Working Class Failure, c1833-48

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  • Working Class Failure c1833-48
    • The People's Charter
      • Radicals from LMWA with 6 radical MPs
      • 1838
      • Aimed to establish a democratic electoral system
      • Had 6 points:
        • Universal manhood suffrage < 21
        • Secret ballot
        • Abolition of property qualification for MPs
        • Payment of MPs
        • Equal size constituencies
        • Annual elections
      • Wanted to present bill to parliament
    • Divisions within Chartism
      • Moral Force
        • Peaceful persuasion
        • William Lovett
        • Held meetings and delivered pamphlets
          • Presented petitions to parliament
      • Physical Force
        • Feargus O'Connor
          • Founded the National Charter Association in 1840
        • Violence and protest
          • Police always seemed to be one step ahead of the movement
        • Newport Uprising
          • 1839
          • 10,000 Chartist sympathisers marched on Newport
            • Led by John Frost
          • Protest against authority
          • Over 200 Chartists were arrested
            • 21 charged with high treason
    • Chartist Petitions
      • Firsts Chartist Petition
        • 1839
        • LWMA presented the first petition to parliament
        • Reject by 235 - 46
      • Second Chartist Petiton
        • Presented by Thomas Slingsby Duncombe in 1942
        • Signed by 3,315,752 people
          • Mostly from Yorkshire and Lancashire
      • Third Chartist Petition
        • Organised by O'Connor at Kennington Common in 1848
          • Physical force meeting
        • 5,706,000 signatures
          • Many were fake/forged
    • Chartist Land Plan
      • Originated in speeches by O'Connor
        • Birmingham 1843
        • Manchester 1845
      • Chartist Land Co-Operative Society formed in 1845
        • As a result of the London convention of the NCA
        • Later renamed the National Land Company
          • Ended 1851

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