Pitt 1783-1804
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- Pitt 1783-1804
- Financial Policy
- Dealing with the deficit
- The Sinking Fund
- Reduced National Debt by £11million
- Used during war with France (bad idea)
- The Sinking Fund
- Improving taxation policy
- Taxing the wealthier indirectly
- Window, wig and horse tax
- Largely rejected; windows were bricked up
- Amount in treasury generally increased
- Window, wig and horse tax
- Business taxes repealed later
- Taxing the wealthier indirectly
- Dealing with the deficit
- Trading Policy
- 'Freer trade' of Liberalism
- Adam Smith - Wealth of Nations
- Against protectionism
- Adam Smith - Wealth of Nations
- Trade routes lost with USA due to American War
- Boost trade routes with Europe
- Eden Treaty 1786
- British manufacturers benfitted the most
- Satisfied British manufacturers and landowners
- Boost trade routes with Europe
- 'Freer trade' of Liberalism
- Support of the King
- The King was influential in politics
- When the King did not support Catholic Emancipation, Pitt resigned
- Kept out Fox-North coalition
- Regency Crisis of 1788
- The King was influential in politics
- Threat of Revolution
- Encouraged British radicalism
- Division of the Whig party
- Some more liberal whigs joined Pitt's administration
- Division of the Whig party
- Threat of the Jacobins
- The Black Lamp Conspiracy, Despard Conspiracy, Luddism and Food Riots
- Popular Loyalism
- Encouraged British radicalism
- Financial Policy
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