Reform growth after 1832

Question 1

Limit on franchise

Answer 1

counties owned land £10/year

rented land £50/year

Question 2

Palmerston

Answer 2

Died 1865

Question 3

Gladstone

Answer 3

March 1866 bill: divided liberals, Robert Lowe led ‘no’ lobby and brought down own government

Question 4

Disraeli

Answer 4

Pragmatic

Bill March 1867, passed August

Question 5

Richard Cobden

Answer 5

1839 founded Anti-Corn Law League (repealed 1846)

Speeches 1858 promoting reform, failed but made public aware

Question 6

1864

Answer 6

Reform Union
Respectable lobby group
Male ratepayers
Liberal minded employers supported e.g Samuel Morley (wool)

Question 7

1865

Answer 7

Reform League
Universal male suffrage
Widespread support, including ex-chartists and trade unionists
Assertive but respectable demonstrations

Question 8

tory minority

Answer 8

minority government in june 1866

Question 9

population increase

Answer 9

1821 24 million

1861 31 million

Question 10

Hyde Park Riots

Answer 10

23 July 1866
Reform League following failure first liberal bill
200 000 assembled
John Bedford Leno
Ended peacefully

Question 11

Other riots

Answer 11

Birmingham Reform demonstrations Aug 1866

Islington Feb 1867