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The
Chartists
Chartists
were people who wanted the 'People's Charter' to be
adopted. The Peoples Charter was a document that set
out reforms that ordinary working class and middle
class people wanted the government to make.
The
Peoples Charter said that there should be:
-
EQUAL
ELECTORAL DISTRICTS
-
ABOLITION
OF THE PROPERTY QUALIFICATIONS FOR M.P'S
-
UNIVERSAL
MANHOOD SUFFRAGE
-
ANNUAL
PARLIAMENTS
-
VOTE
BY BALLOT
-
THE
PAYMENT OF M.P'S
The
introduction of these reforms would provide equality
and give the ordinary man a say in the way the nation
was run. The Charter was widely supported, with a
petition of six million being sent to Parliament on
one occasion. Use the links below to find out how
the Chartists pushed for reform, and consider how
successful the protest movement was.
The
protest movement can be split into two distinct groups,
the Moral
Force chartists and the Physical
Force chartists. These groups attempted to
force reform in distinctively different ways. The
Moral
Force chartists intended peaceful protest, the
Physical
force chartists, as the name suggests, intended
to force change through use of physical force and
violence.
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