Edexcel History 1. The Growth of Parliamentary Democracy

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The financial inducement and/or influence of aristocrats and magnates (mostly peers) over the composition of the House of Commons

Those Liberal candidates and MP's with a genuinely working class background

An amended bill introduced to the House of Commons in December 1831 held up in the House of Lords prompting Earl Grey to resign and the Duke of Wellington to be invited to form a government

A moderate Whig reform movement represented by the likes of Lord John Russell and the Edinburgh Review

Founder of the radical 'Political Register' and associate of Henry Hunt known for their showmanship in public addressed to the working class

A mostly middle class organisation founded in 1864 that campaigned for male ratepayers to be given the vote, equal seat distribution, and secret ballots

An early corresponding society founded in 1791 that waived entry and subscription fees, claiming 2,500 members in six months

What was the peak membership of the London Corresponding Society

An 1866 bill introduced to Parliament by William Gladstone to moderately extend the franchise that was defeated by the Conservatives and Adullamites

The parallel act to the 1867 Reform Act which redistributed 45 seats with under 10,000 voters, 25 to the County's, and 20 to the Borough's

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A radical newspaper founded in 1762 by John Wilkes and Charles Churchill in response to a pro-government newspaper of a similar name

The 1768 shooting by troops of people protesting the imprisonment of John Wilkes for libel

A 1789 French revolutionary document espousing the right to; liberty, equality, property, security, resistance to oppression, and freedom of belief and of speech

A 1782 bill that abolished a number of sinecures

The adaptation of one's actions to take advantage of a situation for personal or group benefit

A Yorkshire clergyman and reformer who founded the Yorkshire Association in 1779

The Foxite son of a baronet, and radical leader in the House of Commons

The party agent appointed by Benjamin Disraeli who established the Conservative Central Office in the 1870's and united party institutions, formulating success in the 1874 general election

A cordwainer, reformer, and founder of the London Corresponding Society, unsuccessfully charged with high treason in 1794 for trying to form a national convention

The economic depression in the UK from 1812 - 1823/22 caused by mass dembolisation of soldiers and sailors into the labour market, a legacy of high taxation, and an end of government war contracts