Voting was not seen as a universal right but as a privilege for the ____ class of society. Before ____ the right to vote depended on three things: ____. Only men over the age of ____ were allowed to vote. ____. In order to vote, an individual had to own property over a certain value. ____. Small rural boroughs were able to elect more MPs than much larger towns and counties. The majority of the population lived in ____ areas in 1801, by the 1850s, ____ were beginning to grow. In 1801, the population of Glasgow was 77,000. By 1851, it was 329,000. The death rate ____ dramatically as the cities developed. Epidemics of diseases, such as ____, Cholera and TB swept through the overcrowded slums. Ordinary people, especially the poor and the ____ classes, had no voice in ____.

Britain Pre 1850

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