1. QUIZ MONDAY 9.1-9.4 Thursday. 2nd/3rd Period – Prepare for battle!
4th/5th/6th Period
Get your clickers
Chart Reference
9.3 Notes
Random Fact of the Day
The average tree in metropolitan area survives only about 8 years!

2. QUESTION 1
One of the overriding principles of the congresses of Aix-la-Chapelle, Troppau, and Verona by Austrian Prime Minister Metternich was
The necessity to implement constitutional reforms to save the monarchs of Europe
The need to isolate France and force it to be regular with its indemnity payments
How to fairly distribute the spoils of war taken from France at the Congress of Vienna
The importance of gaining an agreement on a collective security arrangement from the Great Powers that would stamp out revolutionary uprisings in Europe
The necessity of working-class representation in the governments of Europe

3. Question 2
Which of the following was a result of the Decembrist Revolt (1825)?
Greece gained its independence
Charles X abdicated the throne and escaped to England
Belgium gained its independence
Nicholas I crushed all opposition to him and ruled like a tyrant
Alexander II freed the serfs

4. Liberalism Something Different.
9.3

5. Characteristics of Liberalism
The political outgrowth of the Enlightenment
Believe in…
Liberty of the individual
Equal rights
Government should protect natural rights

6. Characteristics of Liberalism
DON’T BELIEVE IN PURE DEMOCRACY AND UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE
Most identify with the bourgeoisie (middle class)
Believe voting rights shouldn’t be extended to the lower classes

7. Liberalism in Economics
Economics becomes known as the “dismal science”
Adam Smith – Wealth of Nations
David Ricardo
“iron law of wages”
More kids keeps the supply of workers up and wages down
Poverty is impossible to remove

8. Thomas Malthus
Population vs. food supply

9. Classical Liberal Thought
Utilitarianism – Jeremy Bentham
Every law should help the greatest amount of people at the greatest possible amount
John Stuart Mill – On Liberty (1859)
A person should be free as long as it doesn’t infringe on someone else’s freedom
Government’s purpose
Absolute freedom of opinion to be protected from both government censorship and tyranny of majority

10. Impact of Liberalism Revolutionary Movements Written Constitutions
Zollverein – 1834
Economic union of 17 German states which eliminated internal tariffs and established free trade
Free trade was a liberal idea

12. How About That It’s Friday.
9.3 Notes
DBQ Exercise (4th, 5th, 6th)
This weekend – 9.4 Podcast
Monday – Quiz
Random Fact of the Day
Most trees are tall.

13. Liberal Reform in England
Slow but steady changes…

14. 1820-1830 in England Parliament runs the show, led by Prime Minister
Young Tories control the government
Reforms (write a few of these)
Abandon Concert of Europe
Reformed prisons/criminal code
Allowed labor unions
Established the “Bobbies”
Test Act repealed
HAD banned non-Anglicans from office
Civil rights for Catholics

15. 1830 and Onward Led by Earl Grey, leader of Whigs
Develops British national character

16. Reform Bill of 1832 Spurred on by a recent cholera epidemic
People need more proactive government
Provisions
Increased number of voters from 6% to 12%
Kept a property qualification for the franchise
Eliminated rotten boroughs
House of Commons > House of Lords

17. LAWS TO PROTECT FACTORY WORKERS
PARLIAMENT CREATES
LAWS TO PROTECT FACTORY WORKERS
Parliament’s Actions
Factory Act of 1833
Limitations on working hours
Destroyed pattern of families working together
Mines Act of 1842
No kids in mines
Factory Act of 1847
No boys/women in factory over ten hours

18. Chartism – Union in Politics
Political movement in England which fights for democracy among all people
Six Points
Movement fails but all measures will eventually be adopted

19. Other Parliamentary Things
Corn Laws repealed in 1846
Navigation Laws repealed in 1849
All goods had to be brought in to England with British ships
The official end to mercantilism
BIG POINT: BECAUSE OF THESE SMALL BUT STEADY CHANGES, THERE WAS LIMITED INTERNAL UNREST IN ENGLAND FROM , UNLIKE THE REST OF THE CONTINENT OF EUROPE