chartism ; national support change

national support

- strong support in expanding industrial areas of midlands and north

- well-organised local associations in textile districs of manchester and surrounding towns

- areas where poor law agitation strong and organisational skills from anti-poor law associations put to use in sustaining chartists

- movement especially strong in textile trades (those whose livelihoods threatened by technological change)

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- industrial areas in scotland also supported chartists esp. after government suppression of the glasgow weavers strike in 1837-8

- ireland never gained widespread support

- irish nationalists e.g young ireland most…