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Keywords Flashcards

1
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Autocracy

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When power is concentrated in one persons hands

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Boroughs

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Were constituencies in towns

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Coalition

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Was an alliance between two or more political groups

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Commons

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Is an elected part of parliament

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Counties

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Were constituencies in the countryside

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Dissenters

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Were Protestants who broke away from the established church

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Divine right

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Is a concept that a monarch rules by authority of god, not through consent of the people

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Famine

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What the government feared

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Franchise

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Who could vote

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Fox (Charles James )

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A political opponent of Pitt

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Freemen

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People who had been given the freedom of a city or borough

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Factions

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Were small groups of politicians who disagreed with each other

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Glorious revolution

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Redefined the relationship between the king and parliament

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George iii

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King 1760-1820

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Industrial Revolution

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Economic change that took place between 1750-1850 Britain

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Landowners

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Were the group of people who dominated parliament

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Monarch

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Who could choose prime minister

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Mixed or constitutional

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A form of government in which a hereditary monarch is head of state with powers limited by parliament

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Oligarchy

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A government in the hands of a small and elite group

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Patronage

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Controlling which individuals are given power

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Pitt the younger

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Prime minister 1783-1801 1804-1806

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Prerogative

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Special right or privilege

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Rotten boroughs

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Boroughs with only a few voters

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Radical

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Someone who wanted to see big changes in the political system

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Tories

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A party against political reform

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Taxation

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An important source of income for the government

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Whigs

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A autocratic political party who believe in the power of parliament over the king

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