Chartist Movement Research Paper

Chartism was a mass movement driven by the working class. The working class wanted to extended voting rights beyond those owning property, believing every men should have the right to vote. Voting should be located in secret ballots and elections should be held each year. They wanted members of the parliament to be paid and property qualifications for becoming a parliament member to be abolished. The Chartist movement requests were radicals to those not involved in the movement. People began thinking of the French Revolution and the this movement will lead to another revolution. The Chartist people did not result to violence and used patience to receive their wishes. Many publicist and newspapers published a variety of article based on the different opinions and views of the Chartist movement. Men and women of the working class used the press to voice their thoughts and observation of their oppression from the government not allowing them to vote. …show more content…
Most working class citizens supported the Chartist movement, and believed that …show more content…
Poems were writing and he was the major discussion in a tea party. During the imprisonment of Feargus O'Connor members of the chartist movement wrote a poem telling what a “noble and brave”(doc 4) leader Feargus O'Connor was. This poem also was written to allow Connors work to be transferred to another so the movement can continue. In a newspaper in west Yorkshire, a tea party was presented in the article of upper class citizens discussing the absence of Feargus O'Connor. They waiting on the call for a “general strike”(doc 5). The chartist movement began to look revolutionary to some