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'Internal disunity was the main reason for the failure of Chartism.' To what extent do you agree with this statement?
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'Internal disunity was the main reason for the failure of Chartism.' To what extent do you agree with this statement? By the time the petition was rejected in 1848 it can be seen that Chartism had lost its importance amongst its former supporters and to the government and thus dying out as an important political campaign movement. A big question that has remained amongst historians is the cause of this downfall of a once hugely popular movement that 'effectively raised fundamental constitutional questions in Parliament and rattled the bars of the establishment' (H.Browne). In this essay I shall discuss whether or not the internal disunity of the Chartists was the main reason for their failure or was it as a result of many other factors including the following; no general middles-class support for cross-class alliance, power of the state that enabled them to make mass arrests, exhaustion of constitutional means...
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