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World History: Unit 6: Title
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The Luddites: 1811-1816
Attacks on the “frames” [power looms].

The Luddite Triangle

Ideas: Utilitarianism
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Individual Freedom
Jeremy Bentham
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“the greatest happiness for the greatest number”
John Stuart Mill
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Votes for women & working class
Government should help working class

Peterloo Massacre, 1819
British
Soldiers Fire on British
Workers:
19 dead,
700 wounded
Let us die like men, and not be sold like slaves!

Reform Act of 1832
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Rotten Burroughs – Members of Parliament not representative of population lowered property qualifications
Redistributed votes in House of Commons to represent cities

British Reform Bill of
1832

Chartist Movement
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1830’s
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Wanted …
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Universal Adult Male Suffrage
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Salaries for Parliament
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Secret Ballot

The Chartists
A female Chartist
A physical force—
Chartists arming for the fight.

• Abolition of slavery in the colonies in 1832.
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Sadler Commission to look into working conditions
• Factory Act [1833] – child labor.
New Poor Law [1834] – indoor relief.
• Poor houses.

Anti-Corn League, 1848
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Wanted to end tariff on imported grain—hard on factory workers
First modern protest group
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Demonstrations
Lectures
Posters pamphlets

Ireland
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Controlled by England &
Immigrant English Protestants
Discrimination against Catholics
Potato Famine 1845-50
Demand “Home Rule”
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Charles Parnell
1921 – Ireland became independent
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Except Northern Ireland

Education Reform
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Ragged Schools – religious schools for poor
1881 – public schools & mandatory education from 5-10 years old
1918-public secondary schools

The Socialists:
Utopians & Marxists
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People as a society would operate and own the means of production, not individuals.
Their goal was a society that benefited everyone, not just a rich, well-connected few.
Tried to build perfect communities [utopias].

Queen Victoria
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18 yrs old
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Reigned from
1837-1901
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Height of
British Empire

William Gladstone
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Liberal
Prime Minister
Supported social reforms
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Education
Anti-Poverty
Suffrage

Benjamin Disraeli
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Conservative
Prime Minister
Preserve Aristocracy
Supported moderate reform

Suffragettes—Women’s
Rights
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Emmeline Pankhurst
Demonstrations & marches
When jailed went on hunger strikes
Women’s Property Acts 1882
Women over 30, Right to Vote 1918

Other Reformers
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Fabian Society—Socialism by gradual reform
Labor Party—Trade Unions

Manchester,
England
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1750: 17,000
1850:300,000
2010:480,000