22.PD Efforts To Achieve Reform 52-67 Different To 20-32 Flashcards
What are the 3 factors for this question?
Violent protest
Radical societies
Government responses/attitudes
Violent protest
When were the Bristol riots? How many killed?
1831
12 killed by troops
Violent Protest
When were the Swing Riots? How much damage caused
1830-32
£100,000 of arson damage
Violent protest
What happened in 1831 as a result of the government rejecting reform bill?
Nottingham castle burned
Violent protest
What failure caused less violence in 1852-67?
Chartism
Violent protest
Which group led The Hyde park riots? When were they? How many people campaigning for how many days?
Reform league
1866
200,000
3 days
Less violent but police still called in
Radical Societies
What was the ‘Days of May’?
BPU Rally of 200,000 in 1832 - working and middle class together
Radical Societies
Who led the Metropolitan Political Union? What event were they involved in?
Henry Hunt
Peterloo (1819)
Radical Societies
How many reform petitions presented to Parliament between 1830-31?
3000
Radical societies
When did the National Reform Union form? Who were they made up of?
1864
All middle class male rate payers
Radical Societies
When did the Reform League form? How many Branches? Who were the spokespeople?
1865
400 branches
Gladstone and Bright (both MPs)
Gov response/ attitudes
Who split the tories over the Catholic emancipation bill? What did this lead to?
Wellington
Earl Grey forming the whigs who passed 1832 act
Gov responses
Who referred to working classes as a “swinish multitude”? When?
Edmund Burke
First used 1790
Gov attitudes
Between 1830-66 how many middle class MPs?
14
Gov attitudes
What did the 1832 Reform Act do?
Increased electorate to 650,000
