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key events britian
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- 11799 combination actbanned workers organisations
threat to craftsmen, traders etc.
making free trade illegal - 2Six ActsFollowing the Peterloo Massacre 1819, put in acts to prevent future disturbances, aimed a suppressing radical meetings
- 3State of Artificers1814 - reducing apprenticeship restrictions and threatened the statue of craftsmen
- 4defeat of Napoleon1815
- 5French Revolutionary War1793
- 6John Doherty - union of ...cotton spinners 1829 - strikes in lancashire for higher wages
- 7National association for the protection of labour1829 - 20 diff trades from Lancashire and Cheshire - 70 000 members
- 8The Merthyr RisingMay 1831 - coal and steel workers in south wales calling for reform against low wages and unemployment
20 people shot - 9The GNCTUgrand national consolidated trade union 1834 - 16 000 members but collapsed quickly, tailors, silk makers and shoe makers
- 10Tolpuddle Matyrsagricultural labours who were arrested and convicted for swearing a secret oath as members of the so of ag labours in 1833
severely treated, swing riots from cuts in wages - 11Launch of peoples Charterglasgow - 159 000 in crowd and 1.3m signature for petition
rejected voilence and had 401 branches - 12London Corresponding Society1792 Thomas Hardy - non violent, middle class, universal suffrage for males
94 - 3000 members
organised demonstration of 100 000, can mobilise people - 13Sheffield society for constitutional info:1791 25000 members
5000 - 6000 celebrate french victory at Valmy - 14Mutinies of 1797Spit head and Nore, blockade the thames - showing spread of ideas from LC's
floating republic - 15Loyalist Assosiationssold millions of pamphlets compared to pains 200 000
king was focal point for unity
Thewall - radical retired from public speaking because his lecture were continually disrupted by mobs, not as serious as appeared - 16spa fields riotsopen air meetings - 1816 with the plan to take over the bank of England
"this was all oliver" - 17Middleton Millthousands gathered and attacked it
10 killed
men with muskets had to be brought in, 12000 troops 17 hanged - 18Pentrich UprisingJUNE 1817
500 aim to prelude a national uprising, Brandreth murdered a farm servant who refused to let the movement through
4 - 19Peterloo Massacre16 August 1819
crowd of 60 000 gathered to support cause for parliamentary reform
11 deaths, 400 injuries - 20Cato Street Conspiracy1820 - plan to assassinate the entire tory cabinet, simultaneous rising to occur in London - more serious as more coordinated
Edwards kept the government informed - so where able to deal with threat as were informed - 21March of the BlanketeersMarch 1817 - disorganised march, 300 to deliver a petition to government, only one made it to london
- 22Queen Caroline Affair?
- 23Suspension of Habeaus CorpusMarch 1817 - saw the arrest of 44 leading radicals, Cobbet fled to the USA
- 24Seditious Meetings Act1817 - banned "reform meetings became far less frequent" - evans
- 25Reciprocity of Duties act1823 - attempt to relax navigation laws, free entry for foreign ships
colonies allowed to trade for the first time, shift from protectionist to more freedom - 26Repeal of the Combination Acts1824 - previously restricted TU, so now workers could defend their labour
BUT this was short term as freedom among workers caused strike action and the AMENDING ACT was intro 1825 making strikes almost impossible - 27Reform of the Penal Code1822-30
abolish over 180 capital offences - 28GAOLERS ACT1823
- 29Commutation Act1784 - reduced import duty on tea from 119% - 25%
inc imports by 13m - 30Consolidate fund act1787 - simplified collection of taxes, meaning their was reduced opportunity got corruption and the treasury has greater control
- 31Unlawful Oaths Act1797 - strengthened penalties against those trying to undermine authorities
- 32The Regency Crisis1789
- 33treasonable practices act1797 - resulted in no prosecutions therefore limited
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