Chartism was a movement for political and social reform in the United Kingdom during the mid-19th century, between 1838 and 1859. It takes its name from the People's Charter of 1838. Chartism was possibly the first mass working class labour movement in the world. Its leaders have often been described as either "physical force" or "moral force" leaders, depending upon their attitudes to violent protest. Chartists were largely unsuccessful at convincing Parliament to reform the voting system of the mid-19th century; however, this movement caught the interest of the working class. The working class interest in politics from that point on aided later suffrage movements.
Those who pushed Parliament to accept the People's Charter
some people would consider them revolutionaries depending on how the define a revoultion, chartists did want change but they didn't want absolute change which in some peoples opinions mean they don't count as revolutionaries
I suppose it depends on what period you are looking at. In the short term, the answer is "not very". However, of their six demands, five were implemented by the early 20th century and remain so to this day. The exception is, of course, annual general elections, which is unworkable in reality.
The protest movement can be split into two distinct groups, the Moral Force chartists and the Physical Force chartists. These groups attempted to force reform in distinctively different ways. The Moral Force chartists intended peaceful protest, the Physical force chartists, as the name suggests, intended to force change through use of physical force and violence. Moral Force chartists- protested peacefully Physical Force chartists- protested violently
the chartists NEVER use violence to achieve their aims.
The chartists fell apart as they all had tried absolutely everything and nothing had worked for them hope this helped :)
yes they happily did
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They wanted to join it as many people were working class and they wanted the vote and one way to do that was to join the chartists
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No
Those who pushed Parliament to accept the People's Charter
some people would consider them revolutionaries depending on how the define a revoultion, chartists did want change but they didn't want absolute change which in some peoples opinions mean they don't count as revolutionaries
They were called Chartists.