Edexcel History 1. The Growth of Parliamentary Democracy

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How many seats did the King control around 1785 and of what type were they?

One of the 1819 Six Acts prohibiting the training of private armies

William Cobbett's working class radical and unstamped pamphlet sold from 1816 for twopence

A Right wing high Tory, Anglican faction, opposed to reform or Catholic emancipation

Constituency organisations that began to appear in the 1830's to organise and coordinate the Liberal Party

The Chartist wing led by Feargus O'Connor and James Bronterre O'Brien advocating for mass meetings, public demonstrations, and if necessary, violence for achieving reform

What percentage of seats were contested before the Great Reform Act?

A position requiring little or no work but providing financial benefit or status to its holder

A 1795 act passed during Pitt's terror forbidding meetings of more than 50 people for the purpose of discussing reform if unapproved by a magistrate

An 1819 meeting of 60,000 to 80,000 people in Manchester being addressed by Henry Hunt and Richard Carlile, demanding reform, charged by cavalry to disperse them, killing 18 and injuring hundreds

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An 1830 - 1831 Belgian liberal and nationalist revolt against Dutch rule

An 1824 radical publication founded by Jeremy Bentham as the mouthpiece of the Philosophical Radicals to challenge the Tory 'Quarterly Review' and Whig 'Edinburgh Review'

How many people had been executed across France by July 1794?

Nickname of Lord John Russell given to him in 1837

A failed attempt to push through parliamentary reform by Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger dissuading him from any future attempts

The first ever motion of parliamentary reform

The right to vote based on being the head of a household

A 1791 document published by Thomas Paine defending the French Revolution, selling 200,000 copies in a couple of years

Unsuccessful prosecutions of leaders of the London Corresponding Society in 1794

An 1815 protectionist law on corn requiring domestic corn to reach a price of 80 shillings a quarter before foreign corn could be imported