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		A movement for social and political reform in the UK during the mid-19th century, Chartism gains its name from the People's Charter of 1838, which set out the main aims of the movement.
		Chartism is thought to originate from the passing of the 1832 Reform Bill[?], which gave the vote to the majority of the (male) middle classes, but not to the 'working class'.
		However, the aims of Chartism were taken on as policies by political parties, most notably the Liberal Party.
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	Chartism - LoveToKnow 1911
		CHARTISM, the name given to a movement for political reform in England, from the so-called "People's Charter" or "National Charter," the document in which in 1838 the scheme of reforms was embodied.
		The monster petition was duly presented, and scrutinized, with the result that the number of signatures was found to have been grossly exaggerated, and that the most unheard-of falsification of names had been resorted to.
		It became merged, so far as its political programme is concerned, with the advancing radicalism of the general democratic movement.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Chartism (954 words)

	Chartism: An Introduction
		Chartism was a movement established and controlled by working men in 1836 to achieve parliamentary democracy as a step towards social and economic reform.
		Chartism was the first specifically working-class movement, although 'Chartism' and 'working class' are both terms that cover regional variations and all types of working men: artisans to factory workers.
		Chartism was born of hunger, despair, desperation and failure and had a number of causes.
	www.victorianweb.org /history/chartism.html (616 words)

	Chartism - Encyclopedia.com
		By this time the vitality of Chartism was being undermined by a revival of trade unionism, the growth of the Anti-Corn Law League, and a trend toward improvement in working-class economic conditions.
		The last burst of Chartism was sparked by an economic crisis in 1847-48.
		Chartism's fl activist: to celebrate Black History Month, Malcolm Chase recalls the life of the Soho tailor William Cuffay, the son of a freed slave from St Kitts, who overcame poverty and disability to become one of the leaders of the Chartist 'conspiracy' of 1848.(CROSS CURRENT)
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	Chartism@Everything2.com
		Chartism was an English working class movement centered on around six points that they felt needed addressing.
		Moreover, though Chartism itself fell apart, the reforms it demanded were nonetheless gradually conceded by Parliament during the next hundred years; additionally, because it created the first real threat of class war between proletariat and bourgeoisie, the Chartist movement foreshadowed later social change.
		[Chartism's] true significance stemmed from its ability to arouse...millions of working-class men and women, to give them a sense of working-class consciousness...This political education of working people was important to the ultimate acceptance of all the points of the People's Charter in the future.
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	History Online - Resources
		Furthermore, it was claimed that Chartism could be only understood in a local, not a national context; in different towns and regions people calling themselves Chartists had quite different objectives, and quite different means of advancing their cause.
		Chartism should be seen as the political dimension of the way of life of the producers in early industrial Britain.
		Chartism came about because people in differing manufacturing districts found themselves agreed on the need for a movement to protect their existing institutions and achievements, to resist the attacks being mounted on them by the newly enfranchised employing class, and to press forward for new freedoms.
	www.historyonline.co.uk /freesite_tour/samples/chartism/linkd.html (475 words)

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		CHARTISM In 1848, when every major European capital, with the exception of Brussels and St. Petersburg, witnessed political ferment and upheaval, the Chartist s in Great Britain planned a massive demonstration in London to draw attention to their six fundamentals.
		Their projected rally was strictly outlawed by the government and the activists eventually resolved that discretion was the better part of valour when the Cabinet summoned the magistrates, the local militia and the reserves to maintain law and order in the capital.
		Chartism, in strictl y ideological terms, was by no means a novel movement in British history.
	www.cats.ohiou.edu /~Chastain/ac/chartis.htm (1288 words)

