Edexcel History 1. The Growth of Parliamentary Democracy

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An act passed in the House of Commons in September 1831 but rejected by the House of Lords resulting in protests particularly from Thomas Attwood's Birmingham Political Union

A radical MP and mover behind the repeal of the Combination Acts

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

A failed 1817 armed uprising of 200 - 300 men in Derbyshire seeking to march on London to demand reform

The term used to describe King George III for allowing the Tories to return to government and thus for representing all viewpoints as opposed to just the Whig's

A 1661 act preventing those who do not swear the Oath of Supremacy from taking public office

A number of 1819 acts meant to suppress meetings calling for parliamentary reform

A movement opposed to the expenditure of the salaries of placeman, pensioners, and claimants on the crown, as vote buying and a shoring up of royal power

Anti-industrial protesters particularly textile workers who rioted and broke machinery, with a resurgence between 1815 and 1817

The name for 2,000 local branches of the Association for Preserving Liberty and Property that received considerable support from Anglican groups

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One of the 1819 Six Acts banning meetings of more than 50 people for the puspose of discussing reform if unapproved by a magistrate

An organisation formed in 1831 by Francis Place to protest the failure of the second reform bill

A borough seat with very few voters such as Old Sarum, Wiltshire, or Dunwich, Suffolk

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

Tory Prime Minister from 1828 to 1830 and briefly in 1834, who failed to unite the party

Loyalist riots in 1791 in Birmingham opposed to dissenters and Joseph Priestley, particularly his support for the French Revolution

A founder of the Society for Constitutional Information and of the first Hampden Club in 1812

Two pro-government newspapers founded in 1792 and 1793 respectively

A radical who proposed common ownership of land vested in the parishes and universal male and female suffrage

Radicals within Parliament consisting of Independent Radicals and Foxites (Advanced Whigs), with seats particularly in Westminster, Southwark, Norwich, and the Midlands