chartist demands

Question 1

what was on the people’s charter

Answer 1

• universal suffrage for all men over 21
• a secret ballot to protect voters and reduce influence of landlords
• annual parliaments to ensure MPs keep in touch with needs of constituents
• abolition of property qualification for MPs to enable anyone to stand
• payments for MPs to enable men to give up jobs and focus on helping constituents
• constituents of equal size to deal with under representation not dealt with in 1832

Question 2

causes if Chartism: opposition to Whig reforms of the 1830s: failure to help workers

Answer 2

• great reform act
• 1833 factory act didn’t provide 10 hour day
• 1834 poor law ammendment act punished the poor by placing them in workhouses

Question 3

causes if Chartism: opposition to Whig reforms of the 1830s: what developed in response to these laws and provided building blocks of chartist activity

Answer 3

• anti poor law and 10 hour movements

Question 4

causes if Chartism: opposition to Whig reforms of the 1830s: protection of police

Answer 4

• in huddersfield and bradford poor law guardians had to be protected by local cavalry
• at todmorden police constable were attacked

Question 5

causes if Chartism: opposition to Whig reforms of the 1830s: what did feargus o’connor do in 1837

Answer 5

estbalished the northern star in leeds to cmapaign for an end to the poor law

Question 6

causes if Chartism: attacks on trade unions: tolpuddle martyres

Answer 6

• 6 leaders of the freindlt society of agricultural labourers (1833 set up to fight wage cuts)
• sentenced to 7 years deportation to australia

Question 7

causes if Chartism: attacks on trade unions: tolpuddle martyrs protests

Answer 7

• response to sentences 30 000 radicals marched through london in april 1834

Question 8

causes if Chartism: attacks on trade unions: what happened to unions leaders

Answer 8

• in oldham they were arrested, mills were attacked
  d- in 1837 leaders of glasgow spinners’ strike were also transported

Question 9

causes if Chartism: disappointment of the 1832 reform act: given nothing to who

Answer 9

• working class
• leading to growth of politically conscious working class

Question 10

causes if Chartism: disappointment of the 1832 reform act: who drew up the people’s charter

Answer 10

• LWMA in 1837
• to push for more radical reform as so many felt alienated due to property qualifications for voting

Question 11

causes if Chartism: economic issues: how many unemployed handloom weavers by the 1840s

Answer 11

• 400 000
  -> many joined chartist movement
• worsening economic conditions from 1837

Question 12

causes if Chartism: the “war of the unstamped”: stamp duty on newspapers act

Answer 12

• 1819
• to reduce radical press
• many publishers ignored and printed anti-gov papers

Question 13

causes if Chartism: the “war of the unstamped”: how did whigs clamp down on “unstamped press”

Answer 13

• from 1830-36
• 700 vendors arrested
• by 1836 there were still hundreds of illegal newspapers

Question 14

causes if Chartism: the “war of the unstamped”: provided training

Answer 14

• training for journalists and publishers in techniques of radical communication and organisation