Popular Protest
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- Created on: 01-04-14 14:19
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- Popular Protest 1815-21
- Derbyshire Rising
- Demands
- wanted to set up new gov to help poor workers
- mixture of political and economic motives
- 1817
- Demands
- The Spa Fields Meetings
- 1816
- Henry Hunt wanted:
- lower taxes on the poor
- parliamentary reform - universal suffrage and secret ballot
- Thistlewood and Preston had much more extreme intentions
- overthrowing the monarchy
- mainly political demands
- March of the Blanketeers
- 1817
- wanted help for weaving industry
- plight of the handloom weavers
- economic demands
- Peterloo Massacre
- wanted vote for all adult men
- other parliamentary reforms
- 1819
- mainly political demands
- Cato Street Conspiracy
- 1820
- wanted to get rid of the monarchy and gov
- wanted to proclaim country a republic
- political demands
- Derbyshire Rising
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