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Lesson 4- British History Part 3
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Transcript of Lesson 4- British History Part 3
Part 3
Developing Great Britain
Colonial Expansion and Parliamentary Reforms
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Review Part II – Chapters I-VII Vocabulary and Key Terms
Pre-feudal society (pp. 37-42) Feudalism (p. 44) The Great Charter (p. 47) Parliament (p. 48) “Model Parliament” (p. 49) “All-Estates Parliament” (p. 49) War of the Roses (p. 57) Enclosure Movement (p. 61) Reformation (p. 66-69) Renaissance (p. 70) Civil War and Commonwealth (p. 78) Colonial Power (p. 84) Revolutions (pp. 90-95)
Developing Great Britain (p. 96) After the wars with France (and
Napoleon)HUGE debt from the warFall in demand for manufactured goodsMany factories closed300,000 soldiers in need of work
The Corn Laws: imported corn is taxed. The government wanted to protect its own economic interests.
The Corn Laws
The Corn Laws Taxed imported corn. The British farmers did not want
the value of their corn to go down.
Restricted the amount of corn that could be imported into Britain.
People become angry (They have to eat don’t they?)
The bourgeoisie did not like the corn laws because: Made labor more expensive Slowed down the development of free trade
The Peterloo Massacre and the Six Acts
•Strikes and mass meetings were common
•In August 1819, a demonstration against the Corn Laws and a push for universal suffrage was organized in Manchester
•The demonstration was suppressed and 11 people were killed and 400 wounded and is known as “The Peterloo Massacre”
•After this the government passed the “Six Acts”
•These acts intended to:•Stop radical newspapers•Prevent large meetings
•Overall, the government wants to reduce the chances of citizens turning against the government
The Reform Bill (p. 99) No representation within Parliament from
the middle or lower classes“rotten boroughs” would send representatives
while large cities had no representationThe reform bill was meant to give the middle-
classes a position in the government
Changes in Parliament“rotten boroughs” were abolishedAdditional seats were given to populous areas Number of voters was increased by 217,000
Anti-Corn Law League
The Anti-Corn Law league began in 1838
Corn Laws repealed in 1848
Britain moves towards a policy of free trade
Chartism and the Chartists(p. 100)
•A movement for social and political reform
•The People’s Charter•People basically wanted universal suffrage
•Probably the first working-class labor movement in the world
•“moral force” vs. “physical force”
•Didn’t work because there was a lack of unity
•See more political movements from the working class after Chartism
Colonialism (pp. 103-107)
“The workshop of the world” Goods were produced in mass
quantities, markets were needed
Britain expanded its colonies
Expansion
Britain was an “empire on which the sun never set”India (increased control)China (The Opium Wars)Asia (Singapore and Burma)Africa Dominions of Canada, New Zealand, and
South Africa
By the 19th Century, the British Empire contained 11,000,000 square miles with 345,000,000 inhabitants
Imperialism Britain was able to conduct free trade
through economic pressure and forceBritain had vast coloniesMonopoly profit
However, late in the 19th century, other countries catch up with BritainAmerica and Germany became leading
steel producersBritish textile (cloth) industry was declining