HIST 1084 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Wall Street Crash Of 1929, Reform Act 1832, Reform Act 1867
Document Summary
Fact: fiction, franchise a long-time right, natural rights for all, peaceful protest, enlightenment scripture leads the way, fact, franchise a slow and recent development, painful struggle for vast majority, violence was frequent, deaths, national laws restrict voting. British working class milestones: 1832 reform act, right to vote for property owning men, 1867 reform act, to urban workers, 1872 secret ballot act, 1884 reform act, right to vote for all men over 25. British women"s voting milestones: 1832 reform act, women vote taken away, 1865 john stuart mill elected, pioneered women"s vote, 1872 national society of women"s suffrage. Suffrage militarism: 1903 women"s social and political union, the pankhursts: emmeline, sylvia, christabel. Home stretch: 1913-1918, epsom derby, june 1913, ww1, representation of the people act, 1918, representation of the people (equal franchise) act, 1928. Return to normalcy: the roaring 20s, second industrial revolution, red scare, birth of fascism, 1929 wall street crash, benito mussolini.
