Radical reformers knowledge organiser

Question 1

…’s threshing machine in …

Answer 1

Andrew Meikle
1784

Question 2

Factory Age = industrial output increased … by …

Answer 2

15 fold
1801

Question 3

Manchester had pop. … by … = known as …

Answer 3

75,000
1801
Cottonopolis

Question 4

(early 1800s) cotton = … all B. exports

Answer 4

70%

Question 5

(Old Corruption) Cornwall = pop. … & … MPs

Answer 5

300,000
42

Question 6

rotten boroughs e.g. … felt into sea

Answer 6

Old Dunwich

Question 7

(Old Corruption) only … adult pop. enfranchised

Answer 7

~3%

Question 8

no uniformity between boroughs e.g. (4)

Answer 8

Scot & Lot
Potwalloper
Open
Corporation

Question 9

cost … to contest to become MP

Answer 9

£20,000

Question 10

French Rev.

Answer 10

1789

Question 11

Joseph … known as …, inspired counter-revolutionary attack by … mob in …

Answer 11

Priestley
Gunpowder Joe
Church & King
Apr. 1791

Question 12

Dr Richard … praised F. Rev. in his … & ignited pamphlet war

Answer 12

Price
‘A Discourse on the love of our country Sermon’

Question 13

Edmund … MP with … Party, wrote …, & referenced swinish multitudes, pamphlet sold … copies

Answer 13

Burke
Whig
‘Reflections on the Revolution in France 1790’
17,500

Question 14

Thomas … wrote … = sold … copies (inspired American Declaration of Independence … with his …)

Answer 14

Paine
The Rights of Man (1791)
200,000
1776
‘Common Sense’

Question 15

Sheffield Corresponding Society established in … & had … members (largest) -> in … …. Sheffielders signed petition for reform

Answer 15

Dec. 1791
2,000
1793
10,000

Question 16

London Corresponding Society established … by …

Answer 16

1792
Thomas Hardy

Question 17

National Convention in … held in …

Answer 17

1792
Edinburgh

Question 18

Third British Convention in … -> … & … … transportation for sedition

Answer 18

1793
Gerrald Maragot
Thomas Muir
14 years

Question 19

Thomas … published … periodical, arrested & imprisoned in … due to suspension of … & for selling seditious publications in …

Answer 19

Spence
Pigs’ Meat
May 1794
habeas corpus
1801

Question 20

William … established Political Register in …, circulation of … by …, arrested in … for …

Answer 20

Cobbett
1802
4,000
1806
1819
2 years

Question 21

loyalist backlash - Loyalist Associations???, … local branches by …

Answer 21

check notes
2,000
1793

Question 22

(…’s Reign of Terror) … authorised spies, censorship & infiltration of radical groups

Answer 22

William Pitt
Royal Proclamation against Seditious Writings

Question 23

habeas corpus suspended …

Answer 23

May 1794 - July 1795

Question 24

… = arrest individuals based on what they wrote

Answer 24

Treasonable Practices Act

Question 25

... = notify for groups of over ...

Answer 25

Seditious Meetings Act 50

Question 26

... ... = all printing presses had to be registered

Answer 26

Newspaper Publication Act 1798 CONFIRM

Question 27

(after war in 1815) unemp. due to mechanisation e.g. ... & ...

Answer 27

cotton-gin spinning jenny

Question 28

Luddites suppressed after several executions due to ... ...

Answer 28

Frame Breaking Act & Malicious Damage Act 1813

Question 29

(after war) demobilisation of ... soldiers & sailors

Answer 29

300,000

Question 30

(after war) bad harvests in ...

Answer 30

1816 & 1817

Question 31

Corn Law ... banned import foreign corn

Answer 31

1815

Question 32

... formed Hampden Club in ..., toured country ...

Answer 32

Major John Cartwright 1811 1812-15

Question 33

... Hampden Clubs in Lancashire alone by ...

Answer 33

40 1817

Question 34

condensed Political Register known as ..., cost ..., sold ... copies in ...

Answer 34

Two-Penny Trash 2d 200,000 2 months

Question 35

(after war) mass public meetings pioneered by ...

Answer 35

Henry Orator Hunt

Question 36

Spa Fields meeting 1 ... = ... refused to see Hunt & accept his petition

Answer 36

Nov 1816 George IV

Question 37

Spa Fields 2nd meeting ... = ... people (largest gathering in London) & ... rioted & looted

Answer 37

2nd Dec 1816 10,000 Spenceans

Question 38

gov. response to Spa Fields Meeting (4 things)

Answer 38

suspended habeas corpus Gagging Acts (1817) Treason Acts (1817) Seditious Meetings Act (1817)

Question 39

... established the ... = spies & informers

Answer 39

Lord Liverpool Committee of Secrecy

Question 40

Pentridge Uprising ... = ... spy & agent provocateur -> ... armed men set off to march on ... led by ..., leaders beheaded & ... transported

Answer 40

1817 Oliver 200 Nottingham Jeremiah Brandeth 30

Question 41

St Peter's Fields Meeting ... = ... men, women & children, ... killed & ... injured

Answer 41

1819 100,000 11 400

Question 42

(consequence of Peterloo Massacre) ... = successfully repressed radical activity for a decade

Answer 42

Six Acts 1819

Question 43

(after Peterloo Massacre) Percy Bysshe Shelley wrote ..., William ... wrote ...

Answer 43

The Masque of Anarchy Hone The Political House that Jack Built 1819