Radical reformers, c1790-1819

Who founded the Society for Constitutional Information in 1780?

• Thomas Paine

• Major John Cartwright

• William Cobbett

• Henry 'Orator' Hunt

What does LCS stand for?

(Note: each word starts with a capital letter)

True or false:

The Association for Preserving Liberty and Property against Republicans and Levellers were an extreme radical group who wanted universal suffrage and admired the values of the French Revolution.

• True

• False

True or false:

Thomas Spence was a self-taught radical who believed in the abolition of the monarchy and aristocracy, and favoured an active revolution similar to the French model.

• True

• False

In what year did the the Spa Fields meeting occur?

Place the following events in chronological order:

• Peterlee massacre

• Spa Fields meeting

• Pentridge Rising

• Founding of the LCS

What was the name of the agent provocateur who had encouraged the extreme action at Spa Fields?

(Note: name starts with a capital letter)

The Peterloo massacre took place in St Peter's Field in ​ (a)   . The crowd was estimated to be about ​ (b)   , who had gathered to hear a speech from ​ (c)   . The local ​ (d)   ordered the local yeomanry to arrest the speaker. Details of the event were particularly good because a journalist for ​ (e)   was present on the platform, and provided an eyewitness account.

• Manchester
• Birmingham
• 80,000
• Henry Hunt
• Thomas Spence
• magistrates
• MP
• The Times
• The Guardian
• 150,000

What book, written by Thomas Paine, argued against Edmund Burke's critique of the French Revolution, and instead argued against any form of hereditary rule, such as monarchy and the House of Lords?

• Rights of Man

• Wealth of Nations

• On Liberty

• Das Kapital

Who had rocks thrown at his coach, giving the government to pretext to strengthen the laws to deal with radicals?

• William Pitt

• George III

• Prince Regent (later George IV)

• Lord Liverpool