1. Chartism

2. Class Division Working Classes vs. Middle Classes Industrious Classes vs. Lazy Classes

3. Anti-Corn Law League: Middle Class Chartists: Working Class

4. Causes Radical tradition Disillusionment with Reform Bill Poor Law of 1834 Trade Union failure

5. Depression of 1837

6. The Norman Yoke Original English freedom

7. Chartist Idea Political power leads to economic power Franchise necessary for political power

8. The People’s Charter 1.Universal Manhood Suffrage 2.Secret Ballot 3.Equal Electoral Districts 4.Payment for MPs 5.Abolition of Property Qualification 6.Annual Elections

9. National Chartist Meetings 1839 1842

10. Kennington Common (1848)

11. Chartist Movement National, but also local Leaders not working class

12. Immediate Consequences Growth of police Whigs backed off political reform Social reform moved forward

13. Economic Goals Unclear Agreed that labor the source of all value

14. Cooperate? Violence?

15. Feargus O’Connor 1794-1855 The Northern Star

16. Short-term Results Failure

17. Long-Term Context Social, political, economic not separate Economic power comes first or second?

18. From movement to rhetoric

19. Mass meetings end Chartist ideas continue

20. George W. M. Reynolds 1814-1879 Reynolds’s Weekly Newspaper