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Edexcel History 1. The Growth of Parliamentary Democracy

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Constituency organisations that began to appear in the 1830's to organise and coordinate the Liberal Party
Liberal or Reform Associations
How many seats were there in the House of Commons around 1785?
558
An agreement of moderate; Whigs, Radicals, and Irish Nationalists of the House of Commons in February 1835 to coordinate opposition against Peel's Conservative Party
Lichfield House Compact
A bill proposed by Lord John Russell that repealed the Test Act and Corporation Act
Sacramental Test Act
A campaigner for universal suffrage, press freedom, atheism, and equality between the sexes
Richard Carlile (1790 - 1843)
An 1830 - 1831 Belgian liberal and nationalist revolt against Dutch rule
Belgian Revolution
A constituency before the Great Reform Act with a wide franchise such as Preston where all adult males could vote
Open Constituency
A series of mass riots over the stalling of the third reform bill prompting fears of a potential revolution
Days of May
Richard Carlile's 1819 working class radical publication
The Republican
An 1839 petition with over 1 million signatures written by the National Convention of Delegates on the advice of Thomas Attwood and his Birmingham Political Union
First Chartist Petition
A gentleman's club formed in 1836 to oppose the Conservative Party, and coordinate reformism and Whig and later Liberal activity that became the organisational headquarters of the Liberal Party
Reform Club
A person appointed to office as a result of and in exchange for mutual support between them and the crown or ministers
Placeman
A number of 1819 acts meant to suppress meetings calling for parliamentary reform
Six Acts
A radical Chartist newspaper founded in 1837 by Feargus O'Connell of his position 'peaceable if we can, forcibly if we must'
Northern Star
How large was the electorate in terms of number of people around 1785?
250,000 out of 8,000,000
A society founded in 1792 by Thomas Hardy promoting universal manhood suffrage, annual elections, and the abolition of rotten boroughs, through pamphleteering and petitioning
London Corresponding Society
One of the 1819 Six Acts that extended taxes on newspapers and pamphlets and ended the loophole of unstamped publications
Newspaper and Stamp Duties Act
Those Liberal candidates and MP's with a genuinely working class background
Lib-Lab
A working class organisation founded by William Lovett, Francis Place, and Henry Hetherington in 1836 seeking to propogate ideas of greater working class political influence
London Working Men's Association
A proclamation prohibiting seditious meetings and publications
Royal Proclamation of May 1792
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