User:Atcovi/History/Dem Reforms 19C Britian

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 * Britain Enacts Reforms
 * Many demands from people to improve industrial life in Britain.
 * Britain becomes a constitutional monarchy in the late 1600s.
 * Monarch serves as head of state
 * Parliament holds real power
 * Parliament consists of a House of Lords (traditionally, inherit or appointed--change in 1999, abolish the right of hereditary peers to inherit a seat in House of Lords) and a House of Commons (elected).
 * In the early 1800s, 5% of the population (men who owned a lot of lands) was allowed to vote for House of Commons, thus: upper class ruled government.
 * The Reform Bill of 1832
 * Proposed by the wealthy middle class: Protests erupted in England in favor of a bill that would extend the right to vote.
 * Revolution of 1830 in France frightened the government, so the bill of 1832 was passed.
 * Reform Bill of 1832: Eased property requirements, well-to-do men in the middle class could vote, modernized districts for electing Parliament members and new industrial cities were given more representation.
 * Chartist Movement
 * Reform Bill did not truly solve the voting problem
 * A group, consisting of men who could still not vote, presented a petition known as the The People's Charter of 1838 to Parliament.
 * Suffrage for all men
 * Annual Parliament elections
 * Parliament rejected the reformations (see section below: "Reformations").
 * BUT: Protests convinced. Parliament gave in (see section below: "Parliament's additions").
 * Annual Parliament elections
 * Parliament rejected the reformations (see section below: "Reformations").
 * BUT: Protests convinced. Parliament gave in (see section below: "Parliament's additions").

Reformations

 * Votes were not secret
 * Parliament earned no money
 * Responsive to lower class

Parliament's additions

 * 1) 1867 - Working-class men the right to vote.
 * 2) 1884 - Rural-workers the right to vote.
 * Victorian Age
 * Queen Victora: presided over these changes.
 * Age 18 in 1837: Rose to the throne.
 * Queen for over 60 years.
 * Victorian Age: British Empire was at its peak (in terms of wealth and power).
 * Popular queen, but was forced to accept a less powerful role in the monarchy.
 * After Victoria: Shifts to Democracy.
 * Women Get the Vote
 * 1890 - All men could vote, women couldn't. Women demanded the same.
 * Origination and Resistance
 * Both in the UK and England, women worked for the right to vote. Women in the UK organized reforms societies and protested. Though, these protests were met with criticism:
 * Women voting would totally change tradition.
 * Women lack the ability to vote in politics.
 * Militant Protests
 * Peaceful protests did not satisfy a few women.
 * Emmeline Pankhurst: Women's Social and Political Union (1903)
 * Militant group for women's rights.
 * Goal: Draw attention to women suffrage.
 * Emmeline Pankhurst and her daughters were arrested many times... when in jail, they would go on hunger strikes to keep their movement alive. Force-fedding took place.
 * Although women suffrage was prevalent in history from 1880 to 1914, success wasn't achieved yet.
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 * Goal: Draw attention to women suffrage.
 * Emmeline Pankhurst and her daughters were arrested many times... when in jail, they would go on hunger strikes to keep their movement alive. Force-fedding took place.
 * Although women suffrage was prevalent in history from 1880 to 1914, success wasn't achieved yet.
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