WHAP 5.10

• Maritime trade, railroads, and telegraph -further reach
• Mercantilism to capitalism
• Size and makeup of middle class changed: occupations added, management of factories banks, etc
• Capitalists: highest of upper class
• Political Movements: always connected to the interests of the growing middle class and working class
• Not just general natural rights, but specific rights that are recognized by gov
• Voting franchise increase (males)
• All policy reforms: size and influence of the middle class
• Middle Class: large and Econ significant- democracy
• Middle class: small and insignificant- dictatorship
• reforms to stop socialist and radicals (Germany, Bismark)
• emergence of Political parties that represented the working class