1790s Radicalism

Who were the two main British philosophers who wrote for and against the French Revolution 1789–92?

Edmund Burke and Thomas Paine

What was the first radical organisation – name, date founded, and founder?

Society for Constitutional Information 1780 Major John Cartwright

What was the second radical organisation – name, date founded, and founder?

London Corresponding Society 1792 Thomas Hardy

What class generally supported the LCS?

Skilled workers such as artisans

What was the loyalist reaction called?

Association Movement

Give two examples of anti-radical activities done by loyalists.

Church and King mobs; burning effigies of Paine; petitions; armed volunteers

Which had more members radical or loyalist groups?

Loyalist

When did the government become especially worried about the two radical groups in the 1790s?

When they allied with the Whig led Society of the Friends of the People in 1792

Give four measures the government took to counter radical activity in the 1790s including dates.

1792 Royal Proclamation against seditious writings; 1794 suspension of habeas corpus; 1794 trial of LCS leaders; 1795 Gagging Acts; use of spies

Aside from government repression what was the key reason radicalism declined in the 1790s?

Patriotism during the French Revolutionary Wars