Edexcel History 1. The Growth of Parliamentary Democracy

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A 1782 act that deprived Customs and Excise Officers, and Post Office workers of the vote as they were deemed to be under government influence

An unofficial Conservative organisation open to both men and women, that effectively adapted the party to the growth of democracy

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

A term for that published through a legal loophole that exempted publications containing only news commentary from a tax designed to make radical papers prohibitively expensive

A borough in which only those whom owned freehold property of a certain rateable value could vote

Loyalist clubs formed to promote loyalism during the wars with France

Riots in response to the failure of the second reform bill with rioters looting and burning within the city, successfully holding it for three days

A group formed in 1780 by radicals John Cartwright and John Jebb calling for radical reform as published in Cartwright's 1776 book 'Take Your Choice'

Liberal Tories and followers of Canning and his successors calling for reform

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Unsuccessful prosecutions of leaders of the London Corresponding Society in 1794

An 1858 act that abolished the property requirements for MP's

An 1830 revolution in France that overthrew the Bourbon monarchy establishing the House of Orleans, and enforcing popular sovereignty

A party originating with the Cavaliers and later in support of James II which had been locked out of power during the reigns of George I and II, much linked to the Church of England

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

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

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

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

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

A classic study by Friedrich Engels written between 1842-44, published in German in 1845, and in English in 1887, heavily critical of the effects of industrialisation on the health and condition of the working classes particularly in southern Lancashire