History A-Level
Chartist demands
What Chartist demands means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Chartist demands
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
Universal male suffrage, secret ballot, annual parliaments, equal constituencies, payment for MPs and no property qualifications.
Topics that use Chartist demands
- Paper 1, Option 1D: Britain, c1785–c1870: democracy, protest and reform - 1 The growth of parliamentary democracy, c1785–c1870 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
Related terms
- Great Reform Act 1832
- Pressure for reform from radicals and Whigs
- Reform Act 1867
- Reform League
- Representation and its inequalities
- The political demands of the manufacturing interest
- Corruption and the conduct of elections
- Failure of Chartism
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