23.PD Chartism Most Significant Campaign For Electoral Reform

Question 1

What are the factors for this question?

Answer 1

Chartism
Role of reforming MPs
Protesting Organisations

Question 2

Chartism
When did the chartists present their second petition to Parliament? How many signatures?

Answer 2

April 1842
3.3 million signatures

Question 3

Chartists

How many members in the NCA by 1842?

Answer 3

70,000

Question 4

Chartists

How many branches did the CSU have by when?

Answer 4

50 branches by April 1842

Question 5

Chartists

When were The Plug Riots? How many workers went on strike? Across which areas?

Answer 5

1842
500,000
Staffordshire, Yorkshire, Cheshire, Lancashire

Question 6

Role of reforming MPs

When did Disraeli present reform bills to cabinet? How many MPs resigned as a result?

Answer 6

Between Feb and August 1867

3

Question 7

Role of reforming MPs

When did Gladstone argue it was a “scandal” that only what proportion of working men had the vote?

Answer 7

1864
1/10

Question 8

Role of reforming MPs

Who supported the idea of 1 man 1 vote? Where was he MP for?

Answer 8

John Bright
Birmingham

Question 9

Role of Reforming MPs

How many attended John Brights speech in Brookfields Birmingham?

Answer 9

150,000-200,000

Question 10

Protesting organisations

When did Cobden become leader of the Anti Corn Law League? When did he give speeches?

Answer 10

1839
1858

Question 11

Protesting organisations
When were the Reform League created? What did they want?

Answer 11

1865
Universal suffrage and a secret ballot

Question 12

Protesting Organisations

When were The Hyde Park riots? How many there? How were they stopped?

Answer 12

23rd July 1866
200,000
Stopped with military action