The Growth of Parliamentary Democracy: Chartism and Later Reform

Question 1

What were the Chartist Demands?

Answer 1

Secret Ballot
Universal Male Suffrage
Annual Parliament
No property requirement for MPs
Pay for MPs
Equal Representation

Question 2

Name two moral force Chartists

Answer 2

William Lovett and Thomas Attwood

Question 3

Name two physical force Chartists

Answer 3

Feargus O’Connor and George Julian Harvey

Question 4

When was the first Chartist petition presented and how many signatures did it have?

Answer 4

1839 and 1,200,000

Question 5

When was the Newport Rising, how many were involved and how many were killed?

Answer 5

1839, 5000 miners, 20 dead

Question 6

How many Chartists were imprisoned in 1839-41

Answer 6

500

Question 7

When was the second Chartist petition presented?

Answer 7

1842, with 3 million signatures

Question 8

Who set up the Land Plan and when?

Answer 8

Feargus O’Connor, 1845

Question 9

How many subscribers did the Land Plan have by 1848?

Answer 9

70,000

Question 10

When was the Kennington Common Rally and final Chartist petition presentation?

Answer 10

1848

Question 11

Why did Chartism fail?

Answer 11

Leaders: Charismatic but not practical
Division in moral/physical
Too ambitious
Middle Class put off by violence
Government determination to maintain the status quo

Question 12

When was the Corn Law repealed?

Answer 12

1846

Question 13

When was the Ten Hour Act passed?

Answer 13

1847

Question 14

How many soldiers did the government draft in 1848 to deal with disorder in the UK?

Answer 14

8,000 soldiers, 150,000 Special Constables

Question 15

How did William Gladstone get his seat?

Answer 15

From Duke of Newcastle, who controlled the constituency of Newark

Question 16

What did the 1835 Municipal Corporations act change?

Answer 16

Made local councils elected (including all men)

Question 17

In what years did Lord Russell propose to lower the borough qualification for voting and to what?

Answer 17

1854 and 1860 (from £10-£6)

Question 18

Which MP became convinced of the working classes’ right to vote in the 1850s?

Answer 18

William Gladstone

Question 19

In what year was the National Reform Union created and who were its members?

Answer 19

1864, progressive middle classes

Question 20

What were the aims of the National Reform Union?

Answer 20

Secret Ballot, all male rate payers had vote, equal representation

Question 21

What was the working class version of the Reform Union and when was it established?

Answer 21

The Reform League, 1865

Question 22

In what year did the anti-reformist Lord Palmerston die?

Answer 22

1865

Question 23

Gladstone, Chancellor of the Exchequer proposed a moderate reform bill in what year?

Answer 23

1866

Question 24

What did Gladstone propose in his reform bill?

Answer 24

Property requirement £7 a year in boroughs and reducing rent for counties from £50 to £16

Question 25

Who argued the working class were not intelligent enough to vote in 1866?

Answer 25

Robert Lowe (MP)

Question 26

When were the Hyde Park Riots?

Answer 26

1866

Question 27

Benjamin Disraeli (Tory Chancellor of the Exchequer 1867) put forward his own bill proposing that…

Answer 27

45 seats should be taken from boroughs with

Question 28

In total there were how many voters after 1867?

Answer 28

2.46 million