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