Radical reformers knowledge organiser Flashcards
…’s threshing machine in …
Andrew Meikle
1784
Factory Age = industrial output increased … by …
15 fold
1801
Manchester had pop. … by … = known as …
75,000
1801
Cottonopolis
(early 1800s) cotton = … all B. exports
70%
(Old Corruption) Cornwall = pop. … & … MPs
300,000
42
rotten boroughs e.g. … felt into sea
Old Dunwich
(Old Corruption) only … adult pop. enfranchised
~3%
no uniformity between boroughs e.g. (4)
Scot & Lot
Potwalloper
Open
Corporation
cost … to contest to become MP
£20,000
French Rev.
1789
Joseph … known as …, inspired counter-revolutionary attack by … mob in …
Priestley
Gunpowder Joe
Church & King
Apr. 1791
Dr Richard … praised F. Rev. in his … & ignited pamphlet war
Price
‘A Discourse on the love of our country Sermon’
Edmund … MP with … Party, wrote …, & referenced swinish multitudes, pamphlet sold … copies
Burke
Whig
‘Reflections on the Revolution in France 1790’
17,500
Thomas … wrote … = sold … copies (inspired American Declaration of Independence … with his …)
Paine
The Rights of Man (1791)
200,000
1776
‘Common Sense’
Sheffield Corresponding Society established in … & had … members (largest) -> in … …. Sheffielders signed petition for reform
Dec. 1791
2,000
1793
10,000
London Corresponding Society established … by …
1792
Thomas Hardy
National Convention in … held in …
1792
Edinburgh
Third British Convention in … -> … & … … transportation for sedition
1793
Gerrald Maragot
Thomas Muir
14 years
Thomas … published … periodical, arrested & imprisoned in … due to suspension of … & for selling seditious publications in …
Spence
Pigs’ Meat
May 1794
habeas corpus
1801
William … established Political Register in …, circulation of … by …, arrested in … for …
Cobbett
1802
4,000
1806
1819
2 years
loyalist backlash - Loyalist Associations???, … local branches by …
check notes
2,000
1793
(…’s Reign of Terror) … authorised spies, censorship & infiltration of radical groups
William Pitt
Royal Proclamation against Seditious Writings
habeas corpus suspended …
May 1794 - July 1795
… = arrest individuals based on what they wrote
Treasonable Practices Act
… = notify for groups of over …
Seditious Meetings Act
50
… … = all printing presses had to be registered
Newspaper Publication Act
1798 CONFIRM
(after war in 1815) unemp. due to mechanisation e.g. … & …
cotton-gin
spinning jenny
Luddites suppressed after several executions due to … …
Frame Breaking Act & Malicious Damage Act
1813
(after war) demobilisation of … soldiers & sailors
300,000
(after war) bad harvests in …
1816 & 1817
Corn Law … banned import foreign corn
1815
… formed Hampden Club in …, toured country …
Major John Cartwright
1811
1812-15
… Hampden Clubs in Lancashire alone by …
40
1817
condensed Political Register known as …, cost …, sold … copies in …
Two-Penny Trash
2d
200,000
2 months
(after war) mass public meetings pioneered by …
Henry Orator Hunt
Spa Fields meeting 1 … = … refused to see Hunt & accept his petition
Nov 1816
George IV
Spa Fields 2nd meeting … = … people (largest gathering in London) & … rioted & looted
2nd Dec 1816
10,000
Spenceans
gov. response to Spa Fields Meeting (4 things)
suspended habeas corpus
Gagging Acts (1817)
Treason Acts (1817)
Seditious Meetings Act (1817)
… established the … = spies & informers
Lord Liverpool
Committee of Secrecy
Pentridge Uprising … = … spy & agent provocateur -> … armed men set off to march on … led by …, leaders beheaded & … transported
1817
Oliver
200
Nottingham
Jeremiah Brandeth
30
St Peter’s Fields Meeting … = … men, women & children, … killed & … injured
1819
100,000
11
400
(consequence of Peterloo Massacre) … = successfully repressed radical activity for a decade
Six Acts
1819
(after Peterloo Massacre) Percy Bysshe Shelley wrote …, William … wrote …
The Masque of Anarchy
Hone
The Political House that Jack Built 1819
