The Chartists
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- Created on: 17-03-19 13:32
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- The Chartists
- Causes
- They wanted to be represented in Parliament
- They wanted the right to vote
- Aims
- A vote for all men over the age of 21
- Secret Ballot
- Equal electoral districts
- No property qualifications to be an MP
- Payment for MPs
- Annual Parliaments
- Methods
- Physical force
- Fergus O'Connor published the Northern Star
- Drilled on the moors
- Violent uprisings using Pikes
- The Newport Rising in 1839 got 20 Chartists shot
- Moral Force
- Birmingham Political Union
- Mass meetings
- Petitions
- Mass meeting of 150,000 people in Glasgow in 1838
- Multiple petitions
- 1839 - 1,280,000
- 1842 - 3,317,752
- 1848 - 5 million
- Physical force
- Key events
- 1819 - Peterloo Massacre
- Caused the 6 Acts the restricted radical meetings
- 1832 - Great Reform Act
- 1867 - Reform Act gave the vote to 8% of the population
- 1872 - Ballot Act introduced a secret Balllot
- 1911 -Parliament Act introduced the payment of MPs
- 1918, 5/6 aims achieved
- 1819 - Peterloo Massacre
- Key Individuals
- Thomas Atwood, moral force Whig MP who organised the initial petition in 1830, which had 8,000 signatures
- Fergus O'Connor, radical MP, physical force Chartist
- Significance
- Failure in the short term as the government responded with repression
- Long term is well remembered, set a precedent for Trade Unions, the Labour Party and the working-class rights movement
- Causes
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