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Radical Reformers (The Six Acts (Seizure of Arms Act -- Local magistrates…
Radical Reformers
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The Corn Laws
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Taxes used to repay, unpopular by working class, 300,000 former soldiers were out of work
Britain needed to create self-sufficiency, by securing food supply, they only permitted foreign imports of wheat when domestic prices were too high
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Radical press and clubs
John Cartwright founded Hampden Clubs, which were political debating societies for universal manhood suffrage
Take Your Choice (1776), Argued for Six Points of People's Charter
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When Stamp Duty introduced, Corbett lowered price to 2d, 40,000 sales per week.
Henry Hunt
Hunt was arrested and met radical lawyer, Francis Place.
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