INDUSTRIALISATION

• The one where Pitt and the King are just friends

  1783-1801, Pitt is the first Tory
• The one where Addington adds up

  1801-04, Did taxes
• The one where Pitt dies

  1804-06
• The one where Grenville ends racism


  1806-07, Ministry of all talents ends the slave trade
• The one with nothing

  1807-09, Portland is old
• The one where Percival dies

  1809-12, frame breaking then gets noscoped
• The one with the repression


  1812-27 - Lord Liverpool hates freedom
• The one with Spain and Portugal

  1827 - Canning's stroke n' choke
• The one where Goderich cries


  1827-28 - Goderich does Sliding scale and test/corp repeal
• The one with Peel

  1828-30 - Wellington is an Ultra-Tory, but Peel does Met force and Catholic Emancipation and Penal code
• The one with the Tea

  1830-34 Earl Grey does lots of reforms
• The one with the affairs

  1834 - Melbourne gets cheated on XD
• The return of the Mack

  1834 - Wellington comes back and be's old
• The one with the manifesto

  1834-35 - Peel's minority does the Tamworth manifesto
• The one with ANOTHER affair

  1835-41 - Melbourne comes back, queen fancies him, tries to resign
• The one where Peel's the man

  1841-46, RePEEL of Corn Laws, chartists and stuff
• The one where chaos starts with boring

  1846-52 Russel is ineffective and weak, abolishes navigation acts
• The one with the owl

  1852, Derby's 'Who, Who?' Ministry
• The one in Scotland and Ukraine

  1852-55, Aberdeen manages the Crimean War (Whig-Peelite coalition)
• The one with foreign policy

  1855-58, Palmerston (Whig) reduces corruption, ends Indian Mutiny
• The one where Palmerston is rudely interrupted


  1858-59, Derby with no majority
• The one where Palmerston dies


  1859-65, Majority (Whig-peelite-liberal), few reforms, Civil War, 2nd Opium War
• The one with the split

  1865-66, Russel (whig-peelite-liberal-radical), Gladstone splits libs with reform bill
• The one with the show-up

  1866-68 (Derby), Disraeli does Gladstone's reform Act. 1.3m new voters.
• The quick one


  1868 (one month with Disraeli)
• The one with the liberalism

  1868-74 (liberal party) with Gladstone, "peace, retrenchment and reform"
• The one where reform happens


  1874-80, Disraeli does houses, PHA, Factories, hates Ireland
• The last one :'(

  1880-85, Gladstone does 3rd reform act (+6m), Irish Land Act, hates Ireland
• What is Patronage?


  The King's ability to give privileges or make appointments - giving him considerable political power.

  
• What government was Britain in the late 18th Century?

  Mixed constitution / constitutional monarchy

  
• Who was Britain's monarch in 1783?

  King George III

  
• When was the Bill of Rights passed, making King James II below Parliament?

  1689
• What was the Civil List?

  The way Parliament allocated funds paid to individuals, such as the King, making him financially reliant on appeasing the Parliament
• What was the Privy Council?

  members of the nobility which helpedgovern the country

  - monitored Parliament, Justices of Peace and oversawlaw and order

  
• What happened in 1782?

  The King was forced by Parliament (after the loss of America) to accept the resignation of Lord North, PM and his replacement with Lord Rockingham.

  
• Where was Pitt in Earl of Shelburne's government (following Rockingham)

  The Chancellor of the Exchequer

  
• How big was the franchise in 1783?

  250,000 men in England and Wales - with no universal system

  
• Types of Boroughs


  Potwalloper (own a hearth), Freemen, Scot and lot (vote if you paid a local tax), Corporation (mayor and members), Pocket (all one landowner), Rotten (2 MPs for few voters.

  
• What was national debt?

  A long term debt set up in 1696 to meet the high cost of wars - loans from the Bank of England to the government (sudden increase in 1793)

  
• What was the sinking fund?


  A saving scheme used to pay off the National Debt, which had money from taxation paid into it