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    British History: Chartism

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    R Religious Chapels encouraged to join in running their religious bodies‚ Sunday schools and day schools to provide education. M Military Crawshay says it’s a political uprising but the home office disagrees!! Chartism: Reverend J.R. Stevens His idea of Chartism is that everyone has equal rights and having the right to vote will help to improve people’s standard of life‚ living conditions‚ wages etc.. Universal suffrage “knife and fork question”. Chartists In Leicester‚ many chartists

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    Chartism

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    This lack of representation led them to have horrible working conditions‚ low wages‚ and widespread poverty throughout the working classes. The people became frusterated and during the 1830’s and 1840’s a new movement‚ Chartism‚ came about to solve their problems. Chartism was an attempt to link the economic plight of the working to a program of political reform. The Chartist movement is a complex movement that is viewed as both revolutionary by the Physical Force Chartists and the Middle Class

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    Causes of Chartism

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    were the causes of Chartism? The disappointment of the reform act played an important role in Chartism as the London Working Men’s Association were unhappy with the first reform act‚ in 1837 there was a petition by the London Working Men’s Association for another electoral reform which was supported by many radical MPs. This then led to the ‘Peoples charter’ which was a 6 point plan of what they wanted. The Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834 was also a contribution to Chartism as this act punished

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    19th Century Chartism

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    Chartism was a movement for political and social reform in the United Kingdom during the mid-19th century‚ between 1838 and 1859. It takes its name from the People’s Charter of 1838. Chartism was possibly the first mass working class labor movement in the world. Chartists were largely unsuccessful at convincing Parliament to reform the voting system of the mid-19th century; however‚ this movement caught the interest of the working class. The working class interest in politics from that point on aided

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    In this essay it will be necessary to examine the reason why Chartism failed during the 17th century. Chartists were formed during 1838‚ 6 years after the ‘great’ reform act was passed. When a group of men met in a local pub and were extremely angry about how badly the reform act was making so little changes‚ so they made a list of things they thought were eligible for voting rules and branded themselves ‘The Chartists’ and they were out to change how the MP’s were elected throughout Great Britain

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    Chartism was a campaign in support of a people’s charter it came about in 1838. Its main demand was a vote for all men and was launched by a radical group known as London Working Men’s Association (LWMA) and some radical MPs. It was supported by working classes and some middle classes. The Chartism movement grew out of its own possible success because it tore itself apart and there were many reasons behind its failure. It never managed to obtain parliamentary support for the Charter. In July‚ 1839

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    Assess the reasons why Chartism failed Chartism was the largest protest movement by working class people that Britain has ever seen‚ Chartist wanted a host of reforms which were highlighted in the Peoples Charter‚ which is were the Chartist name derives itself from. The People Charter of 1838 set about six points including: the vote for all adult males aged over 21‚ payment for MP’s‚ equal electoral districts‚ secret ballot‚ no property qualification for MP’s and annual general elections. The

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    The Agitation and Reform in the Nineteenth-Century Britain. What was Chartism and Why Did it Fail? Thisassignment will analysewhat Chartism was and why it failed. Firstly‚ we will consider what Chartism was‚ secondly we will focus on two of the six main reasons that Chartism failed‚ these will includethe lack of middle class support and the radical nature of the Chartist claims although the Disunited Members and Leader‚ the mid Victorian boom and the loyalty of the army and police force to

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    Chartism was a working-class political movement calling for the extension of the franchise that emerged in the mid-1830s. Motivated by a sense of ‘betrayal’ by the actions of the Whig government and the impact of a deep economic depression between 1837 and 1842‚ it saw political reform as essential if the living and working conditions of working people were to be improved. The power of the spoken and written word played a central role in Chartism and the foremost demagogue of the movement was Feargus

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    forward to achieving the votes of middle-class‚ and alienating the working-classes whose role in the political system was null and void. In principal many realised their interests were not at heart as many lost their MP’s. So‚ it’s not a surprise that Chartism arrived during the 1830’s because the 1832 Reform Act shadowed the working-classes‚ a predominantly large group who then founded the London Working Men’s Association‚ in order to further extend their rights.

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