Edexcel History 1. The Growth of Parliamentary Democracy

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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

The 1768 shooting by troops of people protesting the imprisonment of John Wilkes for libel

A meeting of party politicians, and a term used disparagingly by Benjamin Disraeli and the Conservatives to compare populist American parties and the Birmingham Liberal Association

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

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

When was the Glorious Revolution?

Extraparliamentary popular radicals unconcerned by the direction taken by the French Revolution, with about 80 clubs by the mid 1790's

1780 Anti-Catholic riots initiated by the head of the Protestant Association Lord George Gordon in the wake of the 1778 Papists Act from which John Wilkes defended the Bank of England

The economic depression in the UK from 1812 - 1823/22 caused by mass dembolisation of soldiers and sailors into the labour market, a legacy of high taxation, and an end of government war contracts

A Whig politician, prominent reformer, member of the reform committee during the Great Reform Act, and Prime Minister from 1846 - 1852, and 1865 - 1866

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A highly successful 1792 association founded by placeman John Reeves promoting loyalism to the government and suppressing radical societies

A 1797 act passed during Pitt's terror making it a capital offence to insight servicemen into mutiny

Prime Minister between 1770 and 1782 who was forced out by a motion of no confidence and George III after the British defeat in the American War of Independence at Yorktown

A person in receipt of and reliant on a royal or government pension

A group of associations promoting parliamentary reform founded in the wake of the formation of the Yorkshire Association

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

A middle class, radical reformer, founder of the Birmingham Political Union, and pro Great Reform Act campaigner

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 radical MP and mover behind the repeal of the Combination Acts

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