The Failure of Chartism
For the chartist to have had a focus, they would all have to have had the same issues, and all held equal support for all 6 parts of the people’s charter, the paper behind the chartist movement. This was not the case; in many instances the people would only support something when it suited them, a knife and fork issue, this was the cause for the collapse in the movement.
In source one it does say how people wanted the charter or rather universal suffrage, which does involve all 6 points, this can arguably seen as some focus, yet the source goes describes how there was a lack of focus upon the issues, the fact that it is a knife and fork issue, only really cared for when it is needed, means that there would be a dramatic lack of focus, crucial in the failure.
People had different issues, some were against stamp duty, the anti-corn law league, wanted repeal of the Corn Law, the 10 hour work movement wanted to reduce factory hours and the free trade movement wanted currency reformer. This was key in failure as they never raised any support at one time so the government did not worry as small uprisings were easy to deal with.
This is the case in source three as Asa Briggs states a proper appreciation of regional and local diversity is needed, which is fundamental in the understanding that it agrees and blames regional and local diversity in its failure; there is obvious deviation, different reasons, and lack of focus as they can’t want thin...
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...ividuals who were already involved in the electorate prior to the introduction of the Great Reform Act. Once the Act was introduced, the electorate did indeed increase, but this was for the middle classes, the working class on the other hand were outraged by the Act and violence erupted such as the formation of the Chartist movement. The political system may have been seen as more ‘organised’, yet political parties including the Tories opposed reform and argued that the existing system had already worked effectively, the Whigs weren’t completely eager either. Nonetheless, the Act did bring many positive outcomes, but they were outweighed by the unfavourable affairs which took place, such as rioting and demonstrations by working class men. Consequently, the Great Reform Act did not bring complete democracy and was condemned by many individuals as previously shown.
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