The Life and Times of Eugene Victo Debs by Marguerite Young.
The Chartist movement(1838–1857) was Britain’s first mass working-class political movement, aiming to gain political rights and influence through the “People’s Charter”. Triggered by economic distress and the 1832 Reform Act’s failure to grant working-class suffrage, it sought six reforms: universal male suffrage, secret ballots, no property qualifications for MPs, payment of MPs, equal constituencies, and annual Parliaments. Despite submitting massive petitions in 1839, 1842, and 1848, which Parliament rejected, the movement established a legacy of activism, with most of its demands eventually becoming law.
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