Age of Metternich Flashcards
The eastern question
What do we do about revolutions?
Laissez faire
Government doesn’t mess with the economy
Corn laws
Tariff to slow down imports of foreign grain; benefited land aristocracy
St peterloo’s massacre
People protest in Manchester in peter’s field and the army killed people while trying to disperse it
6 acts
Anti worker laws that eliminated mass meetings and outlawed criticizing the government
Cato street conspiracy
Group of radical liberals wanting to blow up parliament; met on Cato street; led by Arthur thistlewood
Arthur thistlewood
Leader of the Cato street conspiracy
Reform bill of 1832
Most pivotal turning point of the British reform; gave votes based on population and gave more power to the rural votes, not aristocracy
Rotten Burroughs
Burroughs that lost population bc of the enclosure movement
Robert peel
Formed bobbies
Bobbies
Community friendly police force formed by Robert peel
Transportation system
Prisoners were exiled from Britain
Test acts
Excluded Catholics; passed in the time of James I
Anti corn law league
Manufacturers and industrial workers against corn laws
Charles X
Ruler of France who tried to substitute liberalism for nationalism; invade Algeria