B ; reform ; pressures ; representation of the people act '84

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election of '80 returned who to office for a second time?
gladstone
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irish home rule arty took how many seats in '80?
63 ooh beef
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was there any extra-parliamentary pressure for this?
nah
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but gladstone fd maintenance of what difficult to justify?
separate borough / county franchises
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with what kind of suffrage in boroughs?
household
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and in counties?
£12 suffrage
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experience of living in '67 reform act convinved gladstone it'd b ok to enfranchise who?
agricultural workers in the countryside
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what may have influence this though?
partisan advantage
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when did gladstone introduce this reform bill?
'84
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proposed creating a single national franchise of?
male householders / £10 lodgers
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what happened in the commons?
passed easily
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and lords?
blocked
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thanks to whose intervention?
conservative leader salisbury
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he was aware liberal support came from?
boroughs
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and tories?
counties
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so logically he feared?
librals would take over counties
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when did queen victoria urge parties to negotiate and end deadlock?
oct '84
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party leaders met @ salisbury's home in ldn and agreed what?
arlington street compact
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which meant the tories would allow bill to pass as ling as it was followed by?
major redistribution of seats
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what happened following this?
3rd reform act passed into law w/ little debate
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electorate rose by what % as result of this first ever national qual?
84%
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to?
5.5M
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was this a larger or smaller numberical increase than the others?
larger duuh 2.5M ukno
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contemporary observers believed this had established?
democratic system
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had it?
nah
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household suffrage excluded?
many adult males ERM AND ALL THE WOMEN!!!
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what kinds of people didn't meet household suffrage qualification, there's a big ole list?
sons of householders / servants / mmbs armed forces / most of 'residuum' / unskilled + casual labourers
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and what big group?
WOMEN
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this act excluded what % adult males from franchise?
40%
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