Pressure for the First Reform Act
- Created by: becky.65
- Created on: 15-05-17 16:28
No secret ballot, pocket and rotten boroughs = corruption
1780 - Society for Constitutional Information - Cartwright
1785 - Pitt proposed disenfranchising 36 of the worst boroughs
1789 - French revolution
- raised the question of the 'rule by the rich' and criticed Britian's political system
1791 - Sheffield Society for Constitutional Information - May 1792 petition with 10,000 signatures
1792 - Rights of Man - Thomas Paine - inspired young reformers
- London Corresponding Society - 26 Oct. 1795 demonstration at Copenhagen Fields (100,000 people)
1807 election - Burdett and Cobbett raise issue of reform
1815 - economic distress
- Corn Laws increased price of bread - employers had to riase wages - increased middle class criticism
1816 - harvests fail - riots in islington
Radical press - Cobbett, Wooler, Hunt - increased political awareness
1817 - March…
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