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THURSDAY.
2nd/3rd Period – Prepare
for battle!
4th/5th/6th Period
Get your clickers
Chart Reference
9.3 Notes
Random Fact of the Day
The average tree in
metropolitan area
survives only about 8
years!
QUESTION 1
One of the overriding principles of the congresses
of Aix-la-Chapelle, Troppau, and Verona by
Austrian Prime Minister Metternich was
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
The necessity to implement constitutional reforms
to save the monarchs of Europe
The need to isolate France and force it to be regular
with its indemnity payments
How to fairly distribute the spoils of war taken from
France at the Congress of Vienna
The importance of gaining an agreement on a
collective security arrangement from the Great
Powers that would stamp out revolutionary
uprisings in Europe
The necessity of working-class representation in the
governments of Europe
QUESTION 2
Which of the following was a result of the
Decembrist Revolt (1825)?
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
Greece gained its independence
Charles X abdicated the throne and escaped to
England
Belgium gained its independence
Nicholas I crushed all opposition to him and ruled
like a tyrant
Alexander II freed the serfs
LIBERALISM
SOMETHING DIFFERENT.
9.3
CHARACTERISTICS OF LIBERALISM
The political outgrowth of the Enlightenment
Believe in…
Liberty of the individual
Equal rights
Government should protect natural rights
CHARACTERISTICS OF LIBERALISM
DON’T BELIEVE IN
PURE DEMOCRACY
AND UNIVERSAL
SUFFRAGE
Most identify with the
bourgeoisie (middle class)
Believe voting rights
shouldn’t be extended to
the lower classes
LIBERALISM IN ECONOMICS
Economics becomes known as the
“dismal science”
Adam Smith – Wealth of Nations
David Ricardo
“iron law of wages”
More kids keeps the supply of
workers up and wages down
Poverty is impossible to remove
Thomas Malthus
Population vs. food supply
CLASSICAL LIBERAL THOUGHT
Utilitarianism – Jeremy Bentham
Every law should help the greatest amount of people
at the greatest possible amount
John Stuart Mill – On Liberty (1859)
A person should be free as long as it doesn’t infringe
on someone else’s freedom
Government’s purpose
Absolute freedom of opinion to be protected from both
government censorship and tyranny of majority
IMPACT OF LIBERALISM
Revolutionary Movements
Written Constitutions
Zollverein – 1834
Economic union of 17 German states which
eliminated internal tariffs and established free trade
Free trade was a liberal idea
HOW ABOUT THAT IT’S FRIDAY.
9.3 Notes
DBQ Exercise (4th, 5th, 6th)
This weekend – 9.4 Podcast
Monday – 9.1-9.4 Quiz
Random Fact of the Day
Most trees are tall.
LIBERAL REFORM IN ENGLAND
Slow but steady changes…
1820-1830 IN ENGLAND
Parliament runs the show, led by Prime Minister
Young Tories control the government
Reforms (write a few of these)
Abandon Concert of Europe
Reformed prisons/criminal code
Allowed labor unions
Established the “Bobbies”
Test Act repealed
HAD banned non-Anglicans from office
Civil rights for Catholics
1830 AND ONWARD
Led by Earl Grey, leader of Whigs
Develops British national character
REFORM BILL OF 1832
Spurred on by a recent cholera epidemic
People need more proactive government
Provisions
Increased number of voters from 6% to 12%
Kept a property qualification for the franchise
Eliminated rotten boroughs
House of Commons > House of Lords
PARLIAMENT’S ACTIONS
Factory Act of 1833
Limitations on
working hours
Destroyed pattern of
families working
together
Mines Act of 1842
No kids in mines
Factory Act of 1847
No boys/women in
factory over ten
hours
CHARTISM – UNION IN POLITICS
Political movement in
England which fights
for democracy among
all people
Six Points
Movement fails but all
measures will
eventually be adopted
OTHER PARLIAMENTARY THINGS
Corn Laws repealed in 1846
Navigation Laws repealed in 1849
All goods had to be brought in to England with
British ships
The official end to mercantilism
BIG POINT: BECAUSE OF THESE SMALL
BUT STEADY CHANGES, THERE WAS
LIMITED INTERNAL UNREST IN ENGLAND
FROM 1820-1850, UNLIKE THE REST OF THE
CONTINENT OF EUROPE