Chartism

which act disappointed workers by only restricting children's working hours

factory act 1833

which act excluded wc from local government

municipal corporations act 1835

which act shocked british radicals and prompted mass meetings and demonstrations

irish coercion act 1833

date of poor law amendment act

1834

how many out of work in manchester

50,000 in 1837

was lovett moral or physical

moral

was place moral or physical

moral

was attwood moral or physical

moral

was o'connor moral or physical

physical

was o'brien moral or physical

physical

was harnay moral or physical

physical

was frost moral or physical

physical

date of people's charter

1837

how many copies did the Northern Star sell

50,000 a week by 1837

signatures collected in 1839

1.25 million

chartist meeting broken up by police

july 1839

effects of police attacking chartists in 1839

fortnight of rioting, lovett sentenced to a year in prison

date of newport rising

nov 1839

how many were at the newport rising

10,000

over the 2 years after the newport rising, how many were imprisoned

500

when was a sacred month suggested

sept 1839

lovett's focus after 1840

knowledge chartism

signatures in 1842

3.3 million

response to parliament rejecting second petition

lancashire plug riots, strikes in wolverhampton, rioting

gov response to plug riots

6000 troops deployed led by Napier

o'connor's land plan dates

1845-8

O'connor elected to parliament

1847

no of signatures on third petition

6 million (actually 2 million)

date of kennington commons

10 April 1848 - royal family left country

economic situation

1/2 of all mechanics in dundee unemployed in 1839

evidence chartism was not that revolutionary

o'connor condemned the lancashire plug riots

gov response to chartism

extension of the metropolitan policing act of 1829 to include rural areas

when was LWMA formed

1836- tailors and artisans

When was ‘The people’s charter’ taken up by the BPU & Northern movement

May 1838

Where was Charter launched

Glasgow- 1838- 100,000 attended to hear O’Connor

Rejection of 1st petition - July 1839

Parliament rejected 235 to 46

What did Napier blame chartist situation on

‘Tory injustice & Whig imbecility’

Who led Newport rising

John Frost - sentenced to transportation

How many killed at Newport

at least 20

1841 election

Whigs defeated by Peel’s Conservative Party

What had changed 1840?

Influential leaders had finished prison sentences

Lovett in 1840

• Imprisoned after Bull ring riots 1839

• Promoting ‘Knowledge chartism’

Repeal of corn laws

1846

Mines Act 1842

banned women and boys under 10 

How many families settled under Land plan

only 250 families by 1848

1848 manchester unemployment

24,000 unemployed

Special constables at Kennington Common

150,000

1852 circulation of Northern Star

1,200

Percentage of women signed 1839 petition

1/3

Percentage of national chartist support in Essex and Suffolk

less than 1%

Carlyle on Chartism

‘bitter discontent grown fierce & mad'

Defensive violence

‘Peacefully if we can forcibly if we must’

Harney on the charter

‘a means to an end- the means was their political rights and the end was social equality’

JR stephens on the question of Universal suffrage

‘a knife and fork question; a bread and cheese question’

G D H Cole

‘ Hunger and hatred- these were the forces that made Chartism a mass movement of the British Working Class’