did people get more of a say by the start of 20th cent?

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    • The rapid movement of people meant that the old system of constituencies was quickly out of date
    • This resulted in rotten boroughs (like Old Sarum) where very low populations had the right to send two MP's to parliament while cities like Manchester had no MPs
    • Only 2% of the population had the right to vote and voting was done publicly so was very open to corruption
    • In the early 18th century protests like the peaceful gathering at Petersfield's in Manchester were violently supressed in the famous Peterloo massacre – this made it hard for people to campaign
    • In 1832 the government started to be more sympathetic to calls for reform and passed the Great Reform Act
    • It got rid of some rotten boroughs and gave an extra 250,000 people the vote
    • It was not until 1918 that some women and all men over 21 got the vote but there was steady change as livening in cites encouraged more people to protest
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