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1
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Britain was a ______with a parliament and 2 political parties

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Constitutional monarchy

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House of Lords (hereditary nobles and high ranking clergy) could ____bills passed by the House of Commons

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veto

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_______and________could not vote or serve in Parliament

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Catholics, non-Anglican Protestants

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Able to elect a representative to Parliament, few people over wide spread of land (votes based on land not population)

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Rotten boroughs

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By 1830 the_____and the _____were battling over a bill to reform Parliament

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Whigs, Tories

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Whig Party

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Middle class and business interests, led by Gladstone

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Tory Party

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nobles, landowners, agricultural, led by Disraeli

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  • Redistributed the House of Commons (eliminated rotten boroughs)
  • Enlarged the electorate (property requirement for voting though)
  • However, this still did not bring full democracy
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Great Reform Act of 1832

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  • longest reign in British history
  • embodied values
  • British middle class and working class felt confident in the future
  • Emperor of India
  • Agreed with lower class’s push for social reform
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Queen Victoria

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The reform bill didn’t help____or____

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rural, urban workers

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Chartists (protesters) drew up the _______, a petition that demanded universal male suffrage, as well as a secret ballot

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People’s Charter

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How many times was the People’s Charter submitted?

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Twice with 1M signatures

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In 1848, the third attempt was planned with a march and the government feared____so they suppressed the march and the movement declined

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violence

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Even though the government suppressed the movement…

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they passed most of the major reforms

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Benjamin Disraeli

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Leader of the Tories that was now known as the Conservative Party

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William Gladstone

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Leader of the Whigs that was known as the Liberal Party

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Both alternated between….

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Prime Minister

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______pushed through the reform bill of 1867 (gave the right to vote to working class men_

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Disraeli

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_____extended suffrage to farm workers and most other men

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Gladstone

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Britain changed from a constitutional monarchy to a…..

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parliamentary monarchy (executive leaders are chosen and responsible to Parliament as well as members of it)

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Many bills passed by the House of Commons were turned down by the….

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House of Lords

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Because of this, a Liberal government passed measures to restrict power including the power to____

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veto

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_________refused to eat and was force fed

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Lady Constance Lytton

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free trade

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trade between countries without government involvement

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The government taxed_____to protect local economies
foreign imports
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Created laissez-faire (larger markets and open competition)
Adam Smith
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Corn Laws
High tariffs on imported grains (farmers and wealthy landowners supported this)
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Repealed in Parliament after...
widespread crop fails in Europe, but were placed again in the 1800's
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Enlightenment thinkers realized the evil of...
slavery (British ships carried the most slaves to the US)
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First European country to abolish slavery
Britain (condemned at first until being banned in 1833)
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____crimes were punishable by death
200+
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Some juries refused to convict criminals until the death penalty was reserved for....
murder, piracy, treason, and arson
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Petty criminals were transported to....
Australia (penal colonies)
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Parliament passed laws to regulate conditions in ______and_______
factories, mines - mines couldn't employ women and children under 10 - 10 hour workday - Inspectors, minimum wage, maximum hours/wk
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Early in the IR_____were outlawed
labor unions
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Made legal but couldn't______until a year later
go on strike
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Sponsored laws to improve public health and housing for workers in cities
Disraeli
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Pushed to open up government jobs based on merit
Gladstone
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Fabian Society
pushed for gradual change in society through legal means instead of violence
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Marxism gained only_____support among working class because....
limited | government passed social welfare laws
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Didn't support women's suffrage
Queen Victoria
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Used violent protesting
Emmeline Pankhurt
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Women were eventually allowed to vote in....
1918
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Britain faced the....
Irish Question
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landlords who owned large estates but didn't live on them
absentee landlords
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Irish were forced to pay....
tithes (1/10 annual earnings to support church and clergy)
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Ireland faced the...
potato famine
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Irish Nationalist leader
Daniel O'Connor
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Catholic Emancipation Act
Allowed to vote and hold political office
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Fenian Brotherhood
Liberate Ireland through violence | Leader: Charles Stewart Parnell
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Home Rule Bill was passed but was delayed by....
WW2
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Nephew of Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleon III (government looked like a constitutional monarchy but he was really a dictator)
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Issued new ____that extended democratic rights before war with Prussia
constitution
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Organized the building of the Suez Canal in Egypt
Ferdinand de Lesseps
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He also...
legalized labor unions, extended education to girls, and created a small public health program
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His worst failure...
foreign affairs
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Tried to replace Maximilian (Austrian Hapsburg Prince) on the throne of Mexico because he hoped...
to turn Mexico into a French Satellite(but it failed)
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Mexican Patriots resisted and US protested, eventually....
France withdrew after 4 years and Prince was shot by Patriots
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Helped Italian nationalists defeat Austria gaining...
Nice and Savoy
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Bismarck lured napoleon into.....
war (he was captured and Paris was under siege for 4 weeks)
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2nd empire_____after his capture
ended
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France set up a _____government
provisional
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Harsh peace with Germany
$ and Alsace and Lorraine
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Pars Commune
wanted to save the republic from Royalists
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Communards
rebels (workers, socialists, burgroius republics)
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Civil War erupted after.....
Nationalist Assembly ordered them to disband and sent troops
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3rd Republic had a....
2 house legislature - chamber of deputies (elected) - senate
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Doubled the number of votes
Reform bill of 1867
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The Reform Act of 1832 gave a greater political voice to
middle-class men
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Why were the Chartists not satisfied with the Reform Act of 1832?
The bill did not help many rural or urban workers, who could not meet the property requirement
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Queen Victoria represented many values, how did these values relate to economic reform?
They promoted reform because they were widely adopted by people at all levels of society
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Which British social classes in the 1800s would benefit the most from the elimination of tariffs?
- the working class and the poor, who would gain from lower food prices - the middle class, which included the people who carried out the trade
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What caused France's political system and government to be unstable?
its coalition government
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What was different between how French women tried to get the right to vote compared to how British women tried?
The French favored legal protests
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Seen as a conservative force that opposed progressive policies, the French tried to ...
repress Church involvement in government
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What event ended a long period of French domination of Europe?
defeat by Prussia in the Franco-Prussian War
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What problem does having coalitions cause in government?
It is hard for one party to get enough votes to gain power
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General George Bovalnger
Minister of war

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