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Politics, Protest and Reform in Wales and England c.1780-1880

Chartism in Wales and England

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  • AS Unit 1

Overview

Six points of the People's Charter, northern Star and three leaders convicted after the Newport Rising.

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Who drafted the People's Charter, and when was it published?

Key term

List the six points of the People's Charter.

Key term

Why did Chartists want MPs to be paid?

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  1. 1

    Who drafted the People's Charter, and when was it published?

    Model answer

    William Lovett of the London Working Men's Association, with help from Francis Place, published it in 1838.

  2. 2

    List the six points of the People's Charter.

    Model answer

    Universal manhood suffrage, the secret ballot, no property qualification for MPs, payment of MPs, equal electoral districts and annual parliaments.

  3. 3

    Why did Chartists want MPs to be paid?

    Model answer

    Without a salary only men of independent means could sit, so payment was necessary if working men were ever to represent their own class.

  4. 4

    Give three causes of Chartism.

    Model answer

    Disappointment at exclusion from the 1832 franchise, hatred of the new Poor Law of 1834, and the trade depression and unemployment that began in 1837.

  5. 5

    What was the Northern Star?

    Model answer

    The Chartist newspaper founded by Feargus O'Connor in 1837, which at its height sold tens of thousands of copies a week and held the movement together across the country.

  6. 6

    Distinguish moral force from physical force Chartism.

    Model answer

    Moral force Chartists such as Lovett relied on petition, education and respectability to win over opinion, while physical force Chartists argued that the Charter would only be granted under the threat of armed resistance.

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