power and the people

• the magna carta


  charter outlining the king's and barons' rights
• provisions of oxford - simon de monfort


  skilled noble, 15 barons to advise the king (gained more power)
• the peasants revolt


  distressed peasants fail to make richard ii to meet demands
• pilgrimage of grace


  religious protest against corrupt henry viii and thomas cromwell
• english civil war


  royalist (charles i) vs parliamentarians , religious differences
• american revolution


  resists english power, decleration of independence
• great reform act


  middle class petition for more power, supported by conservatives
• peterloo massacre


  lack of representation in parliament, suffarage
• chartism


  fairer society for working class, better conditions through petitions (peaceful and violent), failed due to strong opposition of parliament
• anti-slavery campaign


  protests by black people to improve conditions, took 6 years
• anti-corn laws campaign


  economic distress led to protests, middle class men helped poor's cause, supported by prime minister (success)
• social reforms


  improve lives for working class, trade unions formed (unsucessful)
• tolpuddle martyr


  unfair arrest and trial after social gathering, wage cuts, involvement of GNCTU
• match girls strike


  strike against bryant and may factory, led by annie besant (success)
• suffragetes


  lack of representation led to mixture of peaceful and violent methods (ed), (successful in later years)
• women's rights


  lack of gender equality, strike and protests (demands for equality and other causes) (successful)
• general strike 


  coal/wages, delayed by one year, propaganda and tuc and police involvement, (unsuccessful in short term)
• miners strikes


  conditions/wages/trade unions decline, government attempted to close mines in north leading to strikes and clashes with police
• immigration


  british nationality act (1948) citizen if in commonwealth, help rebuild britian after wwii, segregation leading to new laws (unsuccessful in short term)
• gnctu


  due to lack of social and political reform, first union, 500000 members, inspired new model unions and involved in tolpuddle martyrs
• brixton riots


  racist and violent clashes after stop and search laws, recession especially in black communities, national front convinced black people were more likely to be involved in crimes, 2 reports (institutionalised racism within police, stephen lawrence not much had changed)