Great Reform Act 1832
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- Great Reform Act 1832
- Causes
- Campaigns and Events
- 1819 Peterloo Massacre
- Swing Riots in the South of England 1830
- Cato Street Conspiracy
- Days of May
- Groups
- Birmingham Political Union
- Other political unions inspired by BPU
- Tory Party Crisis
- Catholic emancipation divided MPs
- Resignation and death of Lord Liverpool
- Wellington is unpopular - loses 1831 election
- Emerging middle classes
- Industrialisation brought about a new middle class
- Powerful, influential and moral
- Had power as shown in Days of May - needed to be enfranchised
- Campaigns and Events
- Provisions
- Enfranchised the middle classes
- Electorate rose from 366,000 to 650,000 in England and Wales
- Middle classes still reluctant for workers to have the vote
- Redistributed boroughs and counties
- Removed most rotten and pocket boroughs
- Enfranchised the large industrial cities
- Some injustices remained
- Power still remained with landowners
- No secret ballots
- Working classes not enfranchised
- Most MPs (370) were in the South, only 120 in the North
- Enfranchised the middle classes
- Consequences
- Rise of Chartism
- Rise of Reform Union and Reform League
- Beginning of a period of reform
- Whigs gained a reputation as reformers
- Causes
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