World History, February 16

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1 World History, February 16 Entry Task: (next slide) Announcements: - If you can find your notes from Thursday, please take those out (you do not need to turn these in, FYI). We ll add pros and cons to this page. - Google expedition form please return signed by THURSDAY. - If we have time today, we ll vote!

2 What style of play is best for an athletic team, to play like capitalists or communists? Each take a role at your table (some will have to double up): - argue from a player's perspective - from a coach's perspective - from a fan's perspective - from a T.V. executive's perspective

3 Pros and Cons: Capitalism PROS (advantages) CONS (disadvantages)

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6 Advantages: You can own property Individuals can prosper/competition for wages Freedom of speech, press, religion Embrace ethnic diversity Makes the individual work worth something Disadvantages: Poverty Not everyone has healthcare Monopolies- control too much business Creates inequalities (ex: rich vs poor, have vs have not)

7 World History, February 17 Entry Task: We need to finish the chart about pros/cons of communism (You can keep this paper to help you study later). Announcements: - FYI Registration NEXT Wednesday, Feb 24 - Test - next Friday, maybe? - Google expedition form please return signed by THURSDAY. - We ll vote tomorrow!

8 Pros and Cons: Communism PROS (advantages) CONS (disadvantages)

9 Advantages: Everyone gets something (equal) No unemployment Healthcare for all citizens Cooperation of the people (work for the country to benefit) Disadvantages: Abuse of power Restrictions- no freedom of speech, press, no religious practices Censorship Against ethnic diversity Government controls property- very little if any, could own private property Individual doesn t compete, in some ways lazy and does not need to strive for more

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11 Why doesn t Britain have a Communist Revolution? REFORM IN BRITAIN

12 Karl Marx believed that England was ripe for a proletarian revolution.

13 PARLIAMENT House of LORDS House of COMMONS Hereditary Nobility & Church Leaders Elected (LIMITED Suffrage - right to vote)

14 PROPERTY REQUIREMENTS TO VOTE & HOLD OFFICE Photo by stu_spivack

15 House of Commons Dominated by LANDOWNERS

16 ROTTEN BOROUGHS

17 bor ough ˈbərō A district, town, or administrative unit Photo by Donald Lee Pardue

18 1912 Presidential Election Which states had the most electoral votes in 1912?

19 2012 Presidential Election Where had the U.S. population shifted by 2012?

20 Parliamentary districts did not reflect the population shifts caused by the Industrial Revolution.

21 POLITICAL PARTIES TORIES WHIGS (Conservatives) (Liberals) Landed Gentry Businessmen

22 Rotten Boroughs allowed the Tories to control Parliament.

23 AND ENRICH THEMSELVES

24 Corn Laws (1815) Protective Tariff on foreign wheat Corn

25 PRICES Corn

26 The Corn Laws enriched the landed gentry at the expense of everyone else.

27 1 / 12 of adult males could vote before 1832.

28 I really need to VOTE!

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30 Reform ACT of 1832 Redistricting to reflect population shifts Rotten Boroughs

31 Reform ACT of 1832 Suffrage for the urban middle class (lowered property requirements)

32 1/6 of adult males could vote after the 1832 Act.

33 5/6 STILL COULD NOT

34 NO SUFFRAGE for the WORKING CLASS

35 CONSERVATIVE LEADERS Resisted Working Class Agitation.

36 Peterloo MASSACRE 1819 The cavalry charged into a working class protest, killing 15 and injuring hundreds.

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38 CHARTISTS Working class activists who supported the People s Charter

39 SIX POINTS of CHARTISM 1. UNIVERSAL MALE SUFFRAGE 2. EQUAL-SIZED electoral districts 3. Voting by SECRET BALLOT 4. NO PROPERTY QUALIFICATION 5. PAY for members of Parliament 6. ANNUAL ELECTIONS of Parliament

40 1.3 million Signatures on the 1839 People s Charter

41 The House of Commons did not accept the petition.

42 DEMONSTRATIONS

43 Chartist Mural in Newport

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50 GREAT CHARTIST (1848) MEETING

51 Chartists

52 Attendance estimates: Chartists: 300,000 Government: 15,000 Sun. Observer 50,000

53 SIX POINTS of CHARTISM 1. UNIVERSAL MALE SUFFRAGE 2. EQUAL-SIZED electoral districts 3. Voting by SECRET BALLOT 4. NO PROPERTY QUALIFICATION 5. PAY for members of Parliament 6. ANNUAL ELECTIONS of Parliament

54 Short term NOT ACTED UPON LONG term All but annual elections eventually took effect.

55 ANTI-CORN LAW LEAGUE Both liberals and radicals opposed the Corn Laws.

56 ANTI-CORN LAW LEAGUE Radical LIBERAL Opposition Opposition Lower Grain Prices Cheaper Food Pay Workers Less

57 IRISH POTATO FAMINE

58 IRISH POTATO FAMINE

59 HOW can Parliament keep the price of corn artificially high when people are STARVING?

60 Sir Robert PEEL Peel s administration re-peeled the Corn Laws (get it?).

61 REFORM FROM above RADICAL AGITATION

62 Reform measures Passed by Parliament in lieu of Chartist proposals MINES ACT 1842 CORN LAWS REPEALED 1846 TEN HOUR ACT 1847

63 ENGELS TO BRITISH WORKERS In order to divert you from the People s Charter, the only goal important to you, they spawn all sorts of projects for superficial reforms. -- Friedrich Engels, Marxist

64 Reform > Revolution Parliament s willingness to pass modest reforms saved Britain from the revolutionary upheavals that happened on the continent.

65 ULTIMATELY Workers just want more money

66 AND FOOD

67 NOT A REVOLUTION

68 HMPH