Uk Reform Timeline

Question 1

August 16th 1819

Answer 1

Peterloo massacre

Question 2

Peterloo facts

Answer 2

• 11 dead, 400 injured
• crowd of 60,000 in St Peter’s field Manchester
• magistrates ordered meeting to end but no one heard
• drunk yeomanry and cavalry attacked crowd

Question 3

1832

Answer 3

First reform act

Question 4

First reform act

Answer 4

• only vote if u had land
• new industrial towns got MPs
• Scotland more representation

Question 5

1836

Answer 5

William Lovett’s list of demands (people’s charter)

Question 6

William Lovett’s list of demands (people’s charter)

Answer 6

They wanted the vote for everyone over 21, secret voting, annual election and property not needed to be a MP

Question 7

What happened in 1839, 1842, and later 1842 (?)

Answer 7

House of Commons rejected chartist petitions, even though they had millions of signatures

Question 8

1872

Answer 8

The secret ballot act

Question 9

1867

Answer 9

The second reform act

Question 10

Why did the second reform act happen?

Answer 10

Social change
Communication and education
Fear of revolution
Changing political ideas

Question 11

What did the second reform act do?

Answer 11

Increased the men who could vote
Scotland got more MPs
Skilled working class men could vote in towns
Roughly doubled voters

Question 12

Local chartist leaders in Wales imprisoned 1839

Answer 12

14 shot dead when trying to escape

Question 13

1883

Answer 13

Corrupt practices act, it was illegal to bribe or influence voters

Question 14

1884

Answer 14

Third reform act

Question 15

Limitations of third reform act

Answer 15

40% of men couldn’t vote
Women not voting
MPs not given salary
Constituencies based on land not population

Question 16

Good things about third reform act

Answer 16

Gave voters in the country the same right to vote as in towns
All adult men owning or renting a property worth £10 a year could vote

Question 17

Peterloo massacre date

Answer 17

August 16th 1819