proggressive biennium + lib-mod alternation in power Flashcards
when
54-56
context progressive biennium
- newcortes = draft new constitution 1856
- non nata =never implement
- GOAL of legislation of biennium = business expansion (open up,corporate laws)
sucesos biennium
54-56
- Madozs disentailment 1855
- Railroad General Law 1855
- End of progressive biennium
MADOZ DISENTAILMENT
- Finance Minister = MADOZ issues
- law disentail any collective property (municipal lands mostly)
- sell collective lands = for private owners benefit / rural people fucked up
- benefits = railroad investments = promote commerce / industry
RAILROAD GENERAL LAW
1855
- LAW : no taxes imported materials //companies right of exprop
- **Spain slow to install railroad vs western :
1. lack private capital
2. technological backwardness
3. politically unstable
4. orography challenging
- LAWS GOAL** = attract investments : foreign inv
-** THANKS to the law **
1. FR/GB companies created companies
2. inner commerce raised
3. not help industrialization = long term = COSTLY
End of progressive biennium
1856
- danger of popular revolt : riots for food in towns
- growing tension
- **O’DONNELS PRONUNCIAMIENTO **= Espartero resigns = Isa makes ODONNEL = head of government
Liberal union and moderates alternation in power
12 years
6
1856-1868
1. shared power : narvaez-odonnel
2. odonnel reinstal 1845 mod const
3. rigged elections =
minority of prog/ultraconservatives win seats congress
4. Economic development = consensus/reconciliation groups w system
5. economic growth 50’s
6. deep economical crisis 1866
deep crisis of 1866
- social unrest = social demands
political participation //Isabel bad reputation - subsistence crisis: a lot of taxes but less spending in public
- lower classes stir
END OF ISABELINE PERIOD
1866
- revolution VS** borbon dynasty** = succesful
urban bourgoisie+centrists/leftists = opposition - Democratization of Spain
- Ostende Treaty in 1866
- 1868 = La GLORIOSA
OSTENDE TREATY
1866
END OF ISABELS REIGN
General Prim(PROG) + Serrano (DEMOC)