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
- Feargus O'Connor
- Moral Force
- 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
- Organised by O'Connor at Kennington Common in 1848
- Firsts Chartist Petition
- 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
- Originated in speeches by O'Connor
- The People's Charter
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