Power and the People

• General Strike Consequences


  Gov very prepared

  TUC ended Strike and workers left to fight alone

  TUC membership dropped

  showed worker solidarity in the long term
• General Strike event

  Started peacefully

  Clashes between police and protesters

  Miners derailed flying Scotsman

  TUC negotiated with the gov
• General strike causes

  Germany paid reparations in coal so price dropped

  Workers economic conditions worsened

  Subsidies ended 1926
• General Strike date


  1926
• Women's rights consequences

  1923 matrimonial causes Act

  1928 equal franchise act

  1970 equal pay act
• Women's rights event

  Millicent Fawcett NUWSS 1897 peaceful protest

  Emmeline Pankhurst WSPU more violent
• Women's Rights causes

  Mary Wollstonecraft introduced Rights for women in 1792

  Few people campaigning for women

  Excluded from 1876 Reform Act
• New Unionism consequences

  Protection for less skilled workers

  Ability to put pressure on the government

  Set precedent for the future

  E.g. General strike
• New Unionism event

  Less organised workers

  Much lower subscription fees

  Strikes as only weapons
• New Unionism causes

  Growing working classes

  Rich moving to suburbs so areas full of working classes

  Gal between rich and poor increasing
• New Unionism date

  1880s
• New Model Unions consequences

  Set precedent for new unionism
• New Model Unions event

  Skilled workers paying high subscription fees

  Membership increase in good times
• New Model Unions causes

  Tolpuddle martyres

  Workers banded together for protection
• New Model Unions date

  1850s and 60s
• Tolpuddle Martyrs consequences

  Doesn't rest if lives campaigning for workers rights

  Largely organised by workers banding together

  Festival each year with politicians
• Tolpuddle Martyrs event

  Meetings discovered and sentenced to 7 years transportation under 1799 unlawful oaths

  April 1834 - 200,000 demanded their release

  Granted 1837
• Tolpuddle Martyrs causes

  Wages cut for 3rd time - wanted rise

  Combination laws repealed so trade unions legal

  Swore oath to join
• Tolpuddle Martyrs date

  1836
• Chartists consequences

  Gov. "Repression and no concessions"

  Transportation to Australia 1848: 102

  More men vote - 1872 secret ballot

  50 years 5/6 acts

  Seed for 1866 reform movement
• Chartists event

  People's charter (6 acts)

  Vote > 21

  Lovett peaceful

  Fergus O'Connor: violent

  Petition 1848: 85,000

  1839 Newport rising ~ killed 22
• Chartists causes

  Increase political & economic tension

  Working class not helped
• Chartists date

  1838-48
• Great Reform Act consequences

  Voting no. 435,000 > 652,000

  Middle class benefit

  Working class excluded

  No secret ballots

  1:7 men and no women
• Great Reform Act event

  56 locations lost MP

  30 small 2 > 1 MP

  London & growing more MPs

  Vote to >£150
• Great reform act causes

  Tory Gov. anti reform

  1830s Whig gov.

  Tried to pass 3x

  Blocked by HoL

  Whig PM asked more Whig lords

  Scared HoL passing
• Great Reform Act date


  1832
• Peterloo consequences

  Gov: 6 acts:

  Magistrats search arms

  Public meetings <50
• Peterloo event

  Manchester 100,000 head Henry Hunt "reform"

  Riot act read ~ militia

  11 died 400 injured

  Journalists arrested, leaders treason

  Militia praised
• Peterloo causes

  Small no. people can vote

  Hustings

  Towns with no MPs

  Rotten Boroughs

  Corruption

  No MP wages
• Peterloo date

  1819
• American Revolution consequences

  America Independent

  Parliament Bill "no further attempt to subdue the Americas by force"
• American Revolution event

  Colonies no match for English

  French support colonies

  Yorktown surrender 8000 troops and
• American Revolution causes

  Mercantile System

  Stamp Act 1765

  7 years War - needed protection

  Tax no Rep
• American Revolution date

  Surrender 1781
• Cromwell's Republic consequences

  Unpopular by rule end

  1660 Charles restored

  Glorious Revolution 1688

  Parliament not king rules
• Cromwell's Republic event

  Irish rebellion crushed

  Levellers imprisoned

  Diggers Marginalised
• Cromwell's Republic date/causes

  1653 ~ seized power
• English Civil War consequences

  King executed

  England commonwealth

  Monarchy abolished
• English Civil War event

  New model army ~ Feb 1655 Nasbey

  Pitney debates: wages, indemnity, king, voting, religion