context + period of regency Flashcards
when
1834-1874
context
4
- Fernandos death
- Spains changes (political,economical,social) = goal: consolidate liberalism
- mostly moderate = + Influence of military
- Frequent pronunciamientos = - slow /complex process
M Cris regency situation
83-43
situation:
- Succesion conflict = carlos vs Isabel (3 years) (( M.Cris))
- Carlos (absolutists/trad) Vs Isabelines (liberals)
-2 ideological / political views confronted
Liberal tendencies
- MODERATES: 3
1. census b suffragge
2. shared soveregnity crown–cortes
3. social order = centralized + authoritarian state - PROGRESSIVES: 3
1. National soveregnity
2. less power church /crown
3. wider census based suffrage + wider bill of rights**
Moderates in power
34-36
1. (34) M.Cris Martinez de la Rosa in charge = head govern
2. Tries to implement royal estatute*
3. Progressives dislike estatute = anticlerical violence and outbursts =prov towns
ROYAL ESTATUTE
5
1834
Carta otorgada // Balance lib-trad
sets
1. bicameral cortes
2. indirect suffrage (%0.15)
3. senate = grandees,church charges,royal apointees
4. no bill of rights
5. crown absolute veto power
Progressives take power
36-37
- New elections 1836 / strongly prog chamber = prog power
- Mendizabal = prime minister
- What happened:
1.Mendizabal disentailment
2.La Granjas pronunciamiento ( July 1836)
3.1837 constitution
Mendizabals disentailment
4
- solve 2 problems = financing civil war + get rid of monastic properties
- ALL monastic lands = national prop = sell in** PUBLIC AUCTION**
- GOAL = strong LIB middle class
-
FAILS to get rid of the church :
Spanish church Vs liberalism ( pro carlists)
Vatican break up
La Granjas pronunciamiento
5
July 1836
- M.Cris Mendizabal ->mod prime minister
- progres rise up ( royal palace = La granja)
- officers = pro const 1812
- M.Cris forced - put progre government
- new cortes = new constitution
1837 constitution
- conciliatory document
- restored principles:
1. nat soveregnity
2. shared authority = parliament-crown
3. progre but keeping it moderate : Crowns veto power (keep both parties happy—defeat carlos)
4. **Broader census **suffragge (%2,1)
Moderates in power vol 2
37-40
- win elections = governm shift—> conserv / centralist policies
- minor disorders in prov capitals
- Carlist war won + tense political situation = M.Cris abdicates regency = Espartero
- Espartero = dominant figure / hero of Carlist 1 war
Esparteros regency
40-43
- several progressive measures : disentailments/ elimi fueros
- very authoritarian = harsh repression : mod pronunciam /prog outbursts
- 1842 BOMB BCN
- end =** Narvaez pronunciamiento **1844 (Cortes Isabel coming out = 13)
Barcelona 1842
4
- repress workers protests = bombarding
- military occupation of city
- destory city / 100s killed
- PROGRESSIVES STOP SUPPORTING ESPARTERO