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Was Chartism a failure
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Was Chartism a failure? Over the last few decades, historians have debated among themselves trying to decide how successful or not this movement was; a movement that would have provided vast opportunities in a political sense to the working classes. Chartism was a working class movement which emerged in 1836, which aimed at extending the political rights and opportunities to the working classes. The term Chartism originated from the People's Charter which outlined the six main aims of the Chartist movement; the enactment of universal suffrage, equal representation, the abolition of the property qualification, vote by ballot, annual parliaments and the payment of members.1 It has to also be included that the implementation of the People's Charter was not the only aim of Chartism, but to also create within the people a working class conscience. The Chartist movement ended in 1848 without the implementation of any of its six aims,...
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