Age of Democracy and Progress

  • The Reform Bill of 1832

    This law eased the property requirements so that well-to-do men in the middle class could vote. The Reform Bill also modernixed the districts for electing members of Parliament and gave the thriving new industiral cities more representation.
  • Chartist Movement

    People's Charter was drawn up for the London Working Men's Association by William Lovett and Francis Place, two self-educated radicals, in consultation with other members of LWMA.
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    The Dreyfus Affair

    a political scandal that from its beginning in 1894 divided France until it was finally resolved in 1906.