chartism in English

noun
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a UK parliamentary reform movement of 1837–48, the principles of which were set out in a manifesto called The People's Charter.
Nineteenth-century popular movements for parliamentary reform such as Chartism turned to Magna Carta for support.

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1. Dictionary entry overview: What does Chartism mean? • Chartism (noun) The noun Chartism has 1 sense:

2. Spartacus Educational subject menu: Chartism

3. Chartism maintained that the lives of ordinary people could not

4. The Newport Uprising © Chartism was a national movement

5. Chartism was a working class movement from 1839 to 1848

6. Chartism, workingmen's political reform movement in Great Britain, 1838?48

7. Chartism, workingmen's political reform movement in Great Britain, 1838–48

8. Chartism was a national British working-class movement aimed at parliamentary reform

9. Sections: Chartists, Chartist Tactics, Newspapers and Chartism, Artists and Writers, Parliamentary Reform Acts

10. Chartism was a movement of the industrial working class, protesting against their living and working conditions

11. Other articles where Chartism is discussed: Thomas Carlyle: London: In Chartism (1840) he appeared as a bitter opponent of conventional economic theory, but the radical-progressive and the reactionary elements were curiously blurred and mingled

12. There were a whole variety of reasons why Chartism failed and all these factors played a part in its failure.The upper and middle classes were opposed to any kind of violent working class uprising.One of the main reasons for the popularity of Chartism was the economic recession.When this recession finished and the economy stabilised so Read more about Why Did Chartism Fail[…]

13. The demands of Chartism were too radical for many of the middle-classes, who

14. Chartism, the mass movement for democratic rights, dominated British domestic politics in the late 1830s and 1840s

15. The nature of Chartism has been the subject of controversy since the earliest days of the Charter

16. Chartism was only a mass movement in times of depression, with peaks of activity coinciding with troughs in the economy.

17. Chartism was a working-class male suffrage movement for political reform in Britain that existed from 1838 to 1857

18. ‘The alarms of Chartism died out, and the blessings of a liberal economy were celebrated for the next half century.’ ‘In the book, apart from their link with the growth of Chartism, these groups receive limited attention and are treated as ‘rural’ industrial workers.’

19. Chartism arose when the Northern Star, a newspaper that campaigned for better wages and conditions for workers, started to support The People's Charter

20. Chartism - the principles of a body of 19th century English reformers who advocated better social and economic conditions for working people

21. Chartism was the first movement both working class in character and national in scope that grew out of the protest against the injustices of the new industrial and political order in Britain. While composed of working people, Chartism was also mobilized around populism as well as clan identity

22. Chartism was both a political reaction to a series of setbacks suffered by the working classes during the 1830s, and a response to economic hardship

23. In this video Steven Franklin discusses the significance of Chartism as the first working class mass political movement and progenitor of later working class

24. Chartism definition is - the principles and practices of a body of 19th century English political reformers advocating better social and industrial conditions for the working classes.

25. Chartism was a movement based on improving the political, social, and economic conditions of the working class and is considered the first mass working class movement in the world

26. "Chartism: A New Organisation of the People" proposed a National Association of the United Kingdom for the purpose of politically and socially improving the people

27. Chartism was a working class movement, which emerged in 1836 and was most active between 1838 and 1848. The aim of the Chartists was to gain political …

28. The principles of a body of 19th century English reformers who advocated better social and economic conditions for working people Familiarity information: Chartism used as a noun is very rare.

29. Chartism failed for a number of reasons; most obviously, it failed to gather support in Parliament - not surprising when you consider the threat it posed to the self-interest of those in power

30. Stephens told a vast audience on Kersal Moor, Manchester, in 1838 that ‘This question of Universal Suffrage was a knife and fork question’ he came close to denying that Chartism was primarily a political movement at all.

31. Chartism itself morphed out of the people's social and political dissatisfaction brought to a head through mass meetings and demonstrations led by three major entities: the Birmingham Political Union, the London Working Men's Association, and the northern unions …

32. The main text is supported by a collection of over forty source extracts illustrating different and conflicting aspects of Chartism which provide the reader with the raw materials from which evidence can be drawn to construct his or her own line of argument and challenge the alternatives.

33. Chartism is a huge topic in British history and I have read quite much on it, however I am unsure how revolutionary actually was the movement? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.130.95.38 ( talk ) 03:48, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

34. Chartism was a mass movement that attracted a following of millions. Hundreds of thousands of people were sometimes reported to have attended their meetings and their three petitions amassed millions of signatures, although some were proved to be fake.

35. 1837, Chartism was a name to evoke the wildest hopes and worst fears, like Bolshevism in a later age.’ 1 Why did the movement fascinate its contemporaries and later writers alike? Firstly, the Chartists wanted to reform society by changing the way in which they were governed

36. Chartism was a movement established and controlled by working men in 1836 to achieve parliamentary democracy as a step towards social and economic reform. The Charter made six political demands but the organisation was Utopian and naive in the belief that constitutional reform would automatically provide socio-economic betterment.

37. Chartism was the first truly national mass workers’ movement in history. The three Chartist petitions that advocated suffrage reform attracted millions of signatures and, set against the backdrop of a revolutionary Europe in 1848, the movement became a staple of working-class life in the mid-19th century.

38. Chartism was a national political movement, associated with working-class radicalism, with the avowed goal of forcing the British parliament to accept the “Six Points” of the People’s Charter: a vote for every man over 21, secret ballots, no property qualification for MPs, salaries for MPs, equal constituencies, and annual parliaments.

39. The influence of Chartism (and its sequel [as one could consider it] Past and Present) on Disraeli, Gaskell, Kingsley and other socially or politically concerned novelists is clear, and it was the book Dickens supplied to his protege John Overs, a working-class poet, as a lesson in morality and behaviour for an intelligent working-class man.

40. Thomas Carlyle's pamphlet Chartism (1839), argued the need for reform by fanning these fears, though he later became increasingly hostile to democratic ideas in works like "Hudson's Statue" Historians theorize broadly about why this revolutionary movement died out just as the revolutions of 1848 were breaking out all over Europe, but from this

41. Chartism - the principles of a body of 19th century English reformers who advocated better social and economic conditions for working people ethic , moral principle , value orientation , value-system - the principles of right and wrong that are accepted by an individual or a social group; "the Puritan ethic"; "a person with old-fashioned values"