radical reformers - from essays

Question 1

Dr Richard Price = … preached sermon entitled … praising French Rev & arguing B had right to choose gov

Answer 1

1789
‘A Discourse on the Love of our Country’

Question 2

poets e.g. … & …

Answer 2

Samuel Coleridge
William Wordsworth

Question 3

Thomas Paine wrote … … = … copies sold in first year

Answer 3

‘The Rights of Man’
1791
200,000

Question 4

end of war … = rapid collapse exports e.g. … & unemp rose rapidly, worsened by sudden demobilisation … soldiers & sailors

Answer 4

1815
textiles & iron
300,000

Question 5

bad harvests …

Answer 5

1816 & 1817

Question 6

right to vote established during reign of … in … giving vote to freeholders only

Answer 6

Henry VI
1430

Question 7

estimated (… out of …) = … adult pop could vote in 1831

Answer 7

500,000
24mil
~3%

Question 8

newly populated areas e.g. … = no representation in parliament

Answer 8

Manchester, Bolton, Leeds

Question 9

Old Corruption - … MPs sent from boroughs in Cornwall (pop …), only … from Lancashire (pop …)

Answer 9

42
300,000
14
1.3mil

Question 10

… = one of many leaders who established Corresponding Societies

Answer 10

Thomas Hardy

Question 11

Major John Cartwright toured country … visiting discontented ‘Luddite’ counties in north & in many e.g. … helped establish Hampden Clubs

Answer 11

1812-15
Leicester, Liverpool, Manchester, Sheffield, Nottingham

Question 12

by … Hampden Clubs present in most industrial towns & by … … in Lancashire alone

Answer 12

1815
1817
40

Question 13

William Cobbett established radical paper … in …

Answer 13

‘Political Register’
1802

Question 14

… Cobbett exploited loophole in stamp duty & produced condensed … sold for … = sold … copies in …

Answer 14

1816
‘Two-Penny Trash’
2d
200,000
2 months

Question 15

… to … habeas corpus suspended allowing to imprison suspected radicals without trial e.g. …

Answer 15

May 1794
July 1795
Thomas Spence

Question 16

… Treasonable Practices Act & Seditious Meetings Act = enabled to arrest based on what said/wrote & restricted meetings of more than … people

Answer 16

1795
50

Question 17

… introduction of ‘stamp duty’ on newspapers

Answer 17

1802

Question 18

… Gagging Acts = collection legislative measures reintroduced Seditious Meetings Act (punishable by death pen) & banned num organisations

Answer 18

1817

Question 19

… authorities broke up Nat Convention in … -> … (along with others) arrested & sentenced to …

Answer 19

1793
Edinburgh
Thomas Muir
14 years transportation to Botany Bay, Australia

Question 20

… Committee of Secrecy = … established network spies & agent provocateurs

Answer 20

1817
Lord Liverpool

Question 21

… encouraged Pentridge Uprising … -> public hanging & beheading radical leaders & transportation … others

Answer 21

Oliver
1817
30

Question 22

St Peter’s Fields Meeting … = … killed & … injured

Answer 22

1819
11
400

Question 23

Cobbett’s ‘Political Register’ had circulation of … by …

Answer 23

4,000/week
1806

Question 24

Pentridge Uprising … men armed with pikes, forks & few guns marched on …

Answer 24

~200
Nottingham

Question 25

... attended St Peter's Fields Meeting ...

Answer 25

~100,000 1819

Question 26

first Corresponding Society established in ... in ...

Answer 26

Sheffield 1791

Question 27

(France) execution of ... in ...

Answer 27

Louis XIV 1793

Question 28

... local 'Association Movement' branches by ...

Answer 28

over 2,000 end of 1793

Question 29

Spa Fields Meeting ... ... people in crowd, some rioting & broke into gun shops -> ... introduced

Answer 29

1816 over 10,000 habeas corpus suspended & Gagging Acts (1817)

Question 30

radicals e.g. ... & .. more in-tune with mc opinion so advocated only moderate reform & constitutional methods

Answer 30

Francis Place Jeremy Bentham

Question 31

... & ... called for universal manhood suffrage, ... called for universal suffrage

Answer 31

Cobbett Cartwright Hunt

Question 32

... advocated use armed force

Answer 32

Thomas Spence & Spencean Philanthropic Society

Question 33

aftermath of Peterloo -> ... = paranoid legal crackdown on freedoms of public & press

Answer 33

Six Acts (1819)

Question 34

(anger over Peterloo massacre) Percy Bysshe Shelley's poem ... encouraged reformers to ...

Answer 34

'The Masque of Anarchy' 'rise like lions after slumber'

Question 35

(anger over Peterloo Massacre) William Hones' satirical poem ... with cartoon illustrations wildly popular

Answer 35

'The Political House that Jack Built'

Question 36

Royal Proclamation against Seditious Writings issued ...

Answer 36

1792

Question 37

radical leaders relied heavily on econ distress groups e.g. ...

Answer 37

handloom weavers & framework knitters

Question 38

(about hunger politics) Cobbett ... = ...

Answer 38

1820 'I defy you to agitate a man on a full stomach'

Question 39

(about hunger politics) Thomas Wooler ... = ... -> ceased publication of journal 'Black Dwarf' in ...

Answer 39

1824 '[there is] no public devotedly attached to the cause of parliamentary reform' 1824

Question 40

French Rev ...

Answer 40

1789

Question 41

Cobbett not willing to work within movement unless it was ... = Francis Place called Cobbett ... & Hunt ...

Answer 41

'subdued to his influence' 'unprincipled, cowardly, bully' 'impudent & vulgar'

Question 42

Hanpden Club Convention ... did more to expose divisions within movement than promote unity

Answer 42

1817