Unit 5: Economy Flashcards
Task 1: Visit the site of the Commonwealth and try to buy some of its publications. How much do they cost? Why do you think this is so?
-40 pounds
-They want to be exclusive and they say they want to give the money to developing countries
Read the following text about The Doomsday Book from the BBc History website and answer the following questions:
a) What is the Doomsday Book?
-The earliest public record (1085-1086)
-a legal document that describes landholdings and resources of late 11th-century England
-renamed to National Archives
b) When and how was it compiled?
It was compiled 1085 and it is based on a survey that King William I ordered.
c) Why do you think it was called so?
-It’s named after God’s final day of judgement
- when every soul should be assessed, there is no appeal against
d) What could be its uses for King William the Conqueror?
-It was made so that the king knows how much land and cattle he owned. How much “dues” the habitants had.
-it was used for administrative and legal purposes
-Accurate information about military and other resources, because Denmark and Norway threatened
e) Which is the main difference from previous forms of government and administration?
-England had a sophisticated administration system (Anglo-Saxons) with shire-countries
-well-functioning tax system
-the first written proof of landholdings everyone can look at it
Watch the following video on “The Boston Tea Party” and answer the following questions:
a) What is the relevance of the Boston Tea Party for the American Revolution?
-It sparked the American Revolution
-Americans put taxes for import on tea
-Acts from the UK which angered colonists for taxing them, despite the lack of representation in Parliament
b) What was the purpose of passing the Tea Act?
-The East Indian Company should sell tea to America without taxes.
-to sell tea for lower prices than those of the colonists and smugglers
c) Who organized it?
-1773-tea shipment in Boston
-John Hancock and Samuel Adams
d) What was the reaction of the British Government?
-Criticism from Britain
- colonial government in Britain closed the port of Boston
American Independence
Watch the following video on the Industrial Revolution and find out why the first Industrial Revolution occurred in England and answer the question below:
a) When did the consumer society begin in Britain and how was it related to democratic ideas?
-1750’s in Britain: industrial Revolution was sparked
-it was made to create desire in the population
-expensive china-ware was suddenly affordable due to mass production
-democratic because before it was only for the rich and with mass production, everyone could buy it
b) Which where the environmental effects of the Industrial revolution?
Pollution of the air through the smoke of the chimneys everything was black
c) What was the pivotal industry of the Industrial Revolution in Britain?
Cotton was revolutionised
d) What was the relevance of the British club in the Industrial Revolution?
Club combined:
1. Lock up into private world to think and develop new ideas
2. Being friendly and socialising and combined people and classes that would never meet: crafts men and business men
Read the following introduction to Neoliberalism and answer the following questions.
a) What is the difference between political and economic liberalism?
political
Strategy to prevent social conflict, as opposed to conservative or right wing
Individual freedom, government doesn’t dictate personal choices
economical
No restrictions on manufacturing, no barriers to commerce
Free trade, no interventions of the government
Liberal in the sense of no controls
Old liberalism: abolition of government intervention in economic matters
New liberalism: full employment is necessary -governments and banks intervene
