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!
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
Pros and Cons: Capitalism PROS (advantages) CONS (disadvantages)
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)
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!
Pros and Cons: Communism PROS (advantages) CONS (disadvantages)
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
Why doesn t Britain have a Communist Revolution? REFORM IN BRITAIN 1815-1848
Karl Marx believed that England was ripe for a proletarian revolution.
PARLIAMENT House of LORDS House of COMMONS Hereditary Nobility & Church Leaders Elected (LIMITED Suffrage - right to vote)
PROPERTY REQUIREMENTS TO VOTE & HOLD OFFICE Photo by stu_spivack
House of Commons Dominated by LANDOWNERS
ROTTEN BOROUGHS
bor ough ˈbərō A district, town, or administrative unit Photo by Donald Lee Pardue
1912 Presidential Election Which states had the most electoral votes in 1912?
2012 Presidential Election Where had the U.S. population shifted by 2012?
Parliamentary districts did not reflect the population shifts caused by the Industrial Revolution.
POLITICAL PARTIES TORIES WHIGS (Conservatives) (Liberals) Landed Gentry Businessmen
Rotten Boroughs allowed the Tories to control Parliament.
AND ENRICH THEMSELVES
Corn Laws (1815) Protective Tariff on foreign wheat Corn
PRICES Corn
The Corn Laws enriched the landed gentry at the expense of everyone else.
1 / 12 of adult males could vote before 1832.
I really need to VOTE!
Reform ACT of 1832 Redistricting to reflect population shifts Rotten Boroughs
Reform ACT of 1832 Suffrage for the urban middle class (lowered property requirements)
1/6 of adult males could vote after the 1832 Act.
5/6 STILL COULD NOT
NO SUFFRAGE for the WORKING CLASS
CONSERVATIVE LEADERS Resisted Working Class Agitation.
Peterloo MASSACRE 1819 The cavalry charged into a working class protest, killing 15 and injuring hundreds.
CHARTISTS 1838-1850 Working class activists who supported the People s Charter
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
1.3 million Signatures on the 1839 People s Charter
The House of Commons did not accept the petition.
DEMONSTRATIONS 1838-1848
Chartist Mural in Newport 1978-2013
GREAT CHARTIST (1848) MEETING
Chartists
Attendance estimates: Chartists: 300,000 Government: 15,000 Sun. Observer 50,000
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
Short term NOT ACTED UPON LONG term All but annual elections eventually took effect.
ANTI-CORN LAW LEAGUE Both liberals and radicals opposed the Corn Laws.
ANTI-CORN LAW LEAGUE Radical LIBERAL Opposition Opposition Lower Grain Prices Cheaper Food Pay Workers Less
IRISH POTATO FAMINE 1845-1852
IRISH POTATO FAMINE 1845-1852
HOW can Parliament keep the price of corn artificially high when people are STARVING?
Sir Robert PEEL Peel s administration re-peeled the Corn Laws (get it?).
REFORM FROM above RADICAL AGITATION
Reform measures Passed by Parliament in lieu of Chartist proposals MINES ACT 1842 CORN LAWS REPEALED 1846 TEN HOUR ACT 1847
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
Reform > Revolution Parliament s willingness to pass modest reforms saved Britain from the revolutionary upheavals that happened on the continent.
ULTIMATELY Workers just want more money
AND FOOD
NOT A REVOLUTION
HMPH