The State of the Nation in 1865
I feel sorry for anyone who choices to study from this, lol. Messy notes but I tried to generally sumarize what Britain was like by this point in History in terms of polictics.
- Created by: Kelly
- Created on: 07-12-14 18:04
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- Britain in 1865
- 1832 opened up enfranchisement for a small amount of people. (Upper MC)
- Only 1 in 6 men could vote
- No secret ballot
- No salary for MPs
- If salaries were provided, it'd encourage/mean average, non-affluent people could become an MP
- Chartism
- Whig government wanted to reflect Britain's new industrial landscape, not give working class men the vote
- Continued to believe that the Landed Aristocracy preserved stability + social order
- Though the RA meant that the LA now had to share power with the MC
- More and more of whom became MPS
- Voted Whigs'as thanks'
- More and more of whom became MPS
- Though the RA meant that the LA now had to share power with the MC
- Continued to believe that the Landed Aristocracy preserved stability + social order
- Country ran according to constitutional monarchy lines
- Social order theory idea
- Liberal Party formed in 1859 out of the desire to topple Conservatives and had a wide political spectrum
- Within weeks Conseratives minority goverment toppled and Palmerston took office and Gladdstone as Chancellor
- By 1865 Conservatives were now fronted by Disraeli
- Within weeks Conseratives minority goverment toppled and Palmerston took office and Gladdstone as Chancellor
- A civil service was developing by this time and with it the understanding that the Government was going to have to do more for the people
- Tories renamed 'Conservatives'' under Peel to give them a more electable face
- Under Peel (1841-46) Britain moved more towards free trade than protection of tarrifs
- 1832 opened up enfranchisement for a small amount of people. (Upper MC)
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