Keywords Flashcards
Autocracy
When power is concentrated in one persons hands
Boroughs
Were constituencies in towns
Coalition
Was an alliance between two or more political groups
Commons
Is an elected part of parliament
Counties
Were constituencies in the countryside
Dissenters
Were Protestants who broke away from the established church
Divine right
Is a concept that a monarch rules by authority of god, not through consent of the people
Famine
What the government feared
Franchise
Who could vote
Fox (Charles James )
A political opponent of Pitt
Freemen
People who had been given the freedom of a city or borough
Factions
Were small groups of politicians who disagreed with each other
Glorious revolution
Redefined the relationship between the king and parliament
George iii
King 1760-1820
Industrial Revolution
Economic change that took place between 1750-1850 Britain
Landowners
Were the group of people who dominated parliament
Monarch
Who could choose prime minister
Mixed or constitutional
A form of government in which a hereditary monarch is head of state with powers limited by parliament
Oligarchy
A government in the hands of a small and elite group
Patronage
Controlling which individuals are given power
Pitt the younger
Prime minister 1783-1801 1804-1806
Prerogative
Special right or privilege
Rotten boroughs
Boroughs with only a few voters
Radical
Someone who wanted to see big changes in the political system
