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Corn Laws repealed in 1848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