The Chartist Movement in Britain in the 1830s and 1840s

question 46

Multiple Choice

The Chartist movement in Britain in the 1830s and 1840s demanded

• A)laws to forbid employing Irish workers in English factories.
• B)universal male suffrage.
• C)expansion of the military forces of Great Britain as a means of dealing with widespread unemployment.
• D)tariffs to keep foreign products from competing with domestic production.

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