Responsibility for Popular Protest - Limitations for Responsibility for Popular PRotest

Question 1

Issue:

- Scotch Cattle

Answer 1

RESPONSIBILITY FOR POPULAR PROTEST:

• Working Class Solidarity in South Wales Coalfield
• ‘Midnight Visit’
• Tradition of protest important for Merthyr Rising

Question 2

Issue:

- Scotch Cattle

Answer 2

LIMITATIONS FOR RESPONSIBILITY FOR POPULAR PROTEST:

• Limited to South Wales Coalfield
• Not National
• Little impact outside Monmouthshire

Question 3

Issue:

- Swing Riots

Answer 3

RESPONSIBILITY FOR POPULAR PROTEST:

• Rioting in Southern England
• Context of Reform Crisis
• Led to Changes in Poor Law = Anti-Poor Law Movement

Question 4

Issue:

- Swing Riots

Answer 4

LIMITATIONS FOR RESPONSIBILITY FOR POPULAR PROTEST:

- Limited to Southern England

Question 5

Issue:

- Anti-Poor Law Movement

Answer 5

RESPONSIBILITY FOR POPULAR PROTEST:

• Protests and some success in North of England
• ‘Building Block’ of Chartism

Question 6

Issue:

- Anti-Poor Law Movement

Answer 6

LIMITATIONS FOR RESPONSIBILITY FOR POPULAR PROTEST:

- Limited success and protests in Southern England

Question 7

Issue:

- Rebecca Riots

Answer 7

RESPONSIBILITY FOR POPULAR PROTEST:

• Protests spread throughout rural West Wales amongst tenant farmers
• Protests did start to spread into Glamorgan and amongst industrial workers
• Protests became increasingly violent
• Received national press

Question 8

Issue:

- Rebecca Riots

Answer 8

LIMITATIONS FOR RESPONSIBILITY FOR POPULAR PROTEST:

• Confined to West Wales
• West Wales Farmers’ concerns about involvement of industrial workers and agricultural labourers was a reason why protests came to an end

Question 9

Issue:

- Merthyr Rising

Answer 9

RESPONSIBILITY FOR POPULAR PROTEST:

• Context of Reform Crisis
• Tried to spread protests to other iron towns in the South Wales valleys

Question 10

Issue:

- Merthyr Rising

Answer 10

LIMITATIONS FOR RESPONSIBILITY FOR POPULAR PROTEST:

• Limited to Merthyr and surrounding area only
• Unsuccessful in spreading Rising beyond Merthyr

Question 11

Issue:

- Factory Movement

Answer 11

RESPONSIBILITY FOR POPULAR PROTEST:

• Ten Hour Movement and Short Time Committees
• Campaign for Factory Reform - some limited success
• ‘Building Block’ of Chartism

Question 12

Issue:

- Factory Movement

Answer 12

LIMITATIONS FOR RESPONSIBILITY FOR POPULAR PROTEST:

- Limited success in gaining effective Factory Reform

Question 13

Issue:

- Growth of Early Trade Union

Answer 13

RESPONSIBILITY FOR POPULAR PROTEST:

• Increased strikes
• Formation of national Trade Unions e.g. NAPL and GNCTU
• National
• Help implement some of Robert Owen’s ideas on Trade Unionism and Cooperative Society
• ‘Building Block’ of Chartism

Question 14

Issue:

- Growth of Early Trade Union

Answer 14

LIMITATIONS FOR RESPONSIBILITY FOR POPULAR PROTEST:

- Limited - National Trade Unions only existed a couple of years before they collapsed

Question 15

Issue:

- Chartism

Answer 15

RESPONSIBILITY FOR POPULAR PROTEST:

• National Conventions
• National Petitions
• Newport Rising
• Plug Plot
• Kennington Common

Question 16

Issue:

- Chartism

Answer 16

LIMITATIONS FOR RESPONSIBILITY FOR POPULAR PROTEST:

• Protests didn’t achieve aims in short term
• Flaws with national petitions
• Disagreements over purpose of National Conventions
• Newport Rising; Plug Plot and Kennington Common didn’t result in a national protest

Question 17

Issue:

- ACLL

Answer 17

RESPONSIBILITY FOR POPULAR PROTEST:

• Peaceful means of protests
• Campaigning inside Parliament
• Use of Press

Question 18

Issue:

- ACLL

Answer 18

LIMITATIONS FOR RESPONSIBILITY FOR POPULAR PROTEST:

• Peel’s conversion to Repeal was more important
• No significant events - a long term protest