Suffrage Y8

< 1832 politics (e.g. public voting)

• Public voting

• MPs have to own property

• Only upper class men could vote (owning some property)

• Who you voted for could be controlled by your landlord

• Uneven representation (old Sarum with 7 people with 1 mp, London which also has 1mp)

• MPs don’t get paid

People’s charter 6 points

• All men over the age of 21 should be able to vote

• Secret ballot

• Abolishment of property qualifications

• Payment of MPs

• Equal Constituency(representation)

• Annual Parliaments

What issues did the people's charter address?

• Votes for all meant political independence

• The ballot stopped people from being blackmailed or threatened for the vote

• Abolishment of property qualifications stopped corruption

• Equal Constituences prevented unfair representation across the UK

• Annual Parliaments ensured that most wouldn't be susceptible to bribery and would do their job in order to be elected again next year.

LMWA

London Men's association, political reform, people's charter

BPU and what they were fighting for

Lead by Thomas Attwood, found in 1829 They wanted economic reform. (Birmingham Political union)

• Reduce unemployment

• Trilinneal parliament to increase MP accountability

• Abolition of property qualifications

• Votes for all men that paid taxes either locally or nationally

• For large manufacturing towns like Birmingham to be represented in parliament.

Thomas Attwood

25th January 1830, 10,000 people attended the first meeting of Birmingham Political union

He became the freeman of London in recognition for the role he played in gaining the vote. After the 1832 reform act where he became the first mp in Birmingham along with Joshua Scholefield.

PPU(Preston People's Union

Lead by Henry Hunt, created in 1830.

• All those that paid taxes should vote

• Child labor should end

• Universal suffrage (made a petition in 1832)

• “Working classes and no other”

• Secret Ballot

• Repeal of Corn Laws.

Henry Hunt

• Was elected as candidate for the Westminster constituency in 1818

• Elected as Radical Candidate for Preston in 1830.

Fergus O'Connor (and what he fought for)

• Secret Ballot

• Abolition of property qualifications

• Equal representation of the UK

• Annual Parliaments

• Ireland's freedom and the repeal of the act of union(1801)

• Abolition of tithes and praising church power.

Newcastle Union(and what they fought for)

• Political representation and universal suffrage for all

• Stopping the exploitation of the poor

• Right to education for all

• Passing the people's charter

• Right to employment

• Financial independence and ability to own property for all.

Susanna Inge (and what she fought for)

• Better education for women

• Equal views of women and men

• Equal political rights

• Fought for male suffrage, believing they would get female suffrage afterwards.

• Attempted to establish a female chartist association with Mary Ann Walker in October of 1842.

Anne Knight

• Disliked the treatment of female chartists

• Published a letter in Brighton Herald(1850) and demanded universal suffrage should be campaigned for by all

• Established Sheffield Female Political association and their first meeting was held in Sheffield February 1851

• Published first petition for campaigning universal suffrage in the UK, 1851 and was presented to the house of lords in 1859.