History CH. 24
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- Benjamin Disraeli
- wrote novel Sybil - Forged Tories into conservative party and pushed Reofrm Act of 1867. Alternated w/Gladstone as Prime Minister.
- Chartism
- protesters who drew up People's Charter - demanded male suffrage, annual parliamentary elections, and salaries for all members of parliament. Key demand was secret ballot
- Queen Victoria
- longest reign in British history - strict code of morals and manners - values = duty, thrift, honesty, respectability abd hard work. Middle class thrived under her reign
- William Gladstone
- led the Whigs/liberal party - pushed for Reform Act of 1867
- Liberal Party
- Gladstone - House of Commons pressed ahead w/social reforms, but met dfeeat in House of Lords. Vetoed any attmep to raise taxes on the wealthy peopel - 1911 liberal governent passed law restricting rights of House of Lords - became symbol w/no power
- Conservative Party
- Disraeli - pushed thorugh reform Bill of 1867
- Georges Boiulanger
- rallied royalist and ultranationalists eager for revenge on Germany - commited suicide when accused of plotting to overthrow the republic
- reform Act of 1842
- working conditions started to be regulated in factories --> women and children could only work 10 hr days
- Paris Commune
- 1871 = uprising - Goal: save republic from royalists. rebels wre called communards
- reform Act of 1832, Social Welfare Laws, reform act of 1867
- expanded electorate, gave health and unemployment insurance to working class citizens, gave working class men the right to vote and established secret ballot
- Corn Laws and Slavery
- high tarrifs on imported grain and abolished salvery in all Birtish colonies
- Fabian Society
- promoted change and reofrm thorugh legal rather than violent ways
- Emmeline Pankhurst, Womens Suffrage
- leadiung suffragist who thought aggrexive way was only way - She would interrupt speakers in Parliament w/things such as "VOtes for Women!" Held petitions and huge public demonstrations - arrested and jailed, given right to vote in later 20th century
- Catholic Emancipation Act of 1829
- granted Irsih the right to vote and hold government office.
- Provisional, Coalition, libel, and premier
- temporary (3rd Republic), alliances w/various parties, the knowing publication of false and damaging statements, and prime minister