Western Civilization II / Unit 9 WC2 0828 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Chartism and the Repeal of the Corn Laws, 1846
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The idea
The witness supplies Chartism, eighteen thirty-eight to fifty-eight: the People's Charter for manhood suffrage, mass petitions, the general strike of forty-two, and a government that yielded nothing. The anchor has the Corn Laws repealed in forty-six; the witness, their tariffs on grain ended.
In practice
Workers asked for the vote and got cheaper bread.
Where people slip
Chartism is the witness's; repeal is both.
Your place on the trail
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