The poor part of the society ...
The Tories feared that the "uneducated" masses of the people could gain more power with the Great Reform Bill. However, many supported reform in England, ...
With the emergence of the working class and the middle class, there was a problem of representation ...
William Blake's poem, London, was part of the Romantic movement, ...
George Canning supported the South American colonies' revolutions because ...
The positive outcomes of the Napoleonic wars in Britain were ...
The Industrial Revolution in Britain brought about ...
There was social unrest in most part of the society because ...
The importance of the Great Reform Bill of 1832 was that ...
The rich and the aristocracy ...
The Peterloo massacre, which took place in St Peter's Field, ...
The Great Reform Bill of 1832 proposed ...
The negative outcomes of the Napoleonic wars were ...
The Regency Period officially began in 1811 until 1820 when the Prince Regent ...
In parliament, the Tories tried always to preserve status quo and order and stop change, ...
the constant fear of revolution from the wealthy part of the society and Economic depression brought by war.
new social and economic groups (the working class and middle class), urbanization in the north of Britain (for example, Manchester), as well as prosperity and misery.
such as the middle class, the working class, the Whigs, some 'Enlightened' Tories and some radicals.
was the peak of the social unrest because armed forces brutally suppresed thousands of unarmed people. It was ironically called Peterloo in relation to the Waterloo battle, in which Napoleon was defeated by armed forces.
ruled England in the place of his father, the King George III, who went permanently insane. This period is characterized for the development of the arts and science, great financial instability and huge differences among social classes.
there were poor working conditions; there was no representation of the middle class; and there was harsh repression by the government because they feared revolution.
it was a compromise between two powerful groups the aristocracy/gentry and the factory owners/middle class. As a consequence, the middle class is welcomed in the political system and revolution is avoided.
which believed that there was injustice in England and that the French Revolution was an example to follow.
the effort of war, which gave impetus towards the Industrial Revolution; that there was no more "other" across the channel since France was defeated; that Britain rose as the most powerful nation of Europe, establishing mastery of the seas; and territorial gains.
was composed of Irish immigrants, who came to England because there was neither enough land nor industry in Ireland, and people that came from the english countryside to work in factories, mills and coalmines under terrible working conditions. (even children)
whereas the Whigs would push for reform since they realized that something had to be changed.
the British wanted to trade with the Latin American colonies without the interference from Spain.
because the House of Commons only represented the big land owners.
were not upset by the war, apart from the fact that they could not travel abroad. Their lifestyle was reflected on the popular novels by Jane Austen such as Pride and Prejudice, Emma, and Sense and Sensibility.
to abolish the rotten boroughs and gave representation to the new big cities. It also enfranchised the middle class, whose qualification was the amount they paid in rents (the qualification for voting used to be land).