	To What extent did thr Chartist movement fail because its program of reform was totally im
		Chartism was a movement from 1838 which grew from a series of smaller movements which arose in the 1830s such as Owenism, NAPL, GNCTU.
		Other reasons why Chartism failed are based either because the movement was too early for its time, and died out by the 1850s, when communication problems still existed, the workforce was too divided to claim to be coherent and it was just too radical.
		So Chartism's failure was due to many reasons, another being the recovery of the British economy during the 1850s, thus ruining its claim that the government was mismanaging the country, as well as its impractical programme of reform.
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	Chartism FAQs
		Chartism is the campaign that came together from 1838 onwards in support of the People's Charter.
		Although the Chartists' opponents would later claim that Chartism was defeated on this day, there were serious threats of revolution throughout the summer of 1848, and as in previous Chartist surges order was restored only by mass arrests and the incarceration of national and local leaders.
		Although Chartism had its heyday between 1838 and 1858, some of those who had been active in it lived on and continued to play a part in public life to the end of the century and beyond.
	www.chartists.net /Frequently-Asked-Questions-about-Chartism.htm (1844 words)

	CHARTISM REVISITED
		Chartism was not a complete failure, as it left a rich legacy of political protest.
		However, given the different strands which fed into Chartism, it should not be assumed that the diversity which characterised its many activities was necessarily a weakness --particularly if you take the view that, in the context of the 1840s, the achievement of the Charter was not practical politics.
		Instead of asking why Chartism failed a more intriguing question may be: `Is it possible to understand the richness and diversity of political protest in the years 1850-1914 without acknowledging the central contribution of Chartism?' The answer is almost certainly `no'.
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	Definition of Chartism
		A movement for social and political reform in the United Kingdom during the mid-19th century, Chartism gains its name from the People's Charter of 1838, which set out the main aims of the movement.
		Chartism is thought to originate from the passing of the Reform Act 1832, which gave the vote to the majority of the male middle classes, but not to the 'working class'.
		Chartism was also an important influence in the British colonies.
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	Book review by David Renton of Keith Flett, 'Chartism After 1848: The Working Class and the Politics of Radical ...
		The continuing of Chartism, even as its formal structures tended to hollow out, provided opportunities for the state to intervene in a hostile fashion, closing off the spaces in which Chartists could met.
		Before 1848 Chartism had related to this area only sporadically and then, rarely, as workers with specific grievances, as The Red Republican had done with the typesetters during their 1850 strike.
		Secondly it recognized that there was now a new generation of workers who knew little or nothing of Chartism in 1838, and perhaps had not been particularly involved in the events of 1848.
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	Chartism - MSN Encarta
		Chartism, political reform movement in Britain from 1838 to 1848.
		The word is derived from the People's Charter, the name applied to a legislative program submitted to Parliament in 1837 by the London Working Men's Association.
		Chartism was in a period of decline until 1848, when another petition was sent to Parliament.
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	Chartism
		It expressed the resentment of conditions and movements which had promised so much, but which had failed the working man. Chartism was a product of industrialisation, but was also part of the radical tradition, which dated back to the mid-eighteenth century.
		To a great extent, Chartism was a "knife and fork, a bread and cheese question" as Joseph Rayner Stephens said on 24 September 1838 when he spoke at Kersal Moor, in favour of universal suffrage.
		The Chartist movement failed because it tore itself apart: Chartism had no money because it was born of poverty.
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	History Online Free Tour
		The apparent diversity of both the occupations and regions involved in Chartist activity has led some historians to question whether Chartism should be regarded as a national movement at all.
		Briggs, for example, has contended that Chartism lacked any underlying sense of national unity and that it is best seen as a 'snowball' of local movements - in other words, it is better to talk about 'chartists' rather than 'Chartism'.
		They point out how Chartism was bound together by the constant touring of the national leaders, itinerant lecturers and central organisations such as the National Charter Association set up by Feargus O'Connor in 1840.
	www.historyonline.co.uk /freesite_tour/samples/chartism/who3.html (286 words)

