The Second Reform Act
Just little notes without much detail about the 1867 Second Reform Act which enfranchised the lower middle class/urban workers.
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- The Second Reform Act
- 1867
- Around this time there was a cholera epidemic
- Also an economic slump
- Contributing factors (possible)
- Around this time there was a cholera epidemic
- Contributing factors (possible)
- Enfranchised part of the urban working class// 'respectable working men'//lower branch of the middle class
- However, excluded the unskilled workers, the poor and of course women
- Prior to Act, Palmerston was against any type of political change
- His death in 1865, however, gave way to the opportunity of further reform
- Liberals under Gladstone and Russell drew up the proposal to extend the vote
- To boroughs with rateable worth £7 a year, and with counties £14, likely which 400,000 men of which the Reform League supported
- The bill was thrown out though due to Conservative oppostion
- But it was also aided by 40 Liberals who objected giving the 'ignorant' WC the right to vote
- This caused Russell (PM at the time) to resign
- It also caused the RL to demonstrate throughout the country
- Possibly because of the growing pressure from the WC, Lord Derby (part of the Conservatives which were not in office with a minority) to propose a new bill
- Alongside Disraeli in the Commons
- Idea of passing a 'less bill' as the 'lesser evil'
- The Conservative bill ended up being radicalized in order to show up the Liberals + in order to show the CP as the party of the people
- Alongside Disraeli in the Commons
- Possibly because of the growing pressure from the WC, Lord Derby (part of the Conservatives which were not in office with a minority) to propose a new bill
- It also caused the RL to demonstrate throughout the country
- The bill was thrown out though due to Conservative oppostion
- To boroughs with rateable worth £7 a year, and with counties £14, likely which 400,000 men of which the Reform League supported
- Liberals under Gladstone and Russell drew up the proposal to extend the vote
- His death in 1865, however, gave way to the opportunity of further reform
- The Conservative bill ended up being radicalized in order to show up the Liberals + in order to show the CP as the party of the people
- 1867
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