Edexcel History 1. The Growth of Parliamentary Democracy

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A bill proposed by Lord John Russell that repealed the Test Act and Corporation Act

A Tory amendment to the Great Reform Act that enfranchised tenants-at-will paying annual rent of £50+, often under the influence of Tories

A 1782 act that excluded those under government commission or contract from sitting as MP's

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'

Repressive measures instituted by Pitt's government during the wars with France in the mid to late 1790's

William Hone's 1817 working class, radical publication

A radical Chartist newspaper founded in 1837 by Feargus O'Connell of his position 'peaceable if we can, forcibly if we must'

A local Liberal association founded in 1865 and refounded in 1868, successful in building a mass membership and securing all three Birmingham seats for the Liberals in the 1868 and 1874 general elections

An 1867 federation of Conservative working men's associations and Conservative and Constitutional Associations which helped to further organise Conservative Party activity

A period of violent upheaval during the French Revolution

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

An 1832 act that enfranchised male owners or occupiers of property rated at £10+, with the addition of £50+ rent payers in the County's, redistributed seats from most rotten and pocket boroughs, and introduced voter registration

Earl Grey's son-in-law and leader of the reform committee for the Great Reform Act

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

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

An 1834 act that mandated residence within a workhouse to be eligible for poor relief

A highly radical Whig politician and MP whom strongly supported both the American and French revolutions

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

A 1794 - 1807 document by Thomas Paine promoting deism and challenging many foundations of Christian belief

A collection of letters published in the Public Advertiser between 1769 and 1772 attacking the King and Parliament, now widely attributed to Philip Francis