Ch21Reforms And Revolutions Before 1848

Question 1

Corn laws (and revision)

Answer 1

British: governing important and export of grain, revised in 1815 to prohibit import of foreign grain

Benefit rich by making food price high for middle class

Question 2

Reform bill of 1832

Answer 2

Major British political reforms that allowed number of male voters to go up 30% and gave political representation to industrial areas

conflicts building in Britain temporarily resolved

Question 3

People’s charter of 1838

Answer 3

Movement that inspired pressed British elites for yet more radical reform

liberal constitution

Not democratic, only some could vote

Question 4

Great famine

Answer 4

Result of 4 years of potato crop fail I’m late 1840s I’m Ireland

Shattered pattern of Irish pop. Growth

Question 5

Louis XVIII (18)

Answer 5

Granted constitutional charter(liberal constitution): protected economic and social gains made by middle class and peasants in Fr rev.

Intellectual and artistic freedom

Refused to bow to rich’s wishes

Old aristocracy was minority in voting population now

Question 6

Charles X (10)

Answer 6

Conservative

True reactionary

Wanted to reestablish old order in France

Took army and fought to get more land

Conquest of Algeria marked rebirth of Fr colonial expansion

Refused constitutional charter

Issue decree stripping middle class of voting rights & censor press

Charles fled

Question 7

Why did the latent conflict in Britain between the aristocracy and the working class become an open conflict in 1815?

Answer 7

The passage of the 1815 revisions to the corn laws

Question 8

Alexander Ypsilanti

Answer 8

Led Greek open revolt

General in Russian army