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Chartism was a working class movement which emerged in 1836 in London. It expanded rapidly across the country and was most active between 1838 and 1848. The aim of the Chartists was to gain...
Jun 20, 2011 · By Stephen Roberts. Last updated 2011-06-20. In 1848 the British establishment watched in horror as revolution swept across Europe. In London, Chartist leaders delivered a petition to Parliament...
The Chartist movement was a mass movement driven by the working class, following the failure of the 1832 Reform Act to extend the vote. It got its name from the People’s Charter which listed the six main aims of the movement. Jessica Brain. 12 min read.
The Chartists were a group of people who felt strongly that this was unfair to the remaining 82 per cent of men. They set about trying to change the political system. The Chartists’ aim was to...
Mar 25, 2019 · Chartism was the first truly national mass workers’ movement in history. The three Chartist petitions that advocated suffrage reform attracted millions of signatures and, set against the backdrop of a revolutionary Europe in 1848, the movement became a staple of working-class life in the mid-19th century.
Chartism was a mass movement for democratic rights that developed in the second half of the 1830s following the Great Reform Act of 1832. The Chartists were so called because of the six points of their Charter: 1. A vote for every male over 21. 2. A ballot held in secret. 3. No property qualification. 4. Payment of MPs. 5. Equal constituencies. 6.
May 11, 2018 · chartism. views 3,944,326 updated May 11 2018. chartism (1837–54) was the first attempt to build an independent political party representing the interests of the labouring and unprivileged sections of the nation. For many of its followers chartism was basically ‘a knife and fork question’.
