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Radical reformers knowledge organiser Flashcards

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…’s threshing machine in …

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Andrew Meikle
1784

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Factory Age = industrial output increased … by …

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15 fold
1801

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Manchester had pop. … by … = known as …

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75,000
1801
Cottonopolis

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(early 1800s) cotton = … all B. exports

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70%

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(Old Corruption) Cornwall = pop. … & … MPs

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300,000
42

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Q

rotten boroughs e.g. … felt into sea

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Old Dunwich

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(Old Corruption) only … adult pop. enfranchised

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~3%

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no uniformity between boroughs e.g. (4)

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Scot & Lot
Potwalloper
Open
Corporation

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cost … to contest to become MP

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£20,000

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French Rev.

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1789

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Joseph … known as …, inspired counter-revolutionary attack by … mob in …

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Priestley
Gunpowder Joe
Church & King
Apr. 1791

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Dr Richard … praised F. Rev. in his … & ignited pamphlet war

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Price
‘A Discourse on the love of our country Sermon’

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Edmund … MP with … Party, wrote …, & referenced swinish multitudes, pamphlet sold … copies

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Burke
Whig
‘Reflections on the Revolution in France 1790’
17,500

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Thomas … wrote … = sold … copies (inspired American Declaration of Independence … with his …)

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Paine
The Rights of Man (1791)
200,000
1776
‘Common Sense’

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Sheffield Corresponding Society established in … & had … members (largest) -> in … …. Sheffielders signed petition for reform

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Dec. 1791
2,000
1793
10,000

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London Corresponding Society established … by …

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1792
Thomas Hardy

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National Convention in … held in …

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1792
Edinburgh

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Third British Convention in … -> … & … … transportation for sedition

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1793
Gerrald Maragot
Thomas Muir
14 years

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Thomas … published … periodical, arrested & imprisoned in … due to suspension of … & for selling seditious publications in …

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Spence
Pigs’ Meat
May 1794
habeas corpus
1801

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William … established Political Register in …, circulation of … by …, arrested in … for …

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Cobbett
1802
4,000
1806
1819
2 years

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loyalist backlash - Loyalist Associations???, … local branches by …

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check notes
2,000
1793

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(…’s Reign of Terror) … authorised spies, censorship & infiltration of radical groups

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William Pitt
Royal Proclamation against Seditious Writings

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habeas corpus suspended …

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May 1794 - July 1795

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… = arrest individuals based on what they wrote

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Treasonable Practices Act

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… = notify for groups of over …

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Seditious Meetings Act
50

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… … = all printing presses had to be registered

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Newspaper Publication Act
1798 CONFIRM

27
Q

(after war in 1815) unemp. due to mechanisation e.g. … & …

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cotton-gin
spinning jenny

28
Q

Luddites suppressed after several executions due to … …

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Frame Breaking Act & Malicious Damage Act
1813

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(after war) demobilisation of … soldiers & sailors

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300,000

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(after war) bad harvests in …

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1816 & 1817

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Corn Law … banned import foreign corn

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1815

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… formed Hampden Club in …, toured country …

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Major John Cartwright
1811
1812-15

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… Hampden Clubs in Lancashire alone by …

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40
1817

34
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condensed Political Register known as …, cost …, sold … copies in …

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Two-Penny Trash
2d
200,000
2 months

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Q

(after war) mass public meetings pioneered by …

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Henry Orator Hunt

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Spa Fields meeting 1 … = … refused to see Hunt & accept his petition

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Nov 1816
George IV

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Q

Spa Fields 2nd meeting … = … people (largest gathering in London) & … rioted & looted

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2nd Dec 1816
10,000
Spenceans

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gov. response to Spa Fields Meeting (4 things)

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suspended habeas corpus
Gagging Acts (1817)
Treason Acts (1817)
Seditious Meetings Act (1817)

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… established the … = spies & informers

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Lord Liverpool
Committee of Secrecy

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Pentridge Uprising … = … spy & agent provocateur -> … armed men set off to march on … led by …, leaders beheaded & … transported

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1817
Oliver
200
Nottingham
Jeremiah Brandeth
30

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St Peter’s Fields Meeting … = … men, women & children, … killed & … injured

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1819
100,000
11
400

42
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(consequence of Peterloo Massacre) … = successfully repressed radical activity for a decade

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Six Acts
1819

43
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(after Peterloo Massacre) Percy Bysshe Shelley wrote …, William … wrote …

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The Masque of Anarchy
Hone
The Political House that Jack Built 1819

A-level History - Protest, agitation, and parliamentary reform (3 decks)

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