1820
‘I defy you to agitate a man on a full stomach’

Question 39

(about hunger politics) Thomas Wooler … = … -> ceased publication of journal ‘Black Dwarf’ in …

Answer 39

1824
‘[there is] no public devotedly attached to the cause of parliamentary reform’
1824

Question 40

French Rev …

Answer 40

1789

Question 41

Cobbett not willing to work within movement unless it was … = Francis Place called Cobbett … & Hunt …

Answer 41

‘subdued to his influence’
‘unprincipled, cowardly, bully’
‘impudent & vulgar’

Question 42

Hanpden Club Convention … did more to expose divisions within movement than promote unity

Answer 42

1817