Industrial Revolution

• The goal of the chartists was to gain political rights for the working class
• The Newport Rising occurred 4th November 1839 in Wales
• 10,000 supporters attended the Newport Rising
• The purpose of the Newport Rising was to call on the government to release Chartists trapped in a Westgate hotel
• The Newport Rising resulted in 22 Chartist deaths and 50 wounded Chartists
• 6 Main aims of the chartist:

  1.A vote for all men (over 21)

  2.Secret ballot 

  3.No property qualification to become an MP 

  4.Payments for MPS 

  5.Electoral districts / Constituencies should be of equal size

  6.Annual elections for Parliament
• The Chartists presented three petitions to Parliament to make their six-point charter law. The first in 1839, the second in 1842 and the last in 1848. Each petition was rejected. The final Chartist petition of 1848, it was claimed, had six million signatures.
• The Bull Ring Riot occured after the 1839 petition on the 4th July 1839
• The Chartists final national meeting was in 1858. No goals were achieved during the movement.
• The chartists legacy lived on with all of their goals present in Britain today. Excluding the annual elections
• The Peterloo Massacre resulted in the death of 18 and the wounding of 700.
• The Peterloo Massacre occurred on the 16th of August, 1819. 30-150,000 young men, women and children attended at St Peter’s Field
• Henry Hunt was a British politician and the orator who spoke for the crowd at Peterloo. He advocated for universal voting
• The huge crowd assembled at St Peters Field for voting rights, freedom and justice.
• After the Peterloo Massacre Henry Hunt was charged to 2 years in Prison and the government banned meetings of more than 50 people at any given time.
• 1500 civil officers were called to the Peterloo Massacre after the government deemed the rally beyond civil control. Despite the protest being peaceful
• Henry Hunt and the protesters at the Peterloo Massacre were there standing to demand the reform of the representation of parliament.
• The protesters at Peterloo wanted to

  1.let every single man, regardless of income and background vote

  2.for elections to be held every year.

  3.for the elections to be secretive,
• The six acts were composed of:

  The Training Prevention Act,

  The Seizure of Arms Act

  The Seditious Meetings Act

  The Blasphemous and Seditious Libels Act

  The Misdemeanours Act

  The Newspaper Stamp Duties Act
• The Six Acts were a set of laws that were created as a reaction towards the incident of the Peterloo Massacre.
• The Six Acts were designed to minimise disturbances, and also to keep radical propaganda and organisations behind them in check.
• Luddite riots began at a place called Nottingham in November 1811 
• The Luddites were ordinary people in the early 1800s who were scared of new technology taking their jobs. These people were believed to be British weavers and textile workers who opposed the increased use of mechanised looms and knitting frames.
• The luddites protested by sending threatening letters to employers, breaking into factories and destroying the new machines. They attacked employers, and magistrates even getting into fights with government soldiers.
• The Napoleonic War took place from 1802-1812 creating economic difficulties across the country, disrupting trade and playing a huge role in the creation of the Luddites.
• Tha last luddites act was the Pentrich Rising. Held in 1817 and led Jeremiah Brandreth, unemployed Nottingham stockinger and ex-Luddite
• The luddite movement was snuffed out by state violence in 1817
• Ned Ludd is a fictional character created by Luddites. He was known as their leader and the Luddites followed him in his practice.
•  Luddites believed in opposing machinery to help prevent poverty across the nation.
• The Blanket meeting was held in St Peter's Field right before the marchers and their leaders set off to discuss logistics.
• The Blanket Meeting - 25 000 people flocked to watch Bagguley and Drummond as they gathered their "army" of 5000. 
• Due to the Riot Act meetings were restricted to 12 people at a time. The blanket meeting broke this act causing 27 to be arrested, including the leaders Bagguley and Drummond
• After losing their leaders, the Blanketeers marched on through the rain but the cavalry, a unit of troops on horseback, pursued them. On their journey to Stockport, many marchers backed out, scattered or were arrested. The 200 of them who made it to Stockport were also arrested.. However the jails were so full many "offenders" were sent home.
• The Blanketeers were created in early March 1817 by Samuel Drummond and John Bagguley.
• The blanketeers were created to organise a hunger march to draw attention to the issues surrounding cotton workers.
• They Blanketeers proposed that the workers in the textile industry would march in groups of ten with a blanket on their back, 1, to symbolise their jobs and 2, to keep them warm. These people would also have a petition to the Prince Regent on their arm. 
• After the Blanketeers collected 5000 weavers and spinners, the group set off on March 10 with approximately 20-30 thousand onlookers.
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