Richard Oastler

Question 1

absentee landlord Thomas Thornhill

Answer 1

knew about Oastler’s support for 10 hours’ Movement and sympathised w/ movement’s aims, introducing him to several leading politicians

Question 2

What led to his downfall?

Answer 2

Oastler’s involvement in anti-Poor Law agitation, also led to withdrawal of support from Thornhill

Question 3

Oastler believed poor law commissioners were too powerful

Answer 3

believed supplying cheap labour in form of pauperised agricultural workers would lead to reduction in factory wages, leading to more pauperism in manufacturing towns in Midlands and North

Question 4

1838

Answer 4

Oastler was urging workers to involve themselves in strikes and sabotage, led workers in violently resisting attempts to impose new Poor Law

Question 5

Thornill’s reaction to Oastler’s involvement

Answer 5

dismissed him immediately - this did not stop Oastler from campaigning, had more time to urge working people to protest, placed in debtors’ prison from 2 years w/out income