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Edmund Burke
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writer defending the conservative way in England. He argues thatyou should not have revolution because this will hurt people more than conservative government. And that change may come very radically evolutionarily rather than through some revolution like the French revolution.
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Thomas Paine
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writer who challenged the conservative movement. Thomas Paine wrote The Rights of Man
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John Gay
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he was a poet and dramatist who challenged the conservative movement. He wrote the beggars opera: it was a parody about how people in high places are just as much sinners as the drunk. This is written in his tombstone. “Life is a jest and all things show it, I thought so once and now I know it.”
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Arthur Wellesley (General Wellington):
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was the great English general who faced Napoleon at Waterloo. Napoleon lost. He was first duke of Wellington. He was an arch conservative. He said once that “I have always been a quarter hour before my time and it has made a man of me.”
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Peterloo Massacre:
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The British were not allowed to meet in any group larger than 25
A speaker once came to Manchester and spoke to a crowd of a thousand and the army troops were turned against the crowd and shot into the crowd and killed many people. This was the Peterloo Massacre a take off of the Waterloo Massacre. |
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Successful Reform Bill at the time
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The Reform Bill of 1832: the redistribution of the seats in the House of Commons. They also give the right to vote for anyone who had a house worth ten pounds a year.
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2 failed reform anti-conservative movements
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Anti-Corn Law League
The Chartists |
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Chartists:
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They had thousands of signatures of the people in Great Britain that believed that. The reform act of 1832 had not gone far enough.
-Secret Ballot -Abolition of the Property qualification for members of parliament -Annual parliamentary election -Establish the working class in position of power |
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The Reform Bill of 1832:
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the redistribution of the seats in the House of Commons. They also gave the right to vote for anyone who had a house worth ten pounds a year.
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