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2 days ago · The campaign for the ‘People’s Charter’, a democratic movement which thrived in the decade after 1838, was probably the most important mass movement in British history. Chartism captivated contemporaries and has had a magnetic attraction for historians, generating over 100 books and articles in the last decade alone.
1 day ago · Born out of the People's Charter of 1838, which demanded more political rights for ordinary citizens, Chartism called for many features of elections we still have in 2024 — namely secret ballots, paid MPs, and equal constituency sizes.
3 days ago · In early January 1838, the president proclaimed neutrality in the Canadian independence issue, a declaration which Congress endorsed by passing a neutrality law designed to discourage the participation of American citizens in foreign conflicts.
- Andrew Jackson
- William Henry Harrison
3 days ago · By 1838, the British were selling roughly 1,400 tons of opium per year to China. Legalization of the opium trade was the subject of ongoing debate within the Chinese administration, but a proposal to legalise the narcotic was repeatedly rejected, and in 1838 the government began to actively sentence Chinese drug traffickers to death.
- 4 September 1839 – 29 August 1842, (2 years, 11 months, 3 weeks and 4 days)
4 days ago · The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut is the official title for the compact agreed to by the freemen of the towns of Windsor, Hartford, and Wethersfield in 1638–39. Source: F. N. Thorpe, ed., The Federal and State Constitutions, Colonial Charters, and Other Organic Laws . . . , 7 vols. (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1909), 1:519 ...
2 days ago · Henry Clay. Henry Clay Sr. (April 12, 1777 – June 29, 1852) was an American lawyer and statesman who represented Kentucky in both the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. He was the seventh House speaker as well as the ninth secretary of state. He unsuccessfully ran for president in the 1824, 1832, and 1844 elections.
1 day ago · A hand on a whale boat might earn 15.4¢ per day, but end up in debt by the end of the journey for food consumed. Source: U.S. Dept of Labor. Women's wages in the 1830s. Federal report tells wages and working conditions for women in the early 1800s. Wages in the 1830s are discussed in general on pages 23, 26, 27.