	The splinter movements from Chartism
		Chartism is, although an extensive, yet a well-defined political designation of a political party.
		I object to Teetotal Chartism, because all who do not join in it, and I fear they are many, will be considered as unworthy their civil rights.
		I object to Household Suffrage Chartism, because it is not Chartism at all.
	www.historyhome.co.uk /peel/chartism/splinter.htm (488 words)

	National Portrait Gallery \| What's on? \| Chartist Portraits
		Chartism was the first attempt to build a political party representing the working classes.
		The movement was named after the six-point charter, written in 1838, in which their demands were formulated: universal (male) suffrage, annual parliaments, vote by secret ballot, abolition of property qualifications for MPs, payment of MPs and equal electoral districts.
		Chartism was a loose federation of local movements rather than a unified national organization.
	www.npg.org.uk /live/wochartistportraits.asp (322 words)

	The National Archives Learning Curve \| Power, Politics and Protest \| Chartists
		Some opponents of the movement feared that Chartists were not just interested in changing the way Parliament was elected, but really wanted to turn society upside down by starting a revolution.
		Support for Chartism peaked at times of economic depression and hunger.
		Wage cuts were the main issue, but support for Chartism was also strong at this time.
	www.learningcurve.gov.uk /politics/g7 (369 words)

	Chartism/secondary sources
		An examination of the reaction of British churches, state and dissenting, to the democratic challenge of Chartism.
		Finn concludes that Chartism, in an effort to survive the collapse of the mass platform, co-opted continental, particularly French, radical, republican, democratic and socialistic rhetoric and theory and combined them with English radical tradition as described by Thompson in The Making of the English Working Class.
		In particular, he rejects the appraisal of April 10 as a humiliating failure for the Chartists, arguing instead that if there was a 'fiasco' it lay in the "massive over-reaction of their opponents".
	chartism.com /secondary.html (3074 words)

	Basic reasons for the Failure of Chartism
		The property qualification for Members was abolished in 1858, the secret ballot introduced in 1872 and Members were paid from 1911 onwards.
		It would be good to find in subsequent working-class movements some sign of Chartist revival but there is little in the trade union and Labour movements of the second half of the century to suggest continuity with Chartism.
		Regarded as a stage in the growth of political awareness of the working class it may be said to have achieved much.
	www.thecore.nus.edu.sg /landow/victorian/history/chartism6.html (429 words)

	Women And Chartism
		It was not ambition, it was not vanity that induced her to become a public woman; no, it was the oppression which had fallen upon every poor man's house that made her speak.
		For herself she would say that ever since the prosecution at Newport of the noble martyrs of Chartism, Frost, Williams and Jones, she had determined to fraternize with the Chartists till the blood should cease to flow in her veins.
		She did not doubt the ultimate success of Chartism any more than she doubted her own existence; but then it would not, as she said, be granted by the justice - no, it must be extorted from the fears of their oppressors.
	www.angryharry.com /reWomenAndChartism.htm (1464 words)

	Shropshire Routes to Roots \| Industrial Development \| Chartism in Llanidloes
		In 1842 Chartists went on strike in the Midlands, Lancashire and Yorkshire in a protest known as the Plug Plots, because the strikers removed the plugs from the industrial steam boilers.
		However, although undoubtedly Chartism failed in the short-term, some historians argue that it was ultimately a successful movement.
		Chartism provided the inspiration for some of the policies for the mainstream Liberal Party.
	www3.shropshire-cc.gov.uk /roots/packages/ind/ind_c05.htm (585 words)

	AllRefer.com - Chartism Information
		Under the leadership of the Irish parliamentarian Fergus O'Connor, Chartism became a powerful expression of working class frustration, and a third petition, also rejected, was presented in 1848.
		The long-term failure of the movement was probably due to greater prosperity among the populace as a whole, lack of organization, and rivalry among the leadership of the movement.
		Decline of the movement For many workers, Chartism was only one movement among many movements demanding their support, including the cooperative movement and the Anti-Corn Law League.
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