Edexcel History 1. The Growth of Parliamentary Democracy

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Those skilled working class members deemed respectable enough to be enfranchised

One of four liberal Tories appointed by Lord Liverpool to government between 1822 - 23 who served as Home Secretary from 1822 - 1830 and Prime Minister from 1834 - 1834 and 1841 - 1846

A society formed in 1769 in support of John Wilkes and freedom of speech

Established regimes in need of reform

A mostly working class organisation founded in 1864, supported by the trade union movement in campaigning for universal manhood suffrage and secret ballots

An 1829 act allowing for Catholic's to sit in the Houses of Parliament

The name for the revolutionary government of France

An association founded in 1877 on the work of the Birmingham Caucus and radical Joseph Chamberlain to further organise the still somewhat disparate Liberals around radicalism

Groups formed to correspond with one another and revolutionary groups in France in support of radicalism

Nickname of Lord John Russell given to him in 1837

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

A liberal advocate of political reform, economist, and utilitarian associate of Jeremy Bentham

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 1835 act that made town councils into elected bodies with an electorate consisting of all male ratepayers

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

A 1689 act that; abolished the prerogative of the monarch to rule by decree, compelled the monarch to consult with Parliament, and made such that elections, and speech and debate in Parliament ought to be free

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

An 1816 armed riot of radicals - particularly Spenceans - after a meeting addressed by Henry Hunt

An 1839 petition with over 1 million signatures written by the National Convention of Delegates on the advice of Thomas Attwood and his Birmingham Political Union

Two 1800 acts uniting the Kingdom of Ireland and Kingdom of Great Britain into the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland