Chartism - from essays

Question 1

severe trade depression began … lasting until … = unemp in ind … & rural … areas

Answer 1

1837
1842
steel & coal
wool & textiles

Question 2

reformer … described Chartism as a ‘knife and fork, bread and cheese question’ in …

Answer 2

Joseph Rayner Stephens
1838

Question 3

high points of Chartist activity … coincided with econ slump

Answer 3

1838
1842
1848

Question 4

suppression GNCTU (…) …, suppression Glasgow Spinners’ Union … & subsequent transportation … leaders

Answer 4

Grand Nat Consolidated Trades Union
1834
1837
18

Question 5

Great Reform Act … = … boroughs disenfranchised, … new constituencies in ind towns & unrepresented areas

Answer 5

1832
56
67

Question 6

Great Reform Act … inc electorate … to … = … adult males now vote

Answer 6

1832
~500,000
813,000
1 in 5

Question 7

People’s Charter …

Answer 7

1838

Question 8

3 key reform movements united in supp People’s Charter = …

Answer 8

William Lovett & London Working Men’s Association
Thomas Attwood & Birmingham Political Union
Feargus O’Connor & Great Northern Union

Question 9

campaigners for Ten Hour Movement disillusioned & frustrated by …

Answer 9

Factory Act 1833

Question 10

‘poor relief’ under Elizabethan Poor Law …, Poor Law Act … abol ‘outdoor relief’, Parl voted against motion to repeal …

Answer 10

1601
1834
1838

Question 11

O’Connor’s Northern Star newspaper estab … oppose Poor Law -> C

Answer 11

1837

Question 12

… Northern delegates to first C Convention … prominent leaders of Anti-Poor Law Campaign

Answer 12

14/20
1839

Question 13

… electric telegraph, demonstrated … at Kennington Common = immediate info about where C meet

Answer 13

1840s
1848

Question 14

2 waves railway mania … & … covering … by …

Answer 14

1836-38
1844-46
5,000 miles
1850

Question 15

(rail networks) Bull Ring riots … authorities able send … Met Police Officers directly to Birmingham within few hours

Answer 15

1839
60

Question 16

Newport Uprising … troops had march … to meet uprising, … after it had begun

Answer 16

1839
100
6 days

Question 17

Metropolitan Police Act … = sing;e, professional & uniformed force of … men London & surrounding counties

Answer 17

1829
1,000

Question 18

Rural Police Act …

Answer 18

1839

Question 19

Plug Plot Riots … = police sent to trouble spots in Yorkshire & Lancashire … arrested & several leaders transported Australia up to …

Answer 19

1842
100s
7 years

Question 20

… police arrested … Chartist leaders & many including … handed short-term prison sentences …

Answer 20

1939-40
500
William Lovett
1 or 2 years

Question 21

… Major General Napier sent command … troops in … counties in Northern District, split force into … divisions around ind centres (member …)

Answer 21

1839
4,000
11
3
Bath Working Men’s Association

Question 22

by … string good harvests, revival trade & subsequent improvements wages

Answer 22

1842

Question 23

… t u movement something of revival

Answer 23

late 1840s

Question 24

Sir Robert Peel range of reforms: Mines Act …, Factory Act …, Poor Law Act … (repealed) & Corn Laws repealed …

Answer 24

1842
1844
1847
1846

Question 25

while in prison ... Lovett wrote ... -> created .... ... called 'Knowledge Chartism'

Answer 25

1840 'Chartism: a new organisation for the people' Nat Assoc Promoting the Pol & Soc Improvements of the People 1840

Question 26

... O'Connor formed Nat Chartist Assoc - ... regional branches & ... paying members

Answer 26

1840 400 over 70,000

Question 27

... in attempt unite Chartist movement unveiled 'Land Plan'

Answer 27

1845

Question 28

William Lovett imprisoned after ...

Answer 28

Birmingham Bull Ring Riots

Question 29

historian ... argued 'Chartism was not a creed, it was the blind revolt of hunger'

Answer 29

Élie Halévy

Question 30

throughout 1840s Chartists estab new unions e.g. ... & ...

Answer 30

the General Tailors' Trade Protection Society the Miner's Assoc of GB & Ireland (MAGBI)

Question 31

formation of Nat Assoc of United Trades ...

Answer 31

1845

Question 32

early years ... female Chartist assocs

Answer 32

100

Question 33

beyond ... most mc members including ... left movement

Answer 33

1838 Thomas Attwood & BPU

Question 34

first Chartist petition ... signatures

Answer 34

over 1.3mil

Question 35

... second petition ... signatures collected = ... adult pop

Answer 35

1842 3mil 1/3

Question 36

... third petition ... signatures

Answer 36

1848 5mil

Question 37

...'s study of Chartism in Essex & Suffolk = these 2 counties provided ... total Chartist supp

Answer 37

Richard Brown less 1%

Question 38

... notorious for trenchant sermons denouncing C leaders as irreligious

Answer 38

Bishop of Norwich