Chartists

Chartists
Char|tists, the
a political group of people that was active in the UK in the 1830s and 1840s. They demanded changes such as giving all men the right to vote and the right to become Members of Parliament. Some of them were sent to prisons in Australia as a punishment.

Dictionary of contemporary English. 2013.

